Milan-Cortina, the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy
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The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy. The IOC has entrusted Milan-Cortina with the organisation of the Games. Celebrations across the whole of the Boot.
Milan-Cortina, the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy
The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy. The IOC has entrusted Milan-Cortina with the organisation of the Games. Celebrations across the whole of the Boot.
The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held in Italy. On 24 June, the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, entrusted the Milan-Cortina 2026 partnership with the organisation of the Games. The other candidate pair was Stockholm-Åre.
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The Milan-Cortina 2026 organising committee has planned a distribution of events across Lombardy, Veneto and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, so as to allow for a more sustainable event. "The focus will be on infrastructure design, resource procurement and management, and therefore on the food recovery system and waste sorting, environmental impact and renewable energy, reuse of Games assets, mobility and the workforce," said Giovanni Malagò, president of the Coni.
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The comment from the Mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala, was simply: "Taaac!", accompanied on Twitter by a photo showing him holding a pair of skis decorated with the five rings.