A transport strike during an official test event for the Milan-Cortina Olympics highlighted why organizers are negotiating with trade unions to avoid a similar scenario during next year’s Winter Games.

The 116 medal events — most in Winter Olympic history — will be scattered across Northern Italy from Milan in the west to Cortina d'Ampezzo in the east. Here are American-focu

Alpine skiing will be divided between Cortina (for the women’s events) and Bormio (for the men) — which are separated by a 5 ½-hour drive. Livigno will host freestyle skiing and snowboarding, biathlon will be in Anterselva, Nordic events will be in Val di Fiemme and ice sports in Milan.

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.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, which open one year from today, feature the Olympic debuts of one sport and six new events within existing sports.

Next year’s Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but it will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy spread over five different venue clusters.

NBC announced plans for Winter Olympics coverage in 2026 that are modeled on its successful programming strategy for Paris 2024.

The complicating part of staging a Winter Games in the Italian Alps? Getting around the Italian Alps, but such hurdles might be the future.

Around 300,000 tickets have already been sold for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Andrea Varnier, the CEO of the Milano-Cortina Foundation, said on Tuesday. "We launched the ticketing program for sales to the general public on February 6,