The element of incorporating New York into the Olympics is just one of the unique details inside Lake Placid’s plan if it gets asked to be the site of the sliding events for next winter’s ...

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 ...

With the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics less than a year away, organizing committee CEO Andrea Varnier said he has “absolutely no doubt” that sliding sports will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo ...

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. “The track’s structure is done.

Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands ...

Tests were underway at the controversial Olympic sliding track in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. Several competitors went down the track to be used for next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

With the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics less than a year away, organizing committee CEO Andrea Varnier said he has “absolutely no doubt” that sliding sports will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, ...

A general view shows the work site of the new Cortina Sliding Centre during its pre-approval testing process ahead of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, in Cortina on March 25, 2025.

Testing begins at Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton By: Andrew Dampf, The Associated Press Posted: 7:54 AM CDT Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025 Last Modified: 3: ...