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Are they bidding for it??

is there any information in Milano Cortina 2026 having a Medals Plaza? Or will they do venue medal ceremonies? I mean, the area is too widespread...

Right as we get into the 100-day countdown mark, the CBC and Radio-Canada present, uploaded several hours ago, a behind the scenes video in how they're preparing for its extensive and massive Milan-Cortina 2026 multiplatform coverage just several months away for both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, as hosted by CBC Olympic hosts Anastascia Bucsis and Perdita Felicien. See how their dedicated crews in both English and French are preparing: from the visual look (visual graphics IDs inspired by Milan's fashion scene and energy and the Milan-Cortina 2026 set unveiled), interviews and profiles with Canadian athletes, look into Italian life and culture, feel of the broadcast to the music creation from Orin Issacs (with mandolin and accordian for the Italian flair made funky), and even the marketing campaign such as social media, streaming, and digital media like CBC Gem. Indigenous languages will be included again for this. Both the CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee are also bringing back its Brave Is Unbeatable campaign for this On November 27th, SVT has a new initiative “Without filter: the cross-country national team towards the Olympics” premiering on SVT1 and SVT Play. The series provides a unique insight into the Swedish cross-country stars’ path towards the Olympics in Milan Cortina 2026 with stars like Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson and William Poromaa. Not just showing the lactic acid buildup forehead bones at the end of races and training but also the laughs and team spirit throughout: https://www.svt.se/sport/langdskidor/ny-svt-serie-folj-langdlandslaget-bakom-kulisserna-i-resan-mot-os SKY New Zealand, that Kiwi sports media juggernaut, not unexpectedly just secures and extends the exclusive New Zealand Olympic broadcasting rights all the way to Brisbane 2032, starting with Milan-Cortina 2026. Right as NZ's 2026 Winter Olympic Team starts to get announced with several already in. This coincides with SKY's recent acquisitions of Three and ThreeNow, now expected to be incorporated in this, that will allow greater free-to-air access for SKY to Kiwis in upcoming Olympics. Key moments of the upcoming Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, particularly when they involve New Zealand's Winter Olympians, will continue to be broadcast free-to-air on Sky Open (formerly PRIME), alongside Sky’s comprehensive multichannel coverage on Sky Sport and Sky Sport Now, delivering broad accessibility and round-the-clock, in-depth coverage of every sport: https://olympic.org.nz/news/sky-secures-olympic-rights

It is remarkable how well preserved the Olympic Park in Munich is - especially the stadium, considering it hasn't had a football team calling it home for 20 years. I'm not sure there is another athletics stadium in Europe that's done so well without having any other sporting use. Maybe Montjuic before Barcelona moved in? I mean I don't know exact details of what's there but it looks like Munich is one of the extremely small group of cities that could step in to host a short notice Olympics in the event of a catastrophe in a future host so I can't imagine they'll have to do much big money building. (I don't know when the decision is being made but from an Olympic point of view (rather than a partisan British one lol) around now would be a good time to award Munich the 29 World Athletics Championships...)

Another feather (boa) in the cap… Australia Is Officially Hosting The 2030 Gay Games

Probably the best news in recent Olympic history. Given the issues with India's NOC, and as other have mentioned, questionable outcomes of Hamburg, Berlin, and NRW's referendums, I wouldn't be surprised if Munich ends up with the 2036 games, or some sort of double awarding like they did with Paris and LA. I suppose I am biased and partial to Munich. Visited about a decade ago and it has remained one of my favorite cities in Europe next to Prague, and its Olympic Park impressed me. Having visited several more Olympic cities since, I would go so far as to say Munich's is the best maintained and utilized (next to Melbourne) of the 20th C. hosts.

Since we're getting closer, I thought it was time already to open a thread about it. Italy: https://www.nss-sports.com/en/kits/41302/milan-cortina-2026-italy-armani Australia: https://www.paralympic.org.au/2025/10/australias-milano-cortina-uniform-launched-by-the-governor-general/ Austria https://www.reuters.com/sports/austria-hoping-milano-cortina-medal-haul-matches-beijing-total-2025-10-28/

Really like the Paralympic poster. The Olympic one not as much. Also I feel they heavily played it safe now because of all the stupid controversy regarding the Paris poster.

Anheuser-Busch signs up its Michelob-Light line as a TOP sponsor. CRAZY!! At $50 mil/year (est) (altho that is not too far from the $40 million charged for the Atlanta 1996 top Tier sponsors (one-time event) only. A-B InBev extends IOC sponsorship through 2032 I wonder who else LA28 can bring in? They need one for their buses (and banking)?? I guess Coke is tied in for Torch Relay sponsorship as it has done so for years.

