# Winter Youth Olympic Games 2028 (Dolomiti Valtellina, Italy) - public ticketing

> There is no public ticket ballot or lottery for Winter Youth Olympic Games 2028; the official routes that do exist are below.

- Canonical: https://theticketlottery.com/ballots/winter-youth-olympic-games-2028-public-ticketing
- Sport: Olympics
- Status on 2026-09-08: No ballot
- Public ballot: no
- Access: draw
- Ballot type: none (no ticketing details announced as of 2026-07-07)
- Event dates: 2028-01-15 to 2028-01-30
- Location: Valtellina (Bormio/Livigno, Lombardy), Cortina d'Ampezzo (Veneto) and Trentino (Predazzo, Tesero), Italy
- Organizer: Dedicated Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (YOGOC) led by CONI with the Lombardy and Veneto regions and the Autonomous Province of Trento, under MoU with Milano Cortina 2026; awarded by the IOC at the 143rd IOC Session, Lausanne, 30 January 2025; mainly reuses Milano Cortina 2026 venues
- Entry cost: Not applicable; nothing announced. Prior winter YOGs (Lausanne 2020, Gangwon 2024) were free entry for competitions, with paid tickets only for the Opening Ceremony (Gangwon 2024: KRW 30,000-100,000).
- Eligibility: Not yet published.
- Ticket prices if you win: Not yet published. Precedent suggests free or nominal-price tickets.
- Official site: https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/dolomiti-valtellina-2028
- Last verified: 2026-08-31 (confidence: high)

## Where it stands

No public ticketing or ballot announced as of 2026-07-07 (verified in English and Italian searches; official event page and host-town pages have no ticketing section). The IOC announced the event programme on 2025-12-15 (8-day competition period, ~1,600 athletes, 7 sports, mainly Milano Cortina 2026 venues) with no ticketing details. Ticketing details should emerge during 2027, after Milano Cortina 2026.

## How tickets actually work

Nothing available yet; monitor https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/dolomiti-valtellina-2028. Based on Lausanne 2020 and Gangwon 2024 precedent, expect free entry or free pre-registration rather than a paid public ballot.

## Your odds

Not applicable.

## Good to know

Adversarially verified 2026-07-07. Event dates 15-29 Jan 2028 confirmed as the officially stated window on olympics.com, bormio.eu and Wikipedia; note the IOC programme decision (15 Dec 2025) sets a shorter 8-day competition period within the Games, so the detailed competition schedule may firm up later. No ticketing, ballot or spectator programme found anywhere (searched English and Italian incl. 'biglietti'). Organizer corrected to the dedicated YOGOC led by CONI (awarded 30 Jan 2025, 143rd IOC Session). Prior winter YOGs used free tickets without public ballots, so ballot_exists=no is well supported. dates_estimated set to false: event dates are official and ballot date fields are empty (unknown), not estimates. Caveat: olympics.com blocks direct fetches (timeouts), so official page content was verified via indexed page content and official mirrors (bormio.eu, IOC press feed).

## Sources

- https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/dolomiti-valtellina-2028
- https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/events-and-athlete-quota-for-dolomiti-valtellina-2028-announced
- https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-elects-dolomiti-valtellina-in-the-italian-alps-as-host-of-the-winter-youth-olympic-games-2028
- https://www.bormio.eu/en/landing/yog-en
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Winter_Youth_Olympics