The century-old sliding centre being completely rebuilt for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games is pushing the deadline so tight that the IOC has gone so far as to demand a Plan B option that would require moving bobsleigh,

Olympic curling champion Eve Muirhead believes Milan-Cortina 2026 will be a mix of the Winter Games’ past and future as it combines alpine resort settings with a wide geographic spread of existing venues to keep costs down.

Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy. Covering an area of more than 22,000 square kilometres (nearly 10,

The Olympic rings adorn the Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio, which will be called Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium, the venue for the curling discipline at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (AP )