2026 Olympics: Known Dates, Logo, Schedule Info for Milano Cortina Games

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are set to officially kick off with Friday's opening ceremony. While fans are gearing up for exciting events like football (soccer), basketball, water polo and gymnastics, it's never too early to take a look ahead at the next iteration of the Olympics, the 2026 Winder Games.

The 2026 Olympics will be held primarily in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. This will mark the fourth time the Olympics have been held in Italy but the first Olympics to feature multiple official host cities.

Italy previously hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the 1956 Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo and the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

While the 2026 Olympics are still nearly two years away, plenty of details are already known.

2026 Winter Olympics

When: February 6-22, 2026

Where: Italy

Host Cities: Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo

Events: 116 Medal Events in 8 Disciplines

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Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were named the host cities in 2019 after winning a vote against another joint bid from Swedish cities Stockholm and Åre. While Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo will serve as the host cities, events will also take place at clusters in Valtellina, Val di Fiemme and Verona.

The 2026 Games will bring another first. The logo, known as "Futura" was selected via an open vote:

The number "26" is clearly visible in the logo and, according to Olympics.com, it is stylized with a single white line that reflects "Milano Cortina 2026's ambition to place sustainability and legacy at its core."

While the 2026 Olympics will feature traditional events like figure skating, ice hockey, speed skating and alpine skiing, eight new events and one new sport will be on display. Ski mountaineering, also called skimo. is a race in which participants must traverse uphill with specialized equipment and then ski downhill.

"Though new to the Olympic Games program, ski mountaineering is a dynamic, fast-growing sport that also boasts more than a century of tradition," United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee chief of sport Rocky Harris said, per Matt Boxler of New England Ski Journal.

While sliding events like bobsled, luge and skeleton are expected to be held in Italy, there's achance that they'll be held elsewhere. After concerns about the ability to reconstruct an abandoned track, a bid was delivered to build a new track just outside of Cortina. While there's no guarantee the new track will be completed on time, Milan-Cortina CEO Andrea Varnier remains optimistic.

"Basically, you have almost the entire shape of the [track] built," Vernier said on July 22, per Les Carpenter of the Washington Post. "...We are confident. Nonetheless, we are still evaluating alternative plans for tracks that are not in Italy."

If sliding-track events are held outside of Italy, it would make the 2026 Games the first Winter Olympics to hold events outside of the host country.

For the first time since the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, the opening and closing ceremonies will be held at different venues. The opening ceremony is scheduled to be held at San Siro Stadium in Milan, while the closing ceremony is set to take place at Verona Arena in Verona.

While complete scheduling and broadcast information likely won't be known until closer to the opening date, Warner Bros. Discovery is set to hold the European broadcast rights, while NBC will hold the broadcast rights in the United States.