by flamealivepod | Oct 14, 2026 | Blog, Cortina 1956
“Olympian” and “criminal” are two words that aren’t often used together in the same sentence, but in our year-long look at the Cortina d’Ampezzo ice, we found an interesting true crime tale. A Winter Olympic ice hockey tournament is... 
by flamealivepod | Oct 8, 2026 | Podcast, Cortina 1956, Ice Hockey
The ice hockey tournament at the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics had been Canada’s playground. The country had won six out of seven Olympic ice hockey tournaments and were ready to capture another gold medal, but they had two things playing against them in these... 
by flamealivepod | Aug 20, 2026 | Podcast, Cortina 1956, Speedskating
We’re going back to the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics and the last Olympic speed skating competition on natural ice. Lake Misurina proved to be a fantastic venue as records fell by the dozens over the four races of the speed skating competition. We’ve got... 
by flamealivepod | Aug 6, 2026 | Podcast, Cortina 1956, Nordic Combined, Ski Jumping
The sports of Nordic combined and ski jumping rarely make international headlines, and when they do, it’s often for controversy. The latest controversy over ski suit tampering led to coaching suspensions and threatened to become one of the storylines at Milano... 
by flamealivepod | Jun 25, 2026 | Podcast, Cortina 1956
In our year-long look back at the Cortina 1956 Winter Olympics, we head to the cross-country skiing stadium (built with filming in mind) for more Olympic competition than ever before. In the men’s program, the 18K became a 15K, and a 30K was added, so now there were... 
by flamealivepod | Jun 15, 2026 | Blog, Bobsled, Cortina 1956
The United States and the technology race in Olympic bobsled by Jill Jaracz When we talked about the bobsled competition at Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956, we touched on the way the sleds were changing, but we could have spent the entire episode just talking about bobsled...