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The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics are underway after the lighting of the Olympic cauldrons and the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony.
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics kicked off with an opening ceremony on Friday that averaged 21.4 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings and digital data from Adobe Analytics.
Fresh off his appearance at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Vice President JD Vance got cozy with YouTube star and influencer Jake Paul at another event with decidedly less booing. The two watched the U.S. women's national hockey team defeat Finland in a preliminary matchup in Milan.
The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games kicked off to a solid ratings start with its opening ceremony reaching seeing a 34% uptick from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony, which kicked off at 11 a.
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Olympics opening ceremony in Milan was lacking snow, but tiny winter wonderland was on its sidelines
The Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan on Friday dazzled with highlights like a Leonardo da Vinci-inspired cauldron and Mariah Carey singing in Italian
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"I was so thrilled to hear that Italy was taking on this Olympics, just because I had such an incredible time in (in 2006)," said White during the broadcast
Milan's San Siro Stadium played the role of primary host. But, in the spirit of these unusually widespread Games, simultaneous celebrations were also held in the clusters of Livigno, Predazzo and Cortina d'Ampezzo, which — for the first time ever — lit a second Olympic cauldron.