Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Ceremonies Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[Henry_Leon 1,621]

Great show  

 

Was expected an amazing ceremony, and we celebrated cultural icons that makes our nation unique 

 

 for the first time there are two Olympic flames at the Winter games: one in Milan and one in Cortina.

[heywoodu 16,237]

Overall, I think the show was quite nice. Nothing really outstanding, besides Andrea Bocelli, but...nice. Just for the love of everything that is sports, let's never, ever do this "opening ceremony in