2026 Winter Olympics Feb. 7 schedule: Milan Cortina events - ESPN
The 2026 Winter Olympics are in full swing this weekend with curling, luge, speed skating and more events in action.
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Luge-Triple challenge of turn four could decide medals in three sports
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 5 : Turn four of the new Cortina Olympic sliding track - named Labirinti (labyrinths) and consisting of three high-speed, back to back curves - has already been identified as the crucial part of the course for luge, skeleton and bobsleigh.
Huge in luge - Germans expect another big medal haul
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 5 : Most countries arrive at the Olympics dreaming of, maybe hoping for, medals but when it comes to Germany and luge the question is more about which of their athletes will take gold and who will have to settle for a lower place on the podium.
Luge-First training run shows testing nature of new Cortina track
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 4 : Luge athletes got a feel of the Cortina Olympic track on Wednesday, many of them for the first time, as training for the men's singles immediately showed what a technical challenge it will present for all three sliding sports.
Sports court says it lacks jurisdiction over U.S. skeleton athlete Uhlaender's Olympic appeal
U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender's last chance to make the Olympic field may have been lost Monday, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport saying it lacks the jurisdiction to change the result of a race that could have earned her a berth in the Milan Cortina Games.
Torch arrives in co-host Cortina on anniversary of 1956 Games
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Jan 26 : The Olympic torch relay reached the co-host Cortina d'Ampezzo on Monday, heading into the Dolomite town on the 70th anniversary of the opening of its 1956 Winter Games.
Trinity Ellis is Canada's lone returning Olympic luge athlete of 6-member team
Canada has named its six athletes for the Olympic luge team, with five first-time Olympians set to hit the big stage.
Austrians seek to dent German luge hegemony
LONDON, Jan 21 : To say that Germany is the dominant force in Olympic luge barely does justice to the country’s near-total hegemony of the high-speed, “feet-first” sliding event and it would be a huge surprise if they do not win most, if not all of the five golds available in Cortina next month.