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Canadian skater, 42, aiming for Olympic history after ending 16-year retirement
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (658+ words) Deanna Stellato-Dudek is eyeing an Olympic gold medal at the age of 42 at next month's Games At 42, Canadian pair skater Deanna Stellato-Dudek is poised to make her Olympic debut at the Milano Cortina Games, not as a mere participant, but…...
Knighthood and damehood a âperfectâ end to skating career for Torvill and Dean
2+ week, 2+ day ago (560+ words) Ice skating champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said the news of a damehood and knighthood was the "perfect" way to end their careers, as they prepared to hand the mantle on to the next Olympic hopefuls. The pair, who…...
Team GB only taking one short-track speed skater to Winter Olympics
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (382+ words) Niall Treacy will be the only short-track speed skater representing Team GB at the 2026 Winter Olympics Britain's short-track speed skating ambitions for the 2026 Winter Olympics have dramatically scaled back, with Niall Treacy confirmed as the solitary member of the team…...
Winter Olympics 2026: How to watch and key things to know about the Milan Cortina Games
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (416+ words) The countdown is on for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. The torch relay is already underway and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are…...
Winter Olympics schedule and day-by-day events
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (107+ words) Dates and times of all 116 events across 19 days in Milano Cortina next year The 2026 Winter Olympics are just a matter of weeks away now as Milano Cortina gears up to host the quadrennial festival of snow and ice-based sports. Milano…...
Verona's ancient Roman arena gets a modern facelift for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (704+ words) Verona's ancient Roman Arena will receive a modern facelift and become more accessible to people with disabilities ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, where it will host both the Olympic closing ceremony and the Paralympic opening ceremony. Built by the…...
2026 Winter Games ticket sales update as Olympic chief hopes for torch relay boost
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (349+ words) The Winter Olympics get underway in less than two months, with the Paralympics following in March Organisers for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics have sold nearly 70 per cent of tickets, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed on Wednesday, with hopes that…...
Cortina preparing to host heads of state during the Winter Olympics. Mayor won't say which ones
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (519+ words) Mayor Gianluca Lorenzi quipped that so much interest had grown around Cortina that the Games are shaping up to be "Cortina Milan instead of Milan Cortina." Lorenzi declined to name which officials planned to spend at least some of the…...
Watch: Brazilian skater breaks world record with drop down 22-storey ramp
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (108+ words) Larissa Howie | Sunday 28 September 2025 09:47 BST Watch the moment Brazilian skateboarder Sandro Dias skates down a 22-storey building, breaking two Guinness World Records. The 55-year-old skater dropped in from the Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari building in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on Thursday…...
The Boston skating community hosts the world championships even as it mourns plane crash victims
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (822+ words) It has been not quite two months since six members of the Skating Club of Boston died in a plane crash outside of Washington, D The chairs where Jinna Han and Spencer Lane used to sit are still there, and…...