Denmark already achieved what some consider its equivalent of the “Miracle on Ice” at the 2025 IIHF World Championship last May. Now, it heads to the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 hoping to somehow top that.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric about taking control of Greenland has stirred up national pride in Denmark, which oversees the semiautonomous island.

Danish sisters Madeleine and Denise Dupont have competed together at three previous Winter Olympics, and they are back in action at the Milan-Cortina Games.

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So how does this affect the Olympic Games? Research referenced by the International Olympic Committee shows that of 93 current Winter Olympic host locations, only 52 are likely to remain snow-secure by 2050. By the 2080s, that number could fall to just 30 if emissions remain at today’s levels.

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