🇮🇹 IOC awards the 2026 Winter Olympics to Milan—Cortina d’Ampezzo

Sam L · Jun 25, 2019

Winnie_20 said:
Just wondering what kind of awful times we’ll get with the figure skating. With the NBC demanding prime time viewing in the States... The only way for that to happen is to have the competitions start around, say, 8 pm Eastern.
That’s 2 am in Italy.

I will probably still go. It’ll be the first time in Italy (and Milan) for me since 2012. I want to go skating in the Dolomites so might use this opportunity.

deneb · Jun 25, 2019

lilahozi said:
Italy has enough $ to fund hosting the Olympics?

Sam L said:
Yeah I wonder how they find the money, 2 games in 20 years, even countries with better economies don’t bother.

90% of the infrastructure are already done.

Winnie_20 said:
Just wondering what kind of awful times we’ll get with the figure skating. With the NBC demanding prime time viewing in the States... The only way for that to happen is to have the competitions start around, say, 8 pm Eastern.
That’s 2 am in Italy.

According to candidature file (page 25), figure skating competitions are scheduled in the morning in Italy.

MGstyle · Jun 25, 2019

lilahozi said:
Italy has enough $ to fund hosting the Olympics?

They already opted out from holding another summer games in Rome. I am looking forward to hearing all the whinging about "wasting money that they don't have" on a trivial matter like Olympics ... NOT!!

balabam · Jun 25, 2019

drivingmissdaisy said:
Carolina Kostner for gold!

or maybe? We'll see

https://twitter.com/msKOSTNER/status/1143217416941514754

brens78 · Jun 25, 2019

I was hoping for Stockholm but still happy with Milan.

The Italians on this forum no doubt would have been jumping for joy!

Winnie_20 · Jun 25, 2019

deneb said:
According to candidature file (page 25), figure skating competitions are scheduled in the morning in Italy.

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I was afraid of that. If the competitions are in the “morning”, what time do the skaters have to get up?! And the practices and warmings up... Ugh. :-(

pearly · Jun 25, 2019

Winnie_20 said:
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I was afraid of that. If the competitions are in the “morning”, what time do the skaters have to get up?! And the practices and warmings up... Ugh. :-(

In Korea they were getting up around 5 am (early groups) and the competition started at 10. But there's no way NBC can get their prime time with AM competitions in Europe. 8 am in Italy is 2 am EST/11 pm PST. With that (unlikely) scenario, final groups would go around 5 am EST/2 m PST.

10 am start is 4 am in NYC and 1 am in LA. Top groups go around 7 am and 4 am respectively. I don't see how that works out for anyone. But at least in Europe we won't be getting up in the middle of the night to watch.

madraykin · Jun 25, 2019

pearly said:
In Korea they were getting up around 5 am (early groups) and the competition started at 10. But there's no way NBC can get their prime time with AM competitions in Europe. 8 am in Italy is 2 am EST/11 pm PST. With that (unlikely) scenario, final groups would go around 5 am EST/2 m PST.

10 am start is 4 am in NYC and 1 am in LA. Top groups go around 7 am and 4 am respectively. I don't see how that works out for anyone. But at least in Europe we won't be getting up in the middle of the night to watch.

My guess would be that if NBC do get involved in fiddling with the scheduling they'd try and get it moved to the evening - that way it's at least during the US daytime and they can do a tape-delayed evening show.

Jammers · Jun 25, 2019

I know this is jumping the gun but i wonder who will be the favorites for the 2030 Winter Olympics? I can't see a Asian country hosting another Olympics until at least 2032 or 2034 since we are in the middle of 3 straight Olympics in east Asia.

brens78 · Jun 25, 2019

Jammers said:
I know this is jumping the gun but i wonder who will be the favorites for the 2030 Winter Olympics? I can't see a Asian country hosting another Olympics until at least 2032 or 2034 since we are in the middle of 3 straight Olympics in east Asia.

I can see North America trying to nab these ones either they’ll try Calgary or Salt Lake City, despite USA having the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles.

el henry · Jun 25, 2019

brens78 said:
I can see North America trying to nab these ones either they’ll try Calgary or Salt Lake City, despite USA having the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles.

North America cities need to convince their populations that the Olys won’t be a financial drain. Calgary withdrew its last bid after over 50% of the population voted against it.

Far from “nabbing”, IMHO the IOC will need to kick in some serious money to convince a North American city to take the winter Olys.

Baron Vladimir · Jun 25, 2019

el henry said:
North America cities need to convince their populations that the Olys won’t be a financial drain. Calgary withdrew its last bid after over 50% of the population voted against it.

Far from “nabbing”, IMHO the IOC will need to kick in some serious money to convince a North American city to take the winter Olys.

Well if people think about Olympics only through the financial profit/loss sphere, than its better not to try to organize it at all.

theharleyquinn · Jun 25, 2019

el henry said:
North America cities need to convince their populations that the Olys won’t be a financial drain. Calgary withdrew its last bid after over 50% of the population voted against it.

Far from “nabbing”, IMHO the IOC will need to kick in some serious money to convince a North American city to take the winter Olys.

We're in an era where the IOC likes repeats. Salt Lake 2.0 is a real possibility.

Baron Vladimir said:
Well if people think about Olympics only through the financial profit/loss sphere, than its better not to try to organize it at all.

It can't be helped when so many cities have overspent and done wrong by their residents. The IOC and city dwellers want to see a plan that doesn't leave them dealing with the aftermath.

Baron Vladimir · Jun 25, 2019

theharleyquinn said:
It can't be helped when so many cities have overspent and done wrong by their residents. The IOC and city dwellers want to see a plan that doesn't leave them dealing with the aftermath.

Of course that you need to spent your money if you want to organize big events like that. Its not reasonable to think you can make a profit of it. You will certanly get a 'profit' in other areas, as it is promoting and populirazing your country/city/culture, well if you care about that. If you care only about money, then you will never want to do it.

brens78 · Jun 25, 2019

It's a massive risk overall hosting. My city of Brisbane wants to run for the 2032 Olympics and it has mixed reactions over it.

brens78 · Jun 25, 2019

el henry said:
North America cities need to convince their populations that the Olys won’t be a financial drain. Calgary withdrew its last bid after over 50% of the population voted against it.

Far from “nabbing”, IMHO the IOC will need to kick in some serious money to convince a North American city to take the winter Olys.

If it's a no from North America, I can't see why a strong Euro bid can't do back to back or back to Asia again.

Ophelia · Jun 25, 2019

Baron Vladimir said:
Well if people think about Olympics only through the financial profit/loss sphere, than its better not to try to organize it at all.

Easy for one to say that when other civilians are bearing the burden of the costs. Countries aren't a charity for the IOC to plumb.

aka_gerbil · Jun 26, 2019

Winnie_20 said:
Just wondering what kind of awful times we’ll get with the figure skating. With the NBC demanding prime time viewing in the States... The only way for that to happen is to have the competitions start around, say, 8 pm Eastern.
That’s 2 am in Italy.

I feel like given the unreasonableness of having athletes compete at 2 am, nbc will not get its wish on that.

Winnie_20 · Jun 26, 2019

aka_gerbil said:
I feel like given the unreasonableness of having athletes compete at 2 am, nbc will not get it’s wish on that.

Sure hope not! (Never mind the ahletes, how would they deal with the logistics of thousands of spectators in the middle of the night.)
So, morning seems logical, given that FS shares the arena with short track, held in the evenings.
There’ll probably be some very early morning practices, though...

brens78 · Jun 26, 2019

As long as I can easily stream it the event online, the time would not bother me so much. Last year our local network did a complete dog's breakfast on the overall coverage and literally no live figure skating at all! Both men's and ladies I watched all online and tv only showed recaps. Poor effort as figure skating is one of the BIG events at any Winter Olympics!

🇮🇹 IOC awards the 2026 Winter Olympics to Milan—Cortina d’Ampezzo

Sam L

deneb

MGstyle

Crawling around on the ice after chestnuts

balabam

🥕🥕🌵🌵😈😀

brens78

Winnie_20

pearly

madraykin

Jammers

brens78

el henry

Go have some cake. And come back with jollity.

Baron Vladimir

theharleyquinn

Baron Vladimir

brens78

brens78

Ophelia

aka_gerbil

Winnie_20

brens78

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