US EditionTesting begins at Cortina's controversial Olympic sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton
- Mattia Gaspari was the first athlete to test the sliding track for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, which is still under construction.
- Positive results were reported by Simico, the project management agency overseeing the project, but certification is pending from international sports federations.
- Infrastructure and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini expressed gratitude to the construction firm and journalists for their support, acknowledging challenges faced during the project.
- The track is a significant achievement for the Italian government despite prior suggestions to relocate the events to Austria or Switzerland.
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Bobsleigh track, politics strut (and calm down) for the end of the work: “Our Brunelleschi Dome”
The bob celebrates its glory day, since the ice rink built on the slopes of the Tofane is able to bring down polished cars. Politics savors its power, having managed to achieve in twelve months what was indicated on paper as a project with 40 months of work. And so the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics gain the certainty of being able to be played in the entirety of the masterplan, made up of facilities, tracks, villages for athletes and three…
The Globe & Mail
Testing begins at Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton
Preliminary approval would be a big step in avoiding a backup Plan B option that the IOC had demanded and which would require moving the three sliding sports all the way to Lake Placid, N.Y.
Testing begins at Cortina's controversial Olympic sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton
ROME (AP) — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, he did so in a sort of tunnel under a temporary roof built of wooden beams and white plastic paper. That’s because the sliding center in Cortina d’Ampezzo is still under construction and the only part that is really finished is the track structure. Still, getting to this point…
OJ 2026: Cortina's bobsleigh track inaugurated, "a miracle"
The bobsleigh, sledge and skeleton track of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan Cortina, whose construction has raised controversy, was inaugurated on Tuesday, 305 days after the start of the project, "a miracle" according to its developers and local officials.
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