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San Siro Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy, which is the home of A.C. Milan and Inter Milan. It has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadiums in ...

Verona Arena The Verona Arena ( it, Arena di Verona ) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in 30 AD. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best ...

, winter_prev =

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'' , summer_next = ''

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'' The 2026 Winter Olympics, officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games ( it, XXV Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Milano Cortina 2026 ( lld, Milano-Anpezo 2026 or ), is an upcoming international

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scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 in the Italian cities of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo beat another joint bid from Swedish cities

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–

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by 47–34 votes to be elected host cities at the 134th Session of the

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(IOC) in

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, Switzerland, on 24 June 2019. This will be the fourth Olympic Games hosted in Italy, the second for Cortina d'Ampezzo (previously hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics), and the first hosted in Milan. It will be the first Olympic Games featuring multiple host cities in an official form and will be the first

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since

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at which the opening and closing ceremonies will be held in different places. It will mark the 20th anniversary of the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

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, the most recent Olympics in Italy, and the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the first Olympics held in Italy. It will be also the last of the two consecutive Olympics to be held in Europe with

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hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics in

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Bidding

Host city selection

Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were elected as the host cities on 24 June 2019 at the 134th IOC Session in

, Switzerland. The three Italian IOC members,

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, Ivo Ferriani and

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, and two Swedish IOC members,

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and Stefan Holm, were ineligible to vote in this host city election under the rules of the Olympic Charter.

Venues

Milan Cluster

– Opening ceremonies * PalaItalia Santa Giulia – main ice hockey venue *

Palatrussardi Palatrussardi, later known as PalaVobis, PalaTucker, Mazda Palace and PalaSharp, was an indoor arena located in Milan, Italy. The seating capacity was 8,479 and it hosted concerts and sporting events. It was built in 1985 to replace two pre-exist ...

– secondary ice hockey venue * Piazza del Duomo – Medal Plaza and Live Site

Cortina d'Ampezzo Cluster

*Olimpia delle Tofane Slope – alpine skiing * South Tyrol Arena, Antholz – biathlon * Pista Eugenio Monti – bobsleigh, luge and skeleton * Stadio olimpico del ghiaccio – curling

Assago

Mediolanum Forum Mediolanum Forum (originally the Forum di Assago, formerly the FilaForum and DatchForum) is an indoor sports arena that is located in Assago, a small town 3 km outside Milan, Italy. The arena has a seating capacity of 12,700 and is primarily use ...

– figure skating, short-track speed skating

Valtellina Cluster

* Pista Stelvio,

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– alpine skiing & ski mountaineering. *Mottolino/Sitas-Tagliede/Carosello 3000,

Livigno Livigno (; local lmo, Livígn ; german: Luwin) is a town, ''comune'' and a special-administered territory in the province of Sondrio, in the region of Lombardy, Italy, located in the Italian Alps, near the Swiss border. History Livigno's firs ...

– snowboarding, freestyle skiing

Val di Fiemme Cluster

* Stadio del salto "Giuseppe Dal Ben",

Predazzo Predazzo (, literally big meadow) is a village and ''comune'' in the province of Trento, northern Italy. Predazzo is located about 58 kilometres northeast of Trento in Val di Fiemme. It is one of the main centers of Val di Fiemme (the other is ...

– ski jumping, Nordic combined *

Lago di Tesero Cross Country Stadium The Lago di Tésero Cross Country Stadium (in italian: ''Stadio del fondo di Lago di Tesero'') is a sport venue located in the village of Lago, in the municipality of Tésero (Fiemme Valley), in Trentino, northern Italy. It will host cross-count ...

Tesero Tésero (''Tiézer'' in local dialect) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located in the Val di Fiemme about northeast of Trento. The municipality of Tesero contains the ''fr ...

– cross-country skiing, Nordic combined * Ice Rink Piné, Baselga di Piné – speed skating

Verona

– closing ceremonies

Sports

''Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each discipline.'' * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * On 18 June 2021, the

issued a proposal for a new winter sport,

ski mountaineering Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipmen ...

, for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The proposal was approved during the IOC's session in Tokyo on 20 July. On 24 June, 2022,the IOC announced the final version of the program for this edition. Present in the last two editions of the Games, the mixed team event of alpine skiing was dropped from the program. This removal was done for logistical reasons, as men and women will be competing at different resorts that are very far apart. The IOC together with the FIS decided to provisionally place the combined event in both sexes in the same sport, given the low technical level and the high number of accidents during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. However, along with the three ski mountaineering events, five new events have been added to the Olympic program in four sports that were already on the program. In this way, a total of 114 events in eight sports were confirmed. *Freestyle skiing: Men's and women's dual moguls *Luge: Women's doubles. Open doubles switched to being exclusive to men only. *Ski jumping: Women's large hill individual *Ski mountaineering: Men's and Women's sprint, mixed relay *Skeleton: Mixed team

Marketing

The official emblem for the games was decided through a global online vote that opened on 6 March 2021. The two candidate emblems were unveiled at the Sanremo Music Festival 2021 by former Italian Olympic gold medallists

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and

Alberto Tomba Alberto Tomba (born 19 December 1966 in San Lazzaro di Savena) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s. At 182 cm and 90 kg, his powerful ...

and are nicknamed "Dado" and "Futura". They were both designed by

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. It is reportedly the first time that the emblem of an Olympic Games was decided by the public. The vote closed on 25 March 2021, with the winning emblem, the "Futura" emblem, announced on 30 March 2021. The official anthem of the 2026 Winter Olympics and the 2026 Winter Paralympics was announced in March 2022.

Broadcasting rights

*Australia –

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*Brazil –

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*Canada –

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*China – CMG *Japan –

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*Macau –

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*North Korea –

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*South Korea –

*United States –

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In the United States, these Games will once again be broadcast by NBCUniversal properties, as part of its US$7.75 billion contract to air the Olympics through 2032. The 2026 edition of the

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—championship game of the

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(NFL) and historically the most-watched television broadcast in the United States annually—is tentatively scheduled to be broadcast during the Winter Olympics for a second consecutive time following the Super Bowl LVI in 2022 (and the third time that NBC has held the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics on the same year after Super Bowl LII in 2018) airing during the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

. On 18 March 2021, the NFL renewed its rights to its U.S. broadcast partners through 2033, awarding NBC the Super Bowl during the Winter Olympic years of 2026, 2030, and 2034 (if it still has the Olympic Rights then). Holding rights to the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics will prevent

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for viewership and advertising sales, and also allow NBC to create synergies and complementary advertising packages for the events. While there is an established practice of airing premieres or special episodes of entertainment programs after the Super Bowl to take advantage of its large audience, NBC may decide to air its Day 3 programming daytime in the morning prior to the Super Bowl and its primetime block after the game, as in 2022.

Notes

References

External links

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