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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — There won’t be any spectators for the opening test races at the controversial sliding venue for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. That’s because while the track itself is ...

Preparations for the 2026 Winter Games in the famed-Italian city of Milan are already in full swing, with 60 athletes having assessed the controversial sliding course ahead of next year’s event. "The ...

In late March, sliding athletes from around the world conducted initial tests on a sliding track that Italian officials are building for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Lake Placid sliding venues have been ...

A Canadian athlete tests the new Cortina Sliding Centre ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Photo by Pierre TEYSSOT / AFP After multiple controversies and only 13 months of construction, ...

ROME – 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 ...

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