LAUSANNE — Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are promising an Italian Olympics packed with style and elan after winning the right to stage the 2026 Winter Games on Monday. We can look forward to outstanding and sustainable Olympic Winter Games in a traditional winter sports country,” IOC President Thomas Bach said after announcing the winner. Stockholm’s refusal to sign the host contract if the city won was another factor. “What we did this afternoon is we represented successfully the images of our country.”Sweden, a winter sports powerhouse which hosted the Summer Olympics in 1912, has now bid eight times unsuccessfully for the Winter Games. Sweden also failed to land the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Source: National Post June 24, 2019 16:38 UTC