2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
IOC criticized for selling Berlin 1936 shirts linked to Nazi propaganda
The IOC faced criticism for selling a T-shirt featuring artwork from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a Games used by Adolf Hitler for Nazi propaganda, after the item sold out from the official Olympic online shop as part of the Olympic Heritage Collection.
Olympic Media Notes: Spidercam amazes fans during hockey games
The Spidercam has been the real star of the men’s hockey games during the Milan Cortina Games.
Milan Cortina continuing Paris’ positive vibes for Olympic movement
As the Milan Cortina Games enter Week 2, it is clear that the biggest comeback at the Olympics is the Olympics itself.
Team USA enters Week 2 in Milan on pace to surpass 2022 medal count
Team USA through Sunday has won a total of 17 medals at the Milan Cortina Games, putting them on track to surpass easily the 25 they earned four years ago in Beijing.
In recent years, the International Olympic Committee has focused on making hosting more sustainable, encouraging use of existing venues and fitting the Games to the location, rather than the other way around.
Enter Milan Cortina and the first truly regional Games. The events of the Olympics and Paralympics held there will span much of Northern Italy, some of them hundreds of miles apart. Organizers prioritized using existing venues, including ones that routinely host world cups and other international competition, and temporary venues.
The spread of the Games takes snow sports, which are often concentrated in a mountain cluster, and sprinkles them throughout the Dolomites. Transit from Milan is expected to take 5 to 10 hours, leading to the most siloed Games anyone has seen.
Olympics Preview: Can the Winter Games deliver?
The Olympics open Feb. 6 and the Paralympics a month later with the potential of generating interest in a movement that hasn’t had a Games in a North American-friendly time zone in 16 years.
Paralympics head to Italy looking for more sponsors to champion Games
Departure of Toyota, Bridgestone has left vacuum and opportunity for other brands at Paralympics.
Olympics Preview: Most marketable athletes
Most marketable athletes at the upcoming Milan-Cortina Games
Dream assignments: Rebecca Lowe will host both the Olympics and the World Cup in 2026
Rebecca Lowe, the face of soccer in America on NBC’s Premier League studio show, will host both the Olympics and the World Cup in the same calendar year.
IOC criticized for selling Berlin 1936 shirts linked to Nazi propaganda
The IOC faced criticism for selling a T-shirt featuring artwork from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, a Games used by Adolf Hitler for Nazi propaganda, after the item sold out from the official Olympic online shop as part of the Olympic Heritage Collection.
Olympic Media Notes: Spidercam amazes fans during hockey games
The Spidercam has been the real star of the men’s hockey games during the Milan Cortina Games.
Milan Cortina continuing Paris’ positive vibes for Olympic movement
As the Milan Cortina Games enter Week 2, it is clear that the biggest comeback at the Olympics is the Olympics itself.
Team USA enters Week 2 in Milan on pace to surpass 2022 medal count
Team USA through Sunday has won a total of 17 medals at the Milan Cortina Games, putting them on track to surpass easily the 25 they earned four years ago in Beijing.
Women’s hockey highlights strength of Olympic ties to collegiate sport
In the Winter Olympics, where ties to collegiate sports are not as deep as in the Summer Games, women's hockey stands as an example of the growth and impact of that connection.
U.S. Ski and Snowboard launches campaign to fund developing young athletes
U.S. Ski and Snowboard has launched a $65 million campaign to help fund the development of young athletes.
Is a rotation of Olympic hosts the solution to climate, sustainability challenges?
Changes the International Olympic Committee is reviewing for the Winter Games could include rotating permanent hosts. The IOC's own studies show a diminishing number of national Olympic committees with the necessary venues able to host the Olympics and Paralympics due to climate change.
Fans told to take down Greenland flag during Denmark-U.S. game
Two fans who were waving a Greenland flag during the Denmark-U.S. men’s hockey game on Saturday were told by venue staff that they could not continue to hold up the flag.
The tech tool helping the USOPC project podium probabilities in Milan Cortina
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has its own proprietary analysis of data from Gracenote that allows it to update medal projections throughout the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Team USA struggling to meet gold expectations at Games
Team USA sit at 5 gold medals after Sunday’s competition and 17 medals overall, putting them 3rd on the medal count.
I will say, as I look at the calendar and the amount that we need to get done really over the next two months ... I think we need to now move toward the next-level sense of urgency.-- NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, on how the WNBA needs to increase the urgency to finalize a collective bargaining deal.
