Pressure is building on Italian authorities to fast-track preparations for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics as funding shortfalls and unseasonably warm temperatures threaten progress, even as the head of world skiing calls for a radical rethink of how future Games are staged.
With the Olympics set to open in February, International Ski and Snowboard Federation President Johan Eliasch said Italyβs difficulties reflect deeper, systemic challenges confronting winter sport.
Rising costs, mounting climate pressure and the legacy of underused venues, he argued, are intensifying calls for a new hosting model.
Support is growing within international sport for a rotation system in which a limited group of established locations would host the Winter Games on a
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