XXV Winter Olympics Milano Cortina 2026

Vercingetorix · Feb 11, 2026

Here’s some. Messed up Italy 🙁 the Gold winner.

arturo7 · Feb 11, 2026

Awesome to have an OF Man on the Scene!

Vercingetorix · Feb 12, 2026

Curling. Little to lazy leave the comfort of hospitality, so here’s some iPhone pictures.

Vercingetorix · Feb 13, 2026

Speed Skating 10k @ Rho Fiera Milano. I have been here once before for a car show. The place is enormous. If I am not mistaken they are also having a leather trade show at the same time.

Vercingetorix · Feb 13, 2026

Duracuir1 · Feb 13, 2026

Great photos. And that Omega clock. After you pack up and head home… will that display look like this?

Vercingetorix · Feb 13, 2026

Shhh, that’s not my clock in my bag.

Vercingetorix · Feb 14, 2026

Forgot to mention my hotel clock. Hotel Genoa in Turin. Literally across the street from the train station in Turin.
It is literally a longer walk from the back of some of these trains to the station, than the station to the hotel.

Vercingetorix · Feb 14, 2026

Time to play guess the sport.

lillatroll · Feb 14, 2026

I am going to go woth Ice Hockey. My wife has been watching the games every day, all day. I suppose having 7 brothers might influence ones interest in sport.

Vercingetorix · Feb 14, 2026

Not my best effort with the iPhone here, may have better when I can get them off my camera. Decided I wanted to watch hockey and not take photos so as not to miss the action. Wish I had read the rules for photography as they only allow lenses less than 200mm in length as I think @Archer mentioned for Australian tennis. I don’t really have anything that would work lens wise, but I could left 2 of my bigger lenses at home.

Vercingetorix · Feb 14, 2026

Almost forgot. The mascots are Ermines.
Milo and Tina. I think the little one is Flo, the environmental mascot.

Vercingetorix · Feb 15, 2026

Today is a forced day off, even though we both need it. We are staying in Torino which is a 50 minute train from one of the event locations. We had tickets to see USA vs Germany in ice hockey at 9:15 tonight at an arena on the other side of Milano from us. The last train to Torino leaves at like 9:30 so we had to sell our tickets, so not a huge financial loss. You can’t know these schedules buying tickets a year in advance, lesson learned. We had to skip Woman’s biathlon because the shuttles from biathalon to Cortina took 3 hours. So for the day in Torino we are not seeing, the shroud, not seeing the Egyptian museum, not seeing the armory museum, not seeing the Automobile museum, We are going to IKEA. And no I am not crazy, just wait a few hours.

Vercingetorix · Feb 15, 2026

The building is a ginormous ex Fiat factory built in 1923. It’s like a 1/2 mile long. In it is IKEA, hotels, a museum and a shopping center. The cars were built bottom up and tested on the roof and driven down the spirals on ends. Seems pictures are giving me troubles. Must be my new hotel internet.