Never winter Olympics have been held in the southern hemisphere of the earth. Now Ushuaia is considering, is a small town on the southern tip of Argentina, to apply for 2026. Snow is not lacking in fire country.
Further South is hardly possible: Ushuaia, 3,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires in the direction of the South pole and is located just 150 kilometres from Cape horn removed, is considering jointly with the Argentine capital, an application for the Olympic winter games of 2026. “As a Marketing strategy, the application is good,” says Martin Bianchi, Event coordinator of the local tourism Agency Infuetur. “If you want to host the winter games, but actually, you have to have a very serious mind.”
Argentina had brought up in the past week, a complete surprise to the game. In view of the difficulties in the official candidates, Calgary, Stockholm and Milan, Cortina d’ampezzo, the South Americans could be an Alternative. Initially, it was unclear whether Buenos Aires and Ushuaia, want the games really. Or whether it is more important to put the previous applicant under pressure, to put a little more into it. So far, an application to Argentina was only for the winter games 2030 in the conversation.
The infrastructure would have to be expanded
Also for the next youth Olympic games in 2024, the South Americans are interested in, after the summer Olympic youth games held in October in Buenos Aires. “After this overwhelming success, there can be no doubt that Buenos Aires could be in the future a great city for the Olympic games,” said IOC President Thomas Bach.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleCalgary, again?
As early as 1964, and in 1968 had tried Calgary to the games in 1988, The winter games were held in the 1.3-million-inhabitant metropolis at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Especially to the cost of the games in 2026, there is now a dispute. Only shortly before the decisive meeting of the city Council, the government of Canada and the province of Alberta agreed to a stripped-down financial concept.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleMany of the venues are already there
With a comparatively small Budget of “only” 3.5 billion euros, the Canadians calculate. Your design provides for the modernization of eight existing venues. Including the “Saddledome” (photo), in the Kati Witt won the 1988 Gold. It is simply the construction of a new hall for figure skating and short track, as well as the establishment of a medium-sized Arena, with around 6000 seats.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleCool Runnings reloaded?
A Chapter of the winter games 1988 in Calgary continues to be one of the most beautiful in Olympic history: ridiculed By many, the four-man bobsleigh from Jamaica qualifying for the games. There, the Team in the ice channel collapsed due to a driving error, conquered but still the heart of winter sports fans. The story is later made into a film by Disney, and even in the cinema’s success.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleReturns to Olympia to Stockholm?
Already to host the games in 2022 had sought to Stockholm, the application is then withdrawn. Also this time, the application Committee has to fight. Because so far, the IOC demanded state guarantees are missing. And the newly elected city Council of Stockholm granted at the beginning of October of the Olympic candidacy of a cancellation. The bid Committee went on, as if nothing had happened.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleA Century Of Building The Olympic Stadium
“Gold for Sweden in the tug-of-war!” it was the first Time the Olympic games in Stockholm Station.In 1912, the summer matches of the season in the Olympic stadium (photo) of the Swedish capital. In 1956, in the context of the games in Melbourne, found the horse-riding contests held there. Except in Stockholm, the competitions 2026 in Are (Alpine skiing) and Falun (Nordic competitions) will take place.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleHappy ending Are?
Ten Times has sought Sweden’s oldest ski resort, unsuccessfully, to Olympia. Time together with Lahti/Finland, Östersund or Gothenburg. With Stockholm, it should work now in the eleventh start-up. Are is regularly the venue of the Alpine Ski world Cup, in 2019, there rises also the alpine world Ski Championships. Are 700 kilometres to the North-is located just to the West of Stockholm.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleFalun – more winter sports is not
Falun is something like the cradle of Swedish skiing, with regard to the Nordic disciplines. Here, Sweden’s ski Federation has its headquarters, here the world Cup race in cross-country skiing are held each year. 1954, 1974, 1993 and 2015, the 37,000 residents, was a community venue for the Nordic world Ski Championships. And in the case of two failed Olympic applications (1988 and 1992), was a Falun also part of the concept.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleHome advantage for Italy is
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleSki circuit in the Dolomites
Anyway, environmentalists complain that the Valle del Boite, in the Cortina, which could not cope with volume of construction for modern games. Unlike Milan, Cortina D’ampezzo has experience with Olympia. 1944 should take place in the winter games, but the second world war made that impossible. In 1956, the small-6500-inhabitant municipality received in the Dolomites, the re-award.
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Olympic candidates 2026: All the jiggleTonis heirs are sought
At that time an Austrian was crowned the biggest Star of the winter games: the only 21-year-old Toni Sailer won in the Alpine skiing a three-Time Gold. And the Italian ski resort became established as a winter destination of the world. The Rich and the Beautiful came, the movie hero James Bond drove over the tracks, now dreams Cortina back of Olympic glory.
Actually, the IOC wants to award the winter games is again reinforced in the traditional winter sport areas in order to keep the costs low. In Ushuaia, however, there’s a lot of work to do. “The infrastructure in the ski resort of Cerro Castor is modern and good, but it would have to be extended,” says Bianchi, was launched in 2006 at the Games in Turin, even in the long run. “The cross-country routes should be strengthened further. Ski jumps or Bobsled, sledge and Skeleton tracks there is not at all.”
Ushuaia is Scandinavia’s comparable
In the case of the athletes, the Region is, however, popular. In the European summer of professionals regularly come to the Training to Cerro Castor, as the last sports delegations from France, Italy, Slovakia and Russia. 2015, an estimated 700 ski instructors to the Congress Interski met in the provincial town at the end of the world. “We have in the fire country, the best scenery and the best snow in South America.
Ushuaia is in Scandinavia is comparable, one of the few places in the world where there is snow practically at sea level,” says Bianchi. “The snow in the fire country is the latitude of snow, no amount of snow. It also provides a large space for the long-run, there is not in the pure mountain areas. In Europe, there’s always less snow.”
Olympic calendar would need to be changed
Can lift the small town of Ushuaia in southern Argentina at the Olympic winter games?
Ushuaia, in the language of the long-extinct indigenous Yamana “The Bay that penetrates the Land to the West”. It is one of the southernmost cities in the world and is situated on latitude 54 – a situation comparable to Kiel or Moscow in the Northern hemisphere. The average temperature in the coldest month of Winter is 1 degree Celsius. This, however, is there in July. Snow is usually from June to October.
The winter games actually are for the first Time in the southern hemisphere, held, would need to be changed to the Olympic calendar. And this is probably the biggest shortcoming of Argentina: The enthusiasm for the Olympic winter games is likely to be with the Fans in the USA and Europe in high summer.
jst/asz (dpa)