Personnel disputes within the organizing committee, sponsorship issues, and delays in preparations: four years before the next Winter Games, the problems faced by host nation France are overshadowing the joy of France's record haul of 23 Olympic medals at Milan/Cortina.

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.

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.

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 men's hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is the first tournament with NHL players since the 2014 Sochi Olympics, will feature all 12 teams playing three preliminary games in their respective groups, then all 12 moving on to a single-elimination playoff that will conclude with the gold medal game Feb. 22.

French hockey player Pierre Crinon has been banned by his own nation's federation from playing in the Winter Olympics, after he was ejected for fighting Tom Wilson

The Olympics are organized every four years, so the next Winter Games will take place in 2030. The Opening Ceremony is set for Feb. 1, with the Closing Ceremony on Feb. 17. The 2030 Olympics will be hosted in the French Alps. The games will officially be known as the 2030 French Alps Olympics or French Alps 2030.