Podium design will be revealed tomorrow... hopefully the medal ceremony theme too? 🥹

BREAKING NEWS! Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover and their Sesame Street friends are going to Italy and are joining NBC's Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics comprehensive multiplatform coverage So they're doing the winter version of what they did back in Paris. Expect them to reprise their appearances on TODAY, Access Hollywood, NBC Nightly News for Kids, NBC Sports’ daytime Olympics coverage, as well as meeting with Team USA athletes, and extensively sharing their Milan-Cortina experience via Sesame Street and NBC Olympics social accounts. The vision of Cookie Monster going crazy devouring all that Italian cuisine in Milan--the pizzas, spaghetti, zitos, gelato, mostacciolli, cannoli, Italian desserts, and more--like he does is gonna be so hilarious!!! 🤣 Tomorrow marks the 100-day countdown mark towards the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, so we can expect a flurry of media and broadcasting details then from around the world. In the meantime, I'll try to find some beforehand today.

I don’t often post on thus thread, but just came across a nice clip from the IOC’s channel - the Mexico City 68 closing ceremony

Just came across a nice reminder of the games in a news story about this year’s NSW Schools Athletics Championships. Nice to see the podiums are still being used after all these years!

Some notes on JTBC's Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic plans from South Korea and beyond so far Following is largely translated from Namu-Wiki: Details are still slowly forthcoming when it comes to the principal aspects. It doesn't even have its own program slogans yet for it overall and its main and highlight programs. But right now, it looks as though JTBC's exclusivity in terms of broadcasting the Olympics and the World Cups will not really materialize with the increasing likelihood JTBC will partner up with a one of the formerly-shared South Korean Olympic TV consortium broadcasters out of KBS, SBS, and MBC. The JoongAng Group has banned consortium-style bidding, making it impossible for the three terrestrial broadcasters--SBS, KBS, and MBC--to jointly secure broadcasting rights, despite the three terrestrial broadcasters claiming that “the Olympics and the World Cup are sporting events of great national interest and are subject to the ‘universal viewing right’ under the Broadcasting Act, so JTBC has an obligation to provide the broadcasting rights at a fair and reasonable price,” and filed an application for an injunction with the court to halt the bidding for the broadcasting rights. However, the court dismissed the application for an injunction, stating that the right to universal viewing rights belongs to the ‘citizens’ and not to the three terrestrial broadcasters. As the conflict over broadcasting rights intensified, JTBC filed a complaint with the Fair Trade Commission, claiming that the three terrestrial broadcasters had colluded for a long time over the broadcasting rights for the Olympics and World Cup. In response, the three terrestrial broadcasters are considering requesting a fact-finding investigation by the Korean Communications Commission. Therefore, to broadcast the Olympics and World Cup for South Korea on terrestrial broadcasting networks, each broadcaster must individually bid for broadcasting rights. However, it is uncertain whether terrestrial broadcasters can afford the broadcasting rights fees, which are estimated to reach hundreds of billions to trillions of won. Furthermore, interest in international competitions like the Olympics and World Cup is gradually waning, so even if they do acquire broadcasting rights, there is no guarantee of successful results, which is a concern. However, as the Korean Communications Commission is being operated under a one-person system led by Chairperson Lee Jin-sook, it is not functioning properly, and as it was automatically dismissed by the Act on the Establishment of the Korea-US Unification Advisory Council, it is difficult to take practical measures such as fact-finding until the chairperson of the newly reorganized Korea Communications Commission is appointed. As of now, the JoonAng Group has announced a public bidding for broadcasting rights twice, but it has been reported that none of the three terrestrial broadcasters have participated in the bidding. If things go smoothly thereafter, similar to SBS's broadcasting performance during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, it's likely that only one terrestrial broadcaster will broadcast the event live, while the other two will likely air their regular programming without any further developments and no highlights. Considering the relatively lower interest in winter sports compared to summer sports, with all due respect towards short track, South Korea's most popular winter sport and won the overwhelming bulk of its Winter Olympic medals, it's highly likely that none of the three terrestrial broadcasters will actually bid. Naver was selected as the broadcasting rights holder for the new media sector and plans to diversify content formats, including "Live Broadcast of All Matches," "AI-Based Highlights," and "Watch Together, " improving viewer accessibility and immersion. Naver will also collaborate with JTBC on original content production, fan community activation, and offline events, all through its Chijijik: https://namu-wiki.translate.goog/w/2026 밀라노·코르티나담페초 동계올림픽/중계?_x_tr_sl=ko&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc For Switzerland's SRF (aka Schweizer Fernsehen) German realm, SRF will fully accompany the large-scale event. On TV, live broadcasts on all 16 Olympic days from morning to evening in German. In the studio in Cortina, Annette Fetscherin and Sascha Ruefer will lead through the program. The regular «Olympiaflash» keeps the audience up to date as well as the «Special» in the SRF Sport app and on srf.ch. Through the SRF online platforms, users also have access to further live streams of the Olympic Games in order not to miss a decision. In Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic alpine skiing, we'll expect to have Beat Feuz, Didier Plaschy, Marc Berthod and Tina Weirather with maybe Michael Schweizer joining on the podcast realm with Podcast On The Edge Of The Slopes on SF2. Also, SF2 has a 2-part documentary, both airing 20.10 Swiss/CET time, on the Swiss alpine skiiers that premiered in October 21. Part one deals with the younger Swiss female skiiers (Malorie Blanc, 21, Zrinka Ljutić, 21, and Lara Colturi, 18, 17-year-olds Lara Bianchi, Anna Flatscher and Minna Bont) seriously pushing their older female counterparts (Lara Gut-Behrami, 34, Michelle Gisin, 31, and Wendy Holdener, 32, but also World Cup overall winner Federica Brignone, 35, and downhill runner-up Miriam Puchner, 33) all in their final Olympic push in the upcoming World Cup season. Part 2 coming November 25 deals with the men including Marco Odermatt during the race-free period and illuminates the great competition in the alpine team from the point of view of Gino Caviezel and Nils Hintermann. Both return to the Swiss Ski squad after their health setbacks in the 2025/26 Olympic season. In addition, the Norwegian and Austrian top cracks will be examined, which want to offer the seemingly overpowering Swiss team in the coming winter Paroli. Just a start of what's to come from SRG. Surely there's more coming from all of its languages: https://medien.srf.ch/-/wintersport-programm-bei-srf-im-zeichen-von-olympia-und-eishockey-heim-wm Ilta-Santomat newspaper in Finland reports that Toni Saukkola, currently covering Finland's SM-Liiga on MTV, will be commentating on all defending Olympic gold medalists Finland's Lions' Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic matches on YLE as the public broadcaster's surprise choice: https://www.is.fi/jaakiekko/art-2000011579277.html https://atleetti-fi.translate.goog/is-yle-valitsi-leijonaaanensa-olympailaisiin-mtvn-liiga-selostaja-haaviin/?_x_tr_sl=fi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

