In the Winter Olympics, luge, bobsleigh and skeleton are three downhill sports timed on the same type of icy track. If on paper they are quite close, their racing rules and especially the position of the athletes, the type of sled and the composition of the teams are very different. On the other hand, they … Read more
The controversy continues in the world of ski jumping. Since revelations from the German media Bild, athletes have been suspected of cheating by having hyaluronic acid injections to thicken their penis and thus modify the amplitude of their suit, to fly longer. While the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has expressed its intention to look into … Read more
Ilia Malinin experiences a first setback at the Winter Olympics in Italy. In the short program of the team competition, the new figure skating superstar only achieved second place. Will the 21-year-old be evaluated fairly? Figure skating superstar Ilia Malinin suffered her first setback in the team competition at the Olympic Games in Italy. The … Read more
Participating in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina in these conditions is already an achievement. Except that Lindsey Vonn didn’t just come to participate. She came to achieve a result. Victim of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee eight days ago, the 41-year-old American set the third time this Saturday … Read more
The Italian rail network is operating slowly this Saturday, the fault of “serious acts of sabotage”. Transport Minister Matteo Salvini expressed concern about the tensions and suggested they were linked to the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The police are not excluding this possibility either, while they are still investigating three incidents which caused … Read more
The Simmental is a Swiss valley with postcard landscapes of rural and mountainous Switzerland, whose name refers to a purebred cow renowned for its meat and milk and whose hills saw the growth of the man who descended the fastest down the dreaded Stelvio slope, Saturday, late morning. Annihiling the dreams of Italian coronation at … Read more
“Everything is fine” for the Olympic mogul ski champion, Perrine Laffont. Returning to competition at the end of January after a knee injury, the Pyrenees was smiling and relaxed at the end of her first day of training for the Olympic Games, in Livigno, on Saturday. “I tested a lot of lines. I think I … Read more
The Winter Olympics are not unanimous in Milan. Thousands of people took to the streets of the Lombardy city on Saturday to denounce a range of problems, from the use of artificial snow to the housing crisis in the country’s wealthy financial capital. Among these demonstrators, a group of around ten hooded people began throwing … Read more
The whole world saw the Italian flag raised by Crabbinieri for the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina winter games. In Cortina, alongside these members of the Italian national gendarmerie, stood out the four standard bearers, great winning athletes of the 4 x 10 relay in Turin who our transalpine neighbors had chosen to represent them … Read more
Several hundred people gathered on Saturday in Grenoble, Isère, to demonstrate against the organization of the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in the French Alps, which they consider costly and harmful to the environment. While the 2026 Winter Olympics begin this weekend in Cortina, Italy, several groups opposed to holding the 2030 Games in … Read more