The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the day's festivities included performances from Mariah Carey,
Azerbaijan has filed a complaint with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over Armenia figure skaters' performance under the song, “Artsakh”—the Armenian word for Nagorno-Karabakh. The Karina Akopova/Nikita Rakhmanin pair skating duo,
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance is in Milan, Italy, to proudly represent the President's delegation at the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Accompanied by his family, Vance is set to join Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a group of America's former Olympic champions in celebrating the games.