China seems to be soft testing a new class of mascot… Chinese ice dancers under investigation after holding toy missile at event

I therefore doubt that this is a "serious" poll, or at least one conducted by a polling institute. No polling institute (with very rare exceptions) conducts a poll with more than 2,000 respondents, because in reality, the more people you survey, the less the gains in terms of margin of error are felt (in fact, a sample of 1,000 people is sufficient). However, it will cost even more (without any real gain, therefore) to survey more people. Even reading the methodology insert in the NDR article, the variable of the respondents job is missing (there is obviously the level of education, but it's not enough), and it's a very important variable; household composition and income also missing. So, I wouldn't necessarily give this poll much credence; Although it wouldn't shock me if 60% of Hamburg residents were actually against it. (I didn't think having received a lecture from a research director at the largest French polling institute would be useful to me on this forum, but listen, that's how it is.) As for the rest: it's fantastic news to see such widespread support in Munich for the idea of hosting the Olympics. The DSOB has a golden opportunity to seize the opportunity and become the next European country to host the Games (in 2036 or 2040, time will tell), because at this point, Germany has just taken a huge lead over the rest of Europe (but the race is long).

Beautiful, it almost looks like a urinal. It will go well with the Qatari vagina stadium. Who said that the Gulf countries were the most prudish and conservative in the world?

SA apparently proposing a "sky stadium"....as the poster says "this will 100% not be built"...

OK, thanks, a pinch of salt required then, but useful as a bit of a guide as to where Hamburg might be on this.

Link in German here: https://www.ndr.de/ndrfragt/olympische-spiele-mehrheit-in-hamburg-lehnt-plaene-ab,olympia-418.html There is a box saying it is not a representative but weighted poll, and it had more than 6000 respondents in Hamburg alone, more than 24000 in the region altogether, so the sample size is quite big. It was of course also conducted before the Munich result was known, so this does not yet reflect on the answers given in this poll.

The 1972 village is very much in use for housing, as it should, and will certainly not be demolished. The new village is planned a bit further away on grounds that are anyway going to be projected for housing (currently agriculture area at the north-east edge of the city).

So, if Munich were to bag 2040 -- it would then be the 3rd 2x repeat host -- joining Athens and Tokyo in that category. So, will the 1972 Village where the dreadful events happened, still stand for the next Munich Games? Or will they demolish those??

When you say "by the public broadcaster" do you mean a poll commissioned by the broadcaster using a reputable polling company, or do you mean a phone poll of viewers?

I don’t think I’ve seen any credible polls here actually. It was all a bit left in the dark as to how this would end up. Hamburg just had one by the public broadcaster where 60% were against bidding (see also the other thread about the referendum), so this isn’t looking good.

Chances for a positive outcome were probably the highest indeed in Munich, given that 1972 really left a lasting legacy on the city (hey, I was in the Olympic pool swimming yesterday morning!), obviously not talking about the terror attack but about urban development here. And there has been the recent success of the 2022 European Championships still fresh in peoples’ minds. Then again, the 2013 referendum showed that also here there’s no guarantee the five rings will be welcomed with open arms again.