Starting at the 2026 Olympics in Milan/Cortina d’Ampezzo, the oldest Olympic combined skiing event will become a double event, featuring pairs of one specialist in downhill and one specialist in slalom, the International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday. (IOC), quoted by AFP.

From the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, alpine dueling will become a pair competition

“This time it will be a team combined with two specialists, one from the speed competition and one from the technical competition, and not the same skier who will show his versatility in two races,” Keith McConnell, sports director, explained to the press. within the framework of the IOC.

Thus, the Olympic Court approved the proposal of the International Skiing Federation, “which will apply the same format at its own competitions in the following seasons,” the representative of the IOC also reported.

This modification changes the nature of the same mountain duel invented in 1932 by the Swiss from Wengen to bind speed in slalom, and the first mountain competition included in the Olympic Games four years later in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, reports Agerpres.