The 2026 Winter Olympic Games (Milan, Italy. February 6th, 2026 - February 22nd, 2026)

[Deadd2009]

Who is excited?!​

 

[Bobby Barrows]

It's that year again, the year of the Olympics, the Time for everyone to come together and celebrate humanity as a whole, through pomp and circumstance, through blood, sweat, tears, and brotherhood. The Olympics begins on 26 July and end on 11 August.

It is Paris's third time hosting the Olympics, and additionally this will be the 100th year anniversary since the 1924 Paris Olympics. It will also be the first year for which Breakdancing will be introduced as an Olympic contest.

Who here is excited for the Games?​

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Russian and Belarusian athletes barred from participating in opening ceremonies of Paris Olympics

Entrants can compete as "Individual Neutral Athletes," but the Russian and Belarusian flags and national anthems will not be seen or heard.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Deadd2009]

Russia will be banned as long as they're at war with Ukraine, this is inevitable.

 

[Sky]

Russian and Belarusian athletes barred from participating in opening ceremonies of Paris Olympics

Entrants can compete as "Individual Neutral Athletes," but the Russian and Belarusian flags and national anthems will not be seen or heard.

www.nbcnews.com

Too soft, kick em all out

Israelis too

 

[epo1984]

So I live about an hour north of Paris (by TGV train).

As a sporting event, we're all super excited about the olympics coming here, but it would be fair to say that the mood here is...cautious.

A lot of worry that parts of the logistics will be undermined by strikes by unions here. Also a feeling of fear of terrorism (north of France and Belgium has higher than average incidences of extremism and terrorism) and the international conflicts aren't helping allay those concerns.

 

[Doom]

Who is excited?!​

Thank you for starting this thread. Much appreciate it.

 

[Deadd2009]

Not a problem!

 

[Crocker]

Decent time zone for me so I’ll be happily watching sport what I only watch every four years.


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[Chris]

 

[Apoho Creed]

Sucks that Kawhi had to bow out but the US are dangerous as hell especially with their bigs. I'm thinking only France could Matchup with them with size. Good to see as well the Team come back from being down and take over the Game.

 

[Deadd2009]

US advanced to the quarterfinals in Rugby today. US womens soccer is on later on tonight as well.

 

[Chris]

French rail network hit by arson attacks before Olympics opening ceremony

‘Massive’ coordinated attacks on TGV bring severe disruption to France’s busiest rail lines

www.theguardian.com

France’s high-speed rail network has been hit by coordinated “malicious acts” including arson attacks that have brought major disruption to many of the country’s busiest rail lines hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

The state-owned railway operator, SNCF, said arsonists had targeted installations along the lines connecting Paris with the country’s west, north and east and that traffic would be severely disrupted across the country during the weekend.

 

[Deadd2009]

Removed Canada coach 'likely' knew about drone

Canadian Olympic Committee CEO David Shoemaker said new information from Soccer Canada showed suspended women's head coach Bev Priestman was likely aware of the drone use that has caused a scandal at the Paris Olympics.

www.espn.com

 

[Chris]

Organizers say that arson attacks that paralyzed large parts of France's high-speed rail network won't have a big impact on today's opening ceremony.

From NBC