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The ice hockey competitions of the 2026 Winter Olympics will be played at two venues located in the Milan cluster: the PalaItalia and one of the Fiera Milano pavilions. The men's tournament will have 12 teams competing, and the women's tournament 10. [1]
To qualify directly, a nation had to be ranked in the top eight following the 2023 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.In the IIHF World Ranking system, ranking points from the most recent year were weighted at full value, and points from each preceding year were worth 25% less.
The 2026 Winter Olympics (Italian: Olimpiadi invernali del 2026), officially the XXV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Milano Cortina 2026, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 6 to 22 February 2026 at sites across Lombardy and Northeast Italy.
Olympic rings are seen near the village of Anterselva where the biathlon discipline will take place during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.
When do the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics start? The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are set to begin on February 6, 2026, and will run through February 22, 2026. The Paralympic Games will follow ...
The Olympic ice hockey tournament in PyeongChang in 2018 was held without participation of NHL players for the first time since the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. [102] The favorites to win the gold medal were the Russians due to their domestic league, the KHL , taking an Olympic break and allowing such stars as Pavel Datsyuk and Ilya ...
NHL players participated in five straight Winter Olympics from 1998 to 2014, but concerns about marketing, insurance, travel costs and player injuries prevented the league, the NHLPA, the IIHF and ...
Milan contains four competition venues for four Olympic sports and one Paralympic sport. [4] Construction on a new 16,000-seat ice hockey venue in the Santa Giulia area commenced on 28 November 2023 at an initial estimate of €180 million; however, an additional €70–90 million is reportedly needed due to rising costs of energy and materials.