Buying tickets for the 2026 Winter Games will be tricky. Sliding could be in Cortina or Lake Placid
Tickets are about to go on sale for the next Olympics and nobody is quite sure if one of the major Winter Games venues will be ready in time
By ANDREW DAMPF
Published - Aug 09, 2024, 12:09 PM ET
Last Updated - Aug 09, 2024, 12:09 PM EDT
PARIS (AP) — It’s kind of like buying tickets for an aging rock band and hoping that the 80-year-old singers and guitarists will be healthy enough to put on the show months down the line.
Only this time, the show might be moved from Italy to New York.
Tickets are about to go on sale for the next Olympics and nobody is quite sure if one of the major Winter Games venues will be ready in time.
Organizers for Milan-Cortina in 2026 are rushing to build a controversial sliding center in Cortina while at the same time keeping open existing backup options in Austria (Igls), Switzerland (St. Moritz) and New York (Lake Placid).
