Chinese aerials specialist Xu Mengtao has announced that she is targeting featuring in the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, which would be her fifth appearance at an Olympic Games.

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Cortina d'Ampezzo to voice their opposition to a project to build a new sliding centre for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Brianna Decker has announced her retirement from the United States ice hockey team, ending a career which brought her Olympic gold and six world titles.

Gunilla Lindberg has suspended her membership of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games due to her native Sweden's interest in staging 2030.

Latvia has formed a research working group to examine the possibility of working with Sweden on a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

With less than three years until the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Italy's ski industry is reliant on artificial snow due to the climate change crisis.

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva had claimed she was "strengthened" at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where the then-15-year-old was the subject of a high-profile doping scandal.

Work has begun on demolishing of the Eugenio Monti sliding track in Cortina d'Ampezzo to make way for a new Sliding Centre to be used at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, although this has been the subject of a protest.

Marianna Jagerčíková of Slovakia took gold in the women’s sprint at the International Ski Mountaineering Federation World Championships at Boi Taull in the Spanish Pyrenees.

Milan Cortina 2026 President Giovanni Malagò has stressed that "sports facilities represent the priority" for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, with an agreement reportedly close on staging speed skating events in Milan.

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has hit out at delays to construction for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics but insists that 80 per cent of the work will be completed in "good time".

There were two messages that stood out in International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach’s speech at the Closing Ceremony of last year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing.

This week 25 years ago, a horse drawn stage coach appeared on stage as the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano came to an end. 

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) chief executive Sarah Hirshland has reiterated that its preference for staging a future Winter Olympics and Paralympics would be the 2034 edition, but has pledged "we'll get the Games back".

Organisers of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo have tasted more sponsorship success by landing a deal with Italian cheese manufacturer Grana Padano.