Episode 3200
2026 Winter Olympics
Thu, 2026-Feb-05 02:45 UTC
Length - 1:50
Direct Link
Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.
With 360,925 views on Wednesday, 4 February 2026 our article of the day is 2026 Winter Olympics.
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Italian: Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the XXV Winter Olympic Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an international multi-sport event taking place from 4 to 22 February 2026 at sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy.
A joint bid by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo was awarded the 2026 Winter Olympics at the 134th IOC Session in June 2019, beating another joint bid made by Stockholm and Åre, Sweden. Milano Cortina 2026 will be the first Olympic Games to be officially co-hosted by two cities; Milan will primarily host the ice events. The remaining events will be hosted in clusters around Cortina and the Valtellina and Fiemme valleys. These will mark the third Winter Olympics, and the fourth Olympics overall, to be hosted by Italy; Cortina d'Ampezzo previously hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics.
The 2026 Games will feature the debut of ski mountaineering as a Winter Olympic event and will be the first Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Kirsty Coventry.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:45 UTC on Thursday, 5 February 2026.
For the full current version of the article, see 2026 Winter Olympics on Wikipedia.
This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.
Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.
Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.
Until next time, I'm generative Matthew.
|
|
