Motoko Rich

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The Headlines · One Year in Trump’s America, and the Fed’s Big Moment at the Supreme Court · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

And finally, I recently traveled to Milan less than a month before the opening of the Winter Games to see the Olympic ice hockey rink.

It's one of the big events of the Games.

And I had heard rumors that it wasn't ready.

And when I got there, I saw, indeed, it was not ready.

There were pipes sticking out of the walls, exposed drywall.

There were several levels that were blocked off by what looked like black garbage bags.

A lot of the big screens and instant replay screens were not installed.

So it definitely was a construction site.

Dust everywhere.

This is my third Olympics now, and there's always something that happens at the last minute, scandal, this, that, and the other, but to walk onto a construction site, getting dust all over my backpack and looking up at these seats that are blocked off, it was a little weird.

I talked to Italian Olympic officials and the developer and they said that there are a thousand workers working in shifts around the clock until the beginning of the Olympics to get this rink ready.

And they were all beaming this incredible optimism that was a little bit, you know, a bit of cognitive dissonance.

you know, looking at the evidence of my own eyes.

We also went and visited the city councilor who's in charge of the Olympics for Milan.

And he was sort of almost like, why are you even asking me this?

And he said, look, I'm absolutely confident I'll be ready by February 5th in time for the Olympics that start on February 6th.

That's early, he said.

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