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,

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.

In Sochi, workers were still hammering away in the media village and shower water ran yellow when journalists from around the world arrived for the 2014

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 )

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