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The Olympic Flame at the Winter Games in Milan Cortina may have just been extinguished, but attention is already turning to the next edition: The 2030 Olympic Winter Games in the French Alps. The 2026 event broke new ground in multiple ways. From a social perspective, Olympic digital platforms surpassed 100 million users for the […]
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SportsTravel will be on site at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy, with additional coverage from our bases in the United States and the UK. Follow along for coverage you won’t find anywhere else. Grading the 2026 Olympic Winter Games SportsTravel Publisher Jason Gewirtz was on the ground in Milan and […]
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SportsTravel Publisher Jason Gewirtz was on the ground in Milan and Cortina, Italy. Here are his scores from the Games based on his experience at the event. Opening Ceremony: A- I wanted to give this one a full A+ and there is a case to be made that it deserves one. The dramatic moments were […]
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Following the conclusion of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, LA28 has announced that it has surpassed five million registrations for the LA28 Ticket Draw. Since the ticket draw registration option opened on January 14, LA28 said that it had received an “unprecedented” number of registrations, including 1.5 million within the opening 24 hours, […]
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The United States entered the 2026 Olympic Winter Games favored to reach the gold medal game against Canada — and that’s exactly how the tournament played out. On Sunday morning — 46 years to the day after the Miracle On Ice team of 1980 won gold — Team USA won gold for the first time […]
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George Washington University sports management professor Lisa Delpy Neirotti has just attended her 23rd consecutive Olympic Games, once again playing a volunteer role at the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina. Along the way, she has become a keen observer of the logistics behind the Games, what works and what doesn’t. In this discussion with […]
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The 2026 Olympic Winter Games are taking place in Italy, thousands of miles away from the hometowns of the Team USA athletes who have journeyed there in search of fulfilling a dream. Of course, some members of the United States’ contingent have had a longer road than others to get to the pinnacle of their […]
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After about 10 days on the ground in Milan and Cortina for the Olympic Winter Games, SportsTravel Publisher Jason Gewirtz saw a number of interesting things around both locations and experienced some odd moments as well. Here are some of the most notable behind-the-scenes sights and experiences that filled his notebook — and camera lens […]
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At the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan, new concepts in hospitality could be seen throughout the region. In a first, several U.S. national governing bodies teamed up to launch the Starbucks Winter House at a boutique hotel near the city center. But at its base hotel near the figure skating arena, the sport’s international […]
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Olympic legacy can take many forms. In a traditional sense for host cities, that might be the venues left behind. It might be community initiatives meant to get youth and members of the community inspired to move or be healthy. And in at least one case, there was a direct path from the 2002 Olympic […]
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