A senior producer and award-winning journalist covering Olympic bid business as founder of GamesBids.com as well as providing freelance support for print and Web publications around the world. Robert Livingstone is a member of the Olympic Journalists Association and the International Society of Olympic Historians.

These five cities wanted to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, but they had second thoughts – how we got a “widespread Games” instead

Eight cities wanted to bid for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Seven submitted applications to host the Games. Four cities withdrew…

February 8, 2026

Italians offered no apologies at the Opening Ceremony of the ‘widespread’ Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics – instead they owned it

The Opening Ceremony ran simultaneously in four locations with the main proceedings held in Milan’s legendary 75,000 seat San Siro…

February 6, 2026

Swiss 2038 Olympic Winter Games bid releases decentralized venue plan with opening ceremony in IOC capital Lausanne – price tag set at 2.2 billion Swiss francs

Officials claim that this would be the first-ever Olympics hosted by an entire country with 10 cantons and 14 municipalities…

January 12, 2026