Winter Olympics 2026 organisers have fixed problems with producing artificial snow
The company responsible for delivering Olympic facilities said the snowboarding and freestyle skiing site will be ready by January 20
Organisers of the 2026 Winter Olympics said on Monday they have solved the problems impacting the production of artificial snow at the site that will host the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events.
On December 16, the organising committee for the Milan-Cortina Games said that it had encountered “a technical problem” with the production of artificial snow at the Livigno site, which was already causing concern.
“Snow production was scheduled to begin on December 20th. On December 12th, at night, a problem arose: a pipe broke,” Fabio Massimo Saldini, CEO of SiMiCo, the company responsible for delivering the Olympic facilities, said in a statement released on Monday.
“After five days, it was fixed. We brought forward snow production, and ... we’ve met the start date.
“We can guarantee 28,000 cubic metres of snow per day. The 53 cannons are all in perfect working order, so we can produce 3,500 cubic metres of snow per hour.”
Saldini added “approximately 160,000 cubic metres of snow” have so far been produced by the system.