2026 Winter Olympics News: 60 athletes to test Cortina's controversial Olympic sliding track next week

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Next week, 60 bobsled, luge and skeleton athletes will perform test runs on the controversial sliding centre for next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics.
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Posted: 2025-03-18 12:01:00

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