It is Friday February 6 one of the great events in world sport is inaugurated. The 2026 Winter Olympic Games raise the curtain in Italy with an opening ceremony to be held at the San Siro stadium in Milan, which will mark the … start of more than two weeks of competition at the highest level.
Until February 22, athletes from all over the world will compete for medals in a specially distributed format, with urban and alpine venues, and with a program that combines classic disciplines with some notable novelties.
Where are the 2026 Winter Olympics?
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are held in Italy with a model widely distributed between urban and alpine venues. Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo act as the main hubs, but the competitions are spread across different enclaves in the north of the country.
The ice events are concentrated in the urban environment, while the snow events are held in locations such as Bormio and Livigno (Valtellina), Val di Fiemme, Anterselva and the Dolomites, one of the most emblematic landscapes in the country.
What tests and sports participate
The program includes 8 sports, 16 disciplines and a total of 116 medal events. The great novelty of this edition is the entry of mountain skiing as an Olympic discipline, a reflection of the growth of this sport in recent years.
Which Spanish athletes compete
Spain attends the Games with a delegation of 20 athletesone of the largest in its history in the Winter Games. The list includes presence in snow and ice sports and in the new Olympic discipline, with options for prominence especially in snowboarding and mountain skiing.
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Mountain skiing: Oriol Cardona, Ana Alonso, Ot Ferrer, María Costa
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Snowboard: Queralt Castellet, Nora Cornell, Lucas Eguibar, Álvaro Romero
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Speed skating: Nil Llop, Daniel Milagros
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Figure skating: Tomás Guarino, Tim Dieck, Olivia Smart, Asaf Kazimov, Sofía Val
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Cross-country skiing: Bernat Sellés, Jaume Pueyo, Marc Collell
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Alpine skiing: Quim Salarich, Arrieta Rodríguez
The 2026 Winter Games aspire to mark a before and after in Olympic history, with a broader calendar, new disciplines and an unprecedented territorial distribution.
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