'Home away from home' – Olympic Village in Milan prepares to host athletes for 2026 Winter Games

VIDEO SHOWS: INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS OF MILANO OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC VILLAGE / COMMENTS OF HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI SHOTLIST ONLY, COMPLETE SCRIPT TO FOLLOW  SHOWS: MILAN, ITALY (DECEMBER 17, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF BUILDINGS INSIDE MILANO OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC VILLAGE 2. WORKERS NEAR DOOR 3. EXTERIORS OF BUILDING 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI, SAYING: ''So we are in the Olympic Village of Milan. It's the biggest village that we are organizing in the Milano Organizing Committee. We are going to host 1700 residents here, and we mean athletes, technicians, and staff, of course.'' MILAN, ITALY (RECENT) (FONDAZIONE MILANO – CORTINA 2026- Access all) (MUTE) 5. BATHROOM INSIDE VILLAGE 6. VARIOUS OF MASCOTS FOR THE 2026 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC WINTER GAMES / BEDS 7. CORRIDOR 8. VIEW FROM WINDOW 9. BED 10. GADGETS  11. SIGN WITH ROOM NUMBER MILAN, ITALY (DECEMBER 17, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI, SAYING: ''The village is hosting two different typologies of units, a single occupancy or double occupancy. Here we're going to host more than 40 different countries. Here, they will compete in ice hockey, short track, figure skating, and speed skating competitions. This village is composed of six residential buildings, and at level zero of each residential building, we are going to organize specific activations, services, and spaces for the outlets, like the dining hall, like the fitness centre, like the recreational area, and like activation of the partners.'' 13. COURTYARD INSIDE VILLAGE 14. BUILDING 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI, SAYING: ''The village is almost complete. We have received the handover of this village on the first of October. So since that day, since that date, we have started our temporary works that we have to finalize by the first week of January. And so we are aligned with our chrono programme.'' 16. VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI, SAYING: ''So we have six different residential buildings. Each building has seven floors. From the first floor to the seventh, we have the units. At level zero, we have the facilities like the dining hall, the fitness centre, the polyclinic, the recreational area, and the Olympic Village Plaza, in which we are going to have the activation of the partners. So all the spaces to let the athletes be at home away from their homes.' 18. VARIOUS OF BUILDINGS 19. VARIOUS OF INTERIORS 20.  (SOUNDBITE) (English) HEAD OF VILLAGE MANAGEMENT, MILANO CORTINA 2026, FLAMINIA TAMBURI, SAYING: ''The athletes will arrive by the 30th of January, that will be our official opening date. And we are expecting to have them in a very comfortable location, in a very compact location, because the village is not so big, but it's actually small in the sense that it's compact in terms of having all the facilities all together.'' 21. VIEW OF BUILDINGS

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