Here's what to know about the Parade of Nations in the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony and how the country order is determined.
In the last Olympics, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, the U.S. went second-to-last as athletes paraded down the Seine River. The logic there was similar: Los Angeles is hosting the next summer Olympics in 2028.
Every torch has a designer. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, that designer is MIT engineer and architect Carlo Ratti. A winter sports enthusiast, Ratti owns the architectural firm Carlo Ratti Associati and is originally from Turin,
Americans who top the podium at the Milan Cortina Games will be in line for a $37,500 bonus. Their competitors could collect as much as $800,000.
Get the latest news on the Milan Cortina Olympics. The opening ceremony kicked off the 2026 Winter Games on Friday, Feb. 6.
The start of the Winter Olympics is marked by the lighting of the Olympic cauldron by the torch that traveled from where it was lit in Olympia, Greece and then through Italy leading up to the games.
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