Host country Italy is mosting likely to truly spread out around the honors at the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics with an unmatched 4 flag holders for the opening events.
While the major opening is slated for the San Siro football arena in Milan on Feb. 6, there will certainly likewise be a smaller sized occasion that Friday night in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
” There will certainly be 2 flag holders in Milan and all at once 2 in Cortina,” Italian Olympic Board head of state Luciano Buonfiglio informed RAI state radio on Monday.
Buonfiglio included that there will certainly be male and women flag holders in each area, which International Olympic Board (IOC) head of state Kirsty Coventry accepted the concept throughout a current conference in Switzerland.
Buonfiglio did not introduce the names of the flag holders yet, including that he required to consult numerous sporting activities federations and board authorities very first.
The Olympic fire will certainly be lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on Nov. 26.
The fire will certainly show up in Rome on Dec. 4 and will certainly start its trip throughout Italy 2 days later on.
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The minimal light weight aluminum lanterns are created to place the Olympic fire itself in the limelight, coordinators stated.
Two cauldrons
For the very first time, there will certainly be 2 Olympic cauldrons: One in Milan at the Arco della Speed– a victorious arc developed midtown in the 19th century– and one in Cortina’s main Piazza Dibona.
It will certainly note the 2nd time for a cauldron in Cortina, 70 years after the Towering town organized the 1956 Winter seasons Gamings.
The 2026 video games will certainly be held throughout a substantial swath of north Italy with numerous location collections. On the debut, there will certainly likewise be events and professional athlete ceremonies in Predazzo and Livigno.
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Coordinators of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Wintertime Olympic and Paralympic Gamings exposed the main branding and pictograms at an occasion in Milan on Wednesday.
Russia and Israel
Buonfiglio stated that he was “shocked” by the International Paralympic Board’s current choice to raise the partial suspensions of Russia and Belarus, “due to the fact that the Olympics and the Paralympics (normally) traveling parallel.
” I’m not claiming it’s ideal or it’s incorrect,” Buonfiglio included. “I’m claiming that the method it was managed was worthy of a lot more regard and needs to have been connected better.”
The Milan-Cortina Paralympics will certainly be kept in March.
The IOC verified that it will certainly adhere to the system it made use of at the Paris Gamings in 2015, enabling Russians to contend as Private Neutral Athletes– making use of the French phrase AIN.
Russia and ally Belarus were prohibited from global showing off occasions after Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine in 2022.
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Russian and Belarusian professional athletes have actually been prohibited from contending at the Paralympics as a result of their nations’ functions in the battle in Ukraine.
” Most of us desire sporting activities to continue to be different from national politics,” Buonfiglio stated, days after countless Italians required to the roads in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that likewise came close to the nation’s nationwide football group training facility. “We’re seeing what’s occurring in Gaza. … However we will certainly appreciate the policies. Italy values the policies.”
The IOC stated lately that it has actually never ever reviewed prohibiting Israel.
Buonfiglio was chosen in June to prosper the outward bound CONI head of state, Giovanni Malagò, that still leads the Milan-Cortina arranging board.
