📌 Alongside the global award, five continental winners have also been recognised:
🔹 Africa: Racheal Kundananji, Zambia
🔹 Americas: Mónica Elvira Franco Luzcando, Panama
🔹 Asia: Kim Yeon-koung OLY, South Korea
🔹 Europe: Michele Kang, France
🔹 Oceania: Robyn Cockburn, New Zealand
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“Receiving this award highlights how even a grassroots movement can have a significantly positive impact in the lives of many. I hope this inspires many (...) in our community and throughout the world to come together to advance gender equality and drive change through sport,” he said.
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📌 Big congratulations to Abhijit Bhattacharya, a former captain of the Indian men’s national volleyball team, who has been named the Global Winner of the 2025 IOC Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions Awards.
➡️ Full story: www.olympics.com/ioc/news/abh...
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After a challenging performance that saw him go from first to eighth place, he immediately cast aside his personal disappointment to warmly embrace and celebrate gold medallist Mikhail Shaidorov.
The award is organised by the International Committee for Play in collaboration with the IOC.
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05.03.2026 18:49 —
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Emerging from a shortlist of six exceptional finalists, Ilia was chosen for his display of profound sportsmanship during the Men’s Individual event at this year's Winter Olympics.
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05.03.2026 18:47 —
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📌 American figure skater Ilia Malinin has been named as the recipient of the Milano Cortina 2026 Fair Play Award. Congratulations!
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05.03.2026 18:46 —
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🔹 2 NOCs won their first-ever Olympic Winter Games medals:
▪️ Brazil (1 gold: Lucas Pinheiro Braathen - Alpine Skiing – Men’s Giant Slalom)
▪️ Georgia (1 silver: Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava - Figure Skating - Pair Skating)
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04.03.2026 20:10 —
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🔹 92 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) took part, plus Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).
🔹 Benin, Guinea-Bissau and United Arab Emirates competed in their first Olympic Winter Games
🔹 29 NOCs won medals
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04.03.2026 20:10 —
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📌 Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in numbers: record engagement, efficient delivery, world-class performances
🔹 Around 2,900 athletes participated (final number to be confirmed)
🔹 8 sports
🔹 16 Olympic disciplines
➡️ Full story: www.olympics.com/ioc/news/mil...
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04.03.2026 20:09 —
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🤝 It was great to have you!
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The 21-day programme included 78 structured activities across five learning tracks covering Games delivery functions.
Delegations from LA28, the French Alps 2030, Brisbane 2032 and Utah 2034 were using the real-time Games delivery environment to accelerate their own planning and readiness.
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📌 The present and future Olympic Games communication teams in one picture: During the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, more than 300 colleagues, including the comms teams, gained first-hand experience through the IOC’s Observers Programme.
➡️ Full story: www.olympics.com/ioc/news/fut...
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📌IOC Statement on athletes’ safe passage
➡️ In full: www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc...
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By the way, the Olympic Charter says about the medal table: "Representations featuring competition results may be drawn up by the IOC and, with the authorisation of the IOC, by the OCOG, for informational purposes."
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01.03.2026 19:47 —
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Take a look at the medal table from the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. On the left side sorted by the overall number of medals, on the right side by gold medals: www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...
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01.03.2026 19:47 —
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📌 How medals are counted in the medal table of Olympic Games depends on the region of the world. While some draw up a ranking based on the overall number of medals, others sort it by gold medals.
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01.03.2026 19:46 —
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Deutsche Sportjugend und Deutsche Olympische Akademie den 16 bis 19 Jahre alten Talenten aus dem Nachwuchsleistungssport und Ehrenamt eine Erfahrung, die sie hoffentlich lange in sich tragen.
Mein Rat war: Egal wie, ob beruflich oder im Ehrenamt, macht weiter im Sport. Ihr werdet gebraucht.
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01.03.2026 09:37 —
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Es war inspirierend, beim Olympischen Jugendlager während der Olympischen Winterspiele Milano Cortina 2026 mit den Teilnehmern/-innen über die Rolle einer internationalen Organisation wie dem IOC zu diskutieren.
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01.03.2026 09:35 —
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It ranks as NBC Sports’ second-most watched hockey game ever, behind only the USA-Canada men’s gold medal game at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, which had a more favorable puck drop time of p.m. ET (27.6 million viewers).
27.02.2026 09:28 —
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📌 Team USA’s 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in Sunday’s Milan Cortina Olympics men’s gold medal hockey game was watched by 20.7 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and Versant’s USA Network, and peaked at 26.0 million live viewers.
www.nbcuniversal.com/article/near...
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📌 The Olympic flag is back in Albertville, France! Early this week, it returned to the very pole that shone during the 1992 Olympic Winter Games. The journey towardsthe Olympic Winter Games French Alps 2030 has started.
➡️ Full story: www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...
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