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.
FILE - Switzerland's Priska Nufer speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill training, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. – 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.
“Practically,” Andrea Varnier, the Milan-Cortina CEO, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday at the“Right now we’re proceeding with operational plans only for Cortina. Then as we get closer to the start of autumn we’ll have a better indication of where things are. Then by February we’ll be very close to an eventual initial homologation and hopefully we’ll be able to say by then with certainty that it will be held in Cortina.
“The feedback was quite positive,” Varnier said. “So I’m optimistic now that the sliding center will happen in Cortina.” Both sliding and hockey test events have been pushed back to the end of 2025 — just months before the games open on Feb. 6, 2026. So how will spectators travel from Milan to Cortina , Bormio , Livigno , Val di Fiemme and Anterselva ?
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