The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry, convened an executive board meeting on Tuesday at the organization’s headquarters in Lausanne ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
The Winter Games will run from February 6-22 at sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy.
“It’s been a busy time of the year, and we are gonna walk through in here a little bit of progress on fit for the future and where we are to date. There has been a lot of travel in the past week. I was in Europe for the European evening of sports in Brussels, as well as the Olympic Flame lighting, as well as the arrival of the flame in Italy a few days ago, which was wonderful,” said Kirsty Coventry, the IOC President.
The Milan Cortina Olympics will also be held amid ongoing bans of most Russian athletes due to the war in Ukraine, and with the war in Gaza still fresh in mind.
Two years after the 2026 World Cup, the U.S. will host the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles despite Coventry having not yet met with Trump.
The Feb. 6-22 Games venue plan includes: skating sports in Milan; freestyle and snowboarding in Livigno; men’s Alpine skiing and ski mountaineering in Bormio; Nordic sports in Val di Fiemme; biathlon in Anterselva; and women’s Alpine skiing, curling and sliding in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Source: Africanews
