Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games

Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games will take place in Italy, featuring various winter sports events, including skiing, ice hockey, and figure skating. It will be the 25th Winter Olympics.

Milano Cortina 2026 Opening Ceremony, schedule, and event dates

The Opening Ceremony of Milano Cortina 2026 is scheduled to take place on 6 February 2026, with the Closing Ceremony on 22 February 2026.

While the schedule is not yet announced, competition normally begins a few days in advance of the Opening Ceremony.

New events and sports planned for Milano Cortina 2026

There are 116 events on the calendar for Milano Cortina 2026, although two have only been included provisionally. There are eight new events, with one event removed since Beijing 2022.

Ski mountaineering will make its debut at an Olympic Winter Games after a successful competition held at the Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games. Three events will be held in that sport: men’s and women’s sprints, and a mixed relay.

A mixed team event will also be introduced in skeleton, while separate men’s and women’s doubles events will be held in luge, replacing the open doubles event.

Dual moguls will be added to the programme in freestyle skiing for both women and men, while women will get an additional individual large hill ski jumping event.

The Alpine skiing mixed team parallel event has been removed as the men and women are due to compete at separate resorts; the two Alpine Combined events are provisional.

Venues of the Milano Cortina 2026 Games

Milano Cortina 2026 will be the first Olympic Games to be hosted in two cities, Milano and Cortina, two regions, Lombardia and Veneto, and two Autonomous Provinces, Trento e Bolzano, covering a total area of 22,000 km2. It will be the most geographically widespread Olympic Winter Games in history.

More than 90% of the venues to be used in 2026 already exists or will be temporary.

The main Olympic stadium, which will host the Opening Ceremony, is the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium – more commonly known as the San Siro, and home of the AC Milan and Internazionale Milano football clubs; the Arena of Verona – a Roman amphitheatre dating back two thousand years – will host the Closing Ceremony.

Alpine skiing will be split across two slopes, with the Olympia delle Tofane welcoming the women’s skiers and the Stelvio Slope in Bormio the men. Bormio will also hold ski mountaineering events.

Biathlon will take place in Rasen-Antholz, which already hosts an annual stop on the World Cup of that sport; sliding sports will take place on the Eugenio Monti track which also hosted events in 1956; and curling will be held at Cortina’s Olympic Ice Stadium, which was the main stadium in 1956. Ski Jumping, Nordic combined, and Cross Country skiing competitions will take place in Van di Fiemme.

Milan will host ice hockey, short track, and figure skating; snowboard and freestyle skiing will be held in Livigno.