OPINION: Milan Cortina should be exemplar of sustainable future winter Olympics

MILAN - The Milano Cortina Olympics have shown an example of a sustainable winter games for the future. You don't want to be building loads of infrastructure in precarious mountain resorts, which have fragile ecosystems. By utilizing existing sport facilities and hosting the games in four clusters in different cities and towns, they shared the load. It was sensible and judicious.

I understand that for the International Olympic Committee, the tradition of the Olympics is about a single urban city being central to celebrating the symbolic virtues, in which the games can spill over out of the stadiums into the wider urban fabric. But in the winter games, reality looms.