Our consideration proper now’s, after all, on the Summer season Olympics occurring in Paris.
However when the Summer season Video games finish on August 11, you may be questioning, the place are the Olympics heading subsequent?
The 2026 Winter Video games are being hosted in Italy within the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. Italy beat out a multi-city bid from Sweden within the choice course of. Then, in 2028, the Summer season Video games are coming again to the US and can largely be hosted in Los Angeles, which was unanimously chosen by the Worldwide Olympic Committee.
Because the video games in Paris wind down, right here’s what it’s essential know concerning the future Olympics:
1. Italy has a historical past with the winter Olympics
Biathletes ski through the Ladies’s 4x6km relay occasion on the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics in Cesana San Sicario, 23 February 2006. Russia took gold with Germany in silver and France taking the bronze. (JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP/Getty Pictures)
The Olympics in 2026 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the 2006 Winter Video games held in Turin and the seventieth anniversary of the 1956 Winter Video games held in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Italy additionally hosted a Summer season Olympics, in 1960 in Rome, so it will mark the fourth time total that the nation has hosted the worldwide sports activities competitors.
2. Different Italian cities will host competitions too in 2026
Not all the occasions within the 2026 Winter Video games might be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Right here’s the breakdown of the opposite cities and what competitions might be held there.
- Livigno: Freestyle Snowboarding, Snowboarding
- Bormio: Alpine Snowboarding, Ski Mountaineering (making its Olympic debut)
- Tesero: Cross-Nation Snowboarding, Nordic Mixed
- Predazzo: Ski Leaping, Nordic Mixed
- Anterselva and Antholz: Biathlon
3. NHL gamers are heading again to the Olympics
Russia ahead Alex Ovechkin (8) controls the puck towards Slovakia in a males’s preliminary spherical ice hockey sport through the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Video games at Bolshoy Ice Dome. (Scott Rovak-USA TODAY Sports activities)
The world’s finest hockey league hasn’t allowed its gamers to take part within the Olympics because the 2014 video games in Sochi. That’s altering in 2026, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman introduced throughout All-Star Weekend earlier this yr. Bettman advised the AP:
“All people felt on our possession facet that it was the fitting factor to do. … This actually got here all the way down to doing one thing as a result of the gamers actually wished it.”
Nevertheless, in February, based on the AP, the 15,000-seat hockey enviornment that’s alleged to host Olympic play in two years was nowhere close to being accomplished.
4. Los Angeles joins an unique membership in 2028
When the Summer season Video games come to Los Angeles in 2028, it’s going to be a part of London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024) as the one cities to host the Olympics 3 times. Los Angeles beforehand hosted the summer time Olympics in 1932 and 1984.
It’s going to even be the primary time the Olympics have been within the U.S. in practically three a long time. The final Olympics hosted within the U.S. have been the 2002 Winter Video games in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Whereas a lot of the competitions might be held in and round Los Angeles – or not less than within the state of California – two sports activities might be performed states away. Oklahoma Metropolis will host softball and canoe slalom.
5. Flag soccer’s debut
Baseball, softball, cricket and lacrosse will all return to the Olympics in 2028, and two new sports activities will make their debuts: Squash and flag soccer.
The latter already has us fascinated with what kind of NFL all-star crew might play in Los Angeles. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow has already expressed his curiosity.
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