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The International Olympic Committee moved to shut down suggestions that Italy could still manage to stage ice sliding events at its home 2026 Winter Games.
The International Olympic Committee on Friday moved to shut down suggestions that Italy could still manage to stage ice sliding events at its home 2026 Winter Games. Organizers of the Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympics acknowledged last month that bobsled, luge and skeleton events are set to be raced in neighboring Austria or Switzerland after scrapping a delayed and increasingly costly plan to revive the storied and scenic Cortina sliding track. “The IOC has been very clear over the last years that no permanent venue should be built if there is not a clear and viable legacy plan,” it said, reiterating that at such a late stage “only existing and already operating tracks must be considered.”
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