American athletes receive an enthusiastic welcome at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony MILAN — American athletes received an enthusiastic welcome at the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics,

The Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics kicked off on Friday with an unprecedentedly widespread opening ceremony.

For the first time, two Olympic cauldrons, one of the symbols of the Games, were lit simultaneously and will burn throughout - one at Milan's Arco della Pace (Peace Arch) and the other in Cortina's Pi...