cortina 2026

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...