The 2026 Winter Olympics will take place in Milan and Cortina. The last time home Cortina d'Ampezzo had an Olympic moment? 70 years ago. Join us as we go back in time to see what was happening in sports,

Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss reminisce about their 1956 Olympic figure skating triumph, highlighting challenges faced and the legacy they created in the sport.

MILAN (AP) — Tenley Albright can still picture the sun setting over the Dolomites, casting half the rink in shade. She can hear the crowd, bundled up against the cold in the outdoor stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo,

“When I flew in from the United States and found her in bed she could hardly walk,” wrote her father, Dr. Hollis Albright, to the Globe during the 1956 Olympics. Albright had suffered an injury in an early practice: a slash in her leg and a bone bruise that physicians worried at one point was becoming phlebitis.

The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics have returned the alpine town to the Olympic stage - 70 years after it first hosted the Games in 1956.

The 1956 Olympic Games became a significant milestone in the history of this small, picturesque town nestled in the Italian Alps. Yet there are other reasons to look back 70 years.

Jocelyn Murray, a skier who represented Great Britain at the 1956 Winter Olympics, died Feb. 11. The death of Murray, who competed under the name Jocelyn Wardrop-Moore, was not reported in the British media until Wednesday.

A 90-year-old Army veteran who attended the Olympics in Italy 70 years ago will be a volunteer for the Milan Cortina Games closing ceremony.