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The 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The Games will be held from February 6–22, 2026.

The opening ceremony is scheduled to San Siro Stadium and the closing is scheduled for Verona Arena

Ski mountaineering is a new sport for the 2026 program, plus several new events have been added to existing sports. See the list of sports for 2026.

Trivia

• The Winter Olympics were also hosted in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956.
• It will be the first Olympic Games officially featuring multiple host cities.
• It will be the first Winter Olympics since Sarajevo 1984 where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held in different venues.
• For the first time a sport will be conducted outside of the Winter Olympics host country. The sliding sports for Milan Cortina 2026 will be held outside of Italy.

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Related Pages

• Other Host Cities
• Italy at the Winter Olympics
• Previous Games: Beijing 2022
• About Sport in Italy
• Italy at the Summer Olympics