Sliding events of 2026 Winter Olympics to be held outside Italy

MUMBAI, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The sliding events of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics will have to be held outside Italy after plans to build a new venue in Cortina stalled, the Games organizers said here on Monday.

Giovanni Malago, president of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Organizing Committee, announced the decision to move bobsleigh, skeleton and luge from Cortina to a foreign venue during a presentation to the