The Olympic flag returned to French soil on Monday, less than two years after the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, as preparations began for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps.

MILAN (AP) — We’ve got this. Really, we do. Organizers of the 2030 French Alps Olympics worked Saturday to put a positive sheen on their project that already was on the tightest of hosting schedules before being rocked by inner turmoil.

Amber Glenn arrived at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics to prove that she is still at the peak of her career. The 26-year-old American figure skater made her Olympic debut this year. Glenn’s appearance in the women’s singles made her the oldest American woman in 98 years to skate in that event.

The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo were extinguished as part of a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain,

The Milan Cortina Winter Games will close with a ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, bringing the spread-out Olympics together one last time

Prior to this year’s Milan Cortina dual location, the last time Europe hosted the Winter Games was in 2006 — also in Italy. That year, it was Turin that served as the primary