2026 Winter Olympics br to Be Held in Italy The games will be set in the northern areas of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Italy, which last held the br Winter Olympics in 2006, beat br out Sweden for hosting duties. Italy PM Giuseppe Conte, via IOC @Olympics, via Twitter Cortina d'Ampezzo previously hosted the games over br 60 years ago in 1956. Recently, the Winter Olympics have been br held in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 and br Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018. For 2022, they will be br hosted by Beijing, China.