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On 21 February in Cortina d'Ampezzo work began on the construction of the new flat bobsleigh track for the 2026 Olympics.Despite the very high costs, the protests of environmentalist groups, the presentation of a much more practical and sustainable alternative, the negative opinion of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the short timescales in which the work would have to be carried out, to say the least, on the morning of On Wednesday, the start of the day was announced by the sound of chainsaws, turned on to start the clearing by felling 500 centuries-old larches for the construction of the runway.The enormous damage caused by the construction of the circuit is not limited to the environmental issue and the natural heritage of the city, but also directly affects the inhabitants as in the case of Mirko Gardini, now former owner of the Cortina adventure park, dismantled to make room to a work that seems to have a future already written, and be destined to meet the same fate...

In view of Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, which will begin in exactly two years (6 February 2026), a week of celebrations began yesterday between Cortina, Trento and other locations.However, there are many critical issues linked to the sporting event, including exorbitant costs and "environmental havoc" denounced by environmentalist associations.Precisely for this reason, activists have organized a series of protest initiatives, including marches, demonstrations and flash mobs, to relaunch the "no" to the major works that should be carried out in these two years.The Unsustainable Olympics Committee – IOC 2026, among the main promoters of the protests, in particular has reported "the negative impact" of the event, including "environmental devastation", "violent transformation of the social fabric" and promotion of a "crazy model of mountain tourism" now unsustainable "on a social and environmental level".The init...

After months of debates and protests for the controversial reconstruction of the bobsleigh track in Cortina in view of the 2026 Cortina Winter Olympics, today's news is that the works to adapt the circuit will not be carried out and therefore the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton races will be hosted on another track abroad.It has made known this morning the president of CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee), Giovanni Malagò, based on information received from the government during a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC, the world's highest sports body) in Mumbai, India.The main reasons why the facility will not be renovated (a bobsled track in Cortina already exists) lie in the fact that no company accepted the assignment due to the high costs and very short timescales:the tender for the construction site included 807 days of work and at the moment there are around 830 days until the start of the Olympics.In any case, the track should be finished much earlier, at...