2026 Winter Olympics ‘On Schedule’

8th August 2025

Last modified on August 12th, 2025

The Milan-Cortina Winter Games take place next February and the organisers say they are confident everything will be ready by the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

“Preparations are progressing steadily and according to the timeline we have set,” Andrea Varnier, the chief executive officer of Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committee, said to the AFP newsagency.

Simico, the public company responsible for delivering the Olympic facilities, has said that “all the planned sports construction projects will be completed before the start of the Olympics.”

Milan-Cortina estimate the final bill will be £4.5 bn.

Of that £3bn is going on infrastructure and £1.5bn on staging the Games.

Organisers have made a point of delivering a low-cost Winter Games after recent large costs.

Sochi, in Russia in 2014, cost at least £30bn.
Pyeongchang, in South Korea in 2018, came in at over £9bn.
Beijing in 2022 in China officially cost £3bn, but financial analysts said that including infrastructure costs the total was around £28bn .

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