ROME (AP) — The track's essential structure is done. The ice is being prepared. And next week, 60 athletes are slated to test the controversial sliding center for next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics.

MILAN (AP) — The controversial sliding center being completely rebuilt for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics is starting to take shape as the clock ticks down to a March deadline. The outline of the ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- 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 Winter Games. The ...

ROME — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, he did so in a sort of tunnel ...

MUMBAI, India -- Bobsled, skeleton and luge events will not be held in Italy during the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, organizing committee officials said Monday, meaning those athletes will likely be ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, March 25 (Reuters) - A group of Olympic athletes got their first chance on Tuesday to test the track at the new sliding centre that will host events at the Winter Games next ...

Sliding sports at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games will take place outside Italy after plans to redevelop the Eugenio Monti track in Cortina d'Ampezzo were abandoned, its President Giovanni Malagò ...