Cortina d'Ampezzo-Milan Winter Olympics

[Sciatic]

Place to discuss any events of interest during the next two weeks of Olympic competition. I will mostly be watching the alpine and Nordic skiing events. Perhaps someone else can add some info about the cross-country and biathlon races. Below is my primer for the alpine events.

• Note that the men's events are on the Stelvio course in Bormio and women's events at the Olimpia delle Tofane course in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Also, I didn’t list the Team Combined events because I think its a crime that they replaced the individual combined medal event with this silliness.
• Could be an exciting time for the home crowd as Italian skiers (Sofia Goggia and Giovanni Franzoni) are the likely favorites in both downhills, one of glamour events of any Winter Games. There will be tons of media attention on Lindsey Vonn’s injury derailing her comeback as the Queen of Speed, but I honestly don’t think she would have been one of the top tier favorites on this course. Shiffrin (slalom) and Odermatt (Super G) will be the biggest favorites in any of the events.

Medal events:
07 Feb Men’s Downhill 11:30 CET
Bormio-Stelvio

08 Feb Women’s Downhill 11:30
Cortina d' Ampezzo

11 Feb Men’s Super G 11:30
Bormio

12 Feb Women’s Super G 11:30
Cortina d' Ampezzo

14 Feb Men’s Giant Slalom, Bormio
1st Run 10:00
2nd Run 13:30

15 Feb Women’s Giant Slalom, Cortina d' Ampezzo
1st Run 10:00
2nd Run 13:30

16 Feb Men’s Slalom, Bormio
1st Run 10:00
2nd Run 13:30

18 Feb Women’s Slalom, Cortina d' Ampezzo
1st Run 10:00
2nd Run 13:30

Complete schedule for the entire Olympics here: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/schedule

 

[Sciatic]

Want to add that unlike the downhill courses at some Olympics, at locations that didn't have the terrain to be all that challenging, both men's and women's courses--especially the Stelvio--are quite tough and regularly part of the World Cup circuit. Should be fun to watch.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Want to add that unlike the downhill courses at some Olympics, at locations that didn't have the terrain to be all that challenging, both men's and women's courses--especially the Stelvio--are quite tough and regularly part of the World Cup circuit. Should be fun to watch.

I've been to northern Italy several times and even did some skiing there years ago - the scenery should be lovely and, what's the snow forecast like? Little or artificial snow will put a damper on the party visually at least...

 

[Sciatic]

I've been to northern Italy several times and even did some skiing there years ago - the scenery should be lovely and, what's the snow forecast like? Little or artificial snow will put a damper on the party visually at least...

It was really low snow until very recently. Courses will be mostly artificial snow, which is getting pretty common in many of the World Cup Alpine events. New snow will of course improve the scenery!

ed Watching some of the women's downhill training runs from early this morning I can see that Cortina got a big dump of snow. Don't know about the other venues

 

[JR1012]

The hockey will be insane. The best of the world will finaly clash against each other.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I'm not sure I've ever thought about Andorra and zebra stripes at the same time before.