Cortina d’Ampezzo or… Lake Placid, in the United States: One year from the term organizers of the Olympic Games in 2026 still do not know whether their bobsleigh, sled and skeletal events take place on the tracking line, still under construction, still under construction, or 6 000 kilometers from the Dolomites.
These may be the most trimmable sports in the winter games, never bobsleigh, sledding and skeleton (sled on the stomach and head forward), so much interest.
Reason? Their “sliding center”, where twelve Olympic titles must be awarded in February 2026, expensive and complex equipment that builds, causing almost all organizers of winter games.
At the heights of Cortina d’Ampezzo, a few meters from Trapus Chalets and under the cable cars, 190 workers in the race are launched in the race against hours seven days a week, sometimes at night: Deliver concrete snake 1650 m Speed, sophisticated installation of ice production, in record time.
Milano Cortina 2026 in his application, which in 2019 favored in 2019 by the International Olympic Committee (CIO) to the Swedish Forte Stockholm ensemble, recklessly announced that the composition of the EUGENIO Monti Olympic Games will be reconstructed in accordance with its use strategy.
Except that it was built in 1923, an old cement slip, immortalized in James’s Bond (Only for your eyes), has not been used since 2008 and does not meet safety and environmental standards.
Ico skepticism
The call for tender for this complicated project cannot find the recipient.
Without an active route in Italy, which still organized winter games in 2006 in Turin, the President of the Italian Olympic Committee Giovanni Malago announced in October 2023 to ml. Winter Olympic Games.
This decision immediately made the ultra -conservative government of Giorgia Meloni to jump on the ceiling.
“The Olympic Games in Milan Cortin must be the Italian Olympic Games, the track Bob must be in Cortina,” the vice president and minister of the far right transport Matteo Salvini last.
In the greatest skepticism, especially in IOC, which reminds that there was no track in such a short period of time, a similar, delivery company of the Olympic works, launches an express selection procedure that this time finds the holder of the lake, the Italian BTP Obří pizzarotti.
The work of the Association of Environmental Protection, which condemns the defeat of hundreds of trees and is concerned about its use in the Olympic Games, begins work in February 2024, two years from the Olympic Games, for an estimated amount of EUR 120 million.
And since then, every month, representatives of similarities, organizers, IOCs and international watercampers of the Toboggans (FIL) and Bobsleigh (IBSF), they appreciate progress at work.
The last inspection in January caused a cold because the key meetings for this track, its ice cream and the first descents for its approval scheduled at the end of March.
“150 meters a day”
“The calendar remains tense and the challenge,” he warned in mid -January and organizers.
“We are in time, the pre -mutually will take place from 24 to March 30,” Simico owner assured on Friday.
“Nothing suggests that they will not succeed,” confirms Christophe Dubi, director of OHS in IOC. On the other hand, time counts, producing about 150 meters of the track a day ”.
According to a source with access to inspection reports that demanded anonymity, “there is a possibility to retreat in April,” explains AFP.
At the same time, the organizers had to work on a rescue plan, as required by IOC.
And this alternative solution is confusing at least: in the footsteps of Innsbruck (Austria) and St Moritz (Switzerland), almost neighboring, the American trace of Lake Placid was preferred.
“This is the most practical solution from the economic point of view (…), because other trips since last year needed a solid commitment since last year,” explains AFP Milano Cortina 2026 Andrea Varnierova.
“But we are quite sure and optimistic that it will not be necessary to activate this plan B,” he smiles.
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