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French Alps 2030 Organizing Committee President Edgar Grospiron (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

CEO of French Alps 2030 Organizing Committee Resigns

The Organizing Committee of the French Alps 2030 Olympic Winter Games, known as Cojop, has lost another key team member after Chief Executive Cyril Linette resigned from his role following a dispute with President Edgar Grospiron. A statement by the Games organizers revealed that Linette had quit at a board meeting on February 22 in […]

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A Look Ahead to the 2030 French Alps Olympic Winter Games

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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Team U.S.A. athletes emerge at San Siro in the Opening Ceremony (Image courtesy of Jason Gewirtz)

25 Moments That Defined The 25th Olympic Winter Games

[Editor’s Note: For Jason Gewirtz’ Oddities and Observations at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, click here, and for all of SportsTravel’s coverage of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, click here.] The Olympic Winter Games is always a spectacular occasion, and any global event in Italy promises to deliver its own style of romance and decadence. […]

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Megan Keller scored the winning goal in overtime against Canada to give the U.S. its third Olympic gold medal in women's hockey. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. Medalist Tracker: Golden Women’s Hockey Roster Highlighted By PWHL Stars

For all the talk about the return of NHL players to the Olympic Winter Games for the first time since 2014, women’s hockey is having a similar milestone Games of its own. This year marks the first time players from the three-year-old Professional Women’s Hockey League have taken part in the Winter Olympics. In all, […]

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The ISU Home of Skating is operating at a hotel near the figure skating venue in Milan. (Photo by Jason Geiwrtz)

ISU Builds ‘Home of Skating’ to Grow Sports

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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Tabby Stoecker, left, and Matt Weston, right ((AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

GB Olympic Medallist Tracker: Their Road to Glory in Italy

[Editor’s Note: For the U.S. Medalist Tracker, click here.] The 2026 Olympic Winter Games are taking place in Italy, hundreds of miles away from the hometowns of the Team GB athletes who have journeyed there in search of fulfilling a dream. Of course, some members of the British contingent have had a longer road than […]

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Sophie Goldschmidt has been president and CEO of U.S. Ski & Snowboard since 2021. (Photo by Jason Gewirtz)

SportsTravel Catches Up With U.S. Ski & Snowboard President and CEO Sophie Goldschmidt

Jason Gewirtz has been on the ground in Italy throughout the Winter Olympics, talking with CEOs of various U.S. national governing bodies. Check out each interview here: Matt Farrell, U.S. Figure Skating Dean Gemmell, USA Curling Pat Kelleher, USA Hockey Aron McGuire, USA Bobsled/Skeleton Ted Morris, US Speedskating CORTINA — Skiing and snowboard are, of course, […]

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Ted Morris is executive director of US Speedskating. (Photo by Jason Gewirtz)

SportsTravel Catches Up With US Speedskating Executive Director Ted Morris

Jason Gewirtz has been on the ground in Italy throughout the Winter Olympics, talking with CEOs of various U.S. national governing bodies. Check out each interview here: Matt Farrell, U.S. Figure Skating Dean Gemmell, USA Curling Sophie Goldschmidt, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Pat Kelleher, USA Hockey Aron McGuire, USA Bobsled/Skeleton MILAN — Speedskating in the […]

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Dean Gemmell is CEO of USA Curling. (Photo by Jason Gewirtz)

SportsTravel Catches Up With USA Curling CEO Dean Gemmell

Jason Gewirtz has been on the ground in Italy throughout the Winter Olympics, talking with CEOs of various U.S. national governing bodies. Check out each interview here: Matt Farrell, U.S. Figure Skating Sophie Goldschmidt, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Pat Kelleher, USA Hockey Ted Morris, US Speedskating   CORTINA — Every four years, curling becomes the […]

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The signing ceremony of the host city contract for the 2029 Asian Winter Games in Almaty, Kazakhstan (Credit: OCA)

Almaty, Kazakhstan, Replaces NEOM as 2029 Asian Winter Games Host City

The Olympic Council of Asia has announced that the 10th Asian Winter Games in 2029 will be staged in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, which replaces the planned city of NEOM in Saudi Arabia as the host of the event. It comes just weeks after the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the OCA had confirmed that […]

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