No Olympics is ever the same: at every Games the IOC tinkers with the format, adding new events, dropping some sports and bringing in others.
Only one sport is brand new in Milano-Cortina: ski mountaineering – ‘skimo’ to those in the know – which makes its debut this week in Bormio. Organisers hope it will grab the public’s imagination in the same way as biathlon, this Games’ unexpected hit, or skeleton in the UK after a gold rush at the Cortina Sliding Centre.
