The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics formally start with Friday’s Opening Ceremony. Festivities are set to start from Milan’s San Siro Olympic Stadium (dwelling of AC Milan) at 2 p.m. ET.
There might be two Olympic cauldrons for the primary time on the 2026 Games, one situated on the Arco della Pace in Milan, and the opposite at Piazza Dibona in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The two cauldrons are supposed to characterize “harmony between the two Host Cities and the territories of the distributed Games,” according to the official Olympics website.
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Speed skater Erin Jackson and bobsledder Frank Del Duca might be the flagbearers for the United States. Altogether, the nations collaborating within the Games will seem in alphabetical order (in Italian), although Greece will go first as the unique web site of the Olympics, and host nation Italy will end the parade.
Mariah Carey will headline the performers for the Opening Ceremony, which additionally contains Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, singer-songwriter Laura Pausini, rapper Ghali, pianist Lang Lang and opera singer Cecilia Bartoli, along with actors Pierfrancesco Favino and Sabrina Impacciatore (whom American followers would possibly acknowledge from TV sequence “The White Lotus” and “The Paper”).
Along with festivities in Milan, ceremonies and parades that includes athletes will happen concurrently in Predazzo, Livigno and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Start time: 2 p.m. ET
Location: San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy
TV channel/reside stream: NBC, Peacock
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Note: The Opening Ceremony will air once more in primetime at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.
Follow together with Yahoo Sports for the newest updates, highlights and extra from the Opening Ceremony on the Milan Cortina Olympics:
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21-year-old alpine skier Nathan Tchibozo represents Benin within the nation’s first look on the Winter Olympics.
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MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: Flagbearer Lilah Fear of Team Great Britain enters with the workforce in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at San Siro Stadium on February 06, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
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Czech Republic’s flag bearer David Pastrnak (C) and fellow Czech Republic’s athletes parade in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games on the San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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Finland has had a foul run of luck, health-wise, to start out the Olympics, with the ladies’s hockey workforce dealing with an outbreak of norovirus that compelled a quarantine of 14 workforce members and a delay of its match in opposition to Canada.
But that gained’t cease them from representing on the Opening Ceremony!
Athletes from Finland attend the Olympic opening ceremony on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Canada has the second-largest delegation of athletes on the Milan Cortina Olympics with 207. Fun reality, eh?
Athletes from Canada attend the Olympic opening ceremony on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Lucas Pinheiro Braathen attends the Olympic opening ceremony on the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
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Team Brazil got here into the stadium dancing, and their hat-puffy jacket combo would possibly grow to be one of the preferred appears of the opening ceremony.
Brazil’s flag bearer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen parades with different athletes in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games on the San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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With athletes unfold throughout Northern Italy, the parade is happening in a number of places.
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: Flagbearer Francesca Baruzzi Farriol of Team Argentina leads the workforce within the parade in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Piazza Dibona on February 06, 2026 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
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Armenia’s flag bearers Karina Akopova and Nikita Rakhmanin parade with different athletes in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games on the San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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LIVIGNO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: People collect to observe a broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Livigno Snow Park on February 06, 2026 in Livigno, Italy. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
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VAL DI FIEMME, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: Flagbearer Nefeli Tita of Team Greece enters the stadium in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium on February 06, 2026 in Val di Fiemme, Italy. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
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Aerialists carry out in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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Dancers carry out in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games on the San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: Pierfrancesco Favino performs verses of “L’Infinito” in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at San Siro Stadium on February 06, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
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Because these Olympics are happening in several places, the Opening Ceremony will function scenes from Cortina.
Performers participate within the Italian nationwide anthem as individuals maintain smartphones in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games, at Piazza Angelo Dibona in Cortina d’Ampezzo, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / POOL / AFP by way of Getty Images)
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Alongside the IOC president and the president of Italy, U.S. vp J.D. Vance leads the nation’s delegation.
MILAN, ITALY – FEBRUARY 06: Kirsty Coventry (2nd R) , President of the IOC waves in the course of the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at San Siro Stadium on February 06, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
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