Government decides not to pay for sliding centre reconstructionLuge, bobsleigh and skeleton events will move to another nation
The sliding events at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will be held at a venue outside Italy after the government decided not to pay for a new one, Games organising chief, Giovanni Malagò, said on Monday.
Malagò told an International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting that the government had decided not to invest in a venue for the Games, leaving organisers no option but to look for one abroad. The sliding centre hosts the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton competitions during the Games and Italy’s plan to reconstruct a sliding centre where an old, defunct venue existed had hit obstacles from the start of preparations.
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