Cross-country skiing was held in 1924 at the first Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix, France. Men competed 18-kilometer and 50-kilometer races, and the Scandinavian countries dominated until the Soviet Union entered the playing field at the 1956 Winter ...
At the Olympic Winter Games Milan Cortina 2026, the sliding sports — bobsled, skeleton, and luge — will be held at the new Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The facility opened to sliding this fall. It’s located in Cortina d’Ampezzo, 257 mil...
At the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, the biathlon will take place in Anterselva/Antholz, an international biathlon center in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The center frequently hosts biathlon world cups and is located about an hour no...
Alpine skiing made its Olympic debut at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympic Winter Games. Both men and women competed in slalom and downhill, but the only medals awarded were for the downhill and slalom combined. When the Olympic Winter Games resum...
