Overview
- Italian Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini was expected to greet the relay in the town after championing the €118 million rebuild of the Eugenio Monti sliding centre despite environmental and legacy objections.
- Cortina is set to host women's Alpine skiing plus bobsleigh, luge and skeleton at the new sliding track as well as curling during the Feb. 6–22 Winter Games.
- Contractors are racing to finish a new cable car intended to improve spectator access to the ski slopes.
- Earlier in the day the relay passed through Vajont, honoring local memory of the 1963 landslide disaster that killed an estimated 1,900 people.
- The flame began its Italian leg in Rome and is on a roughly 12,000-kilometre route scheduled to conclude at Milan's San Siro stadium on Feb. 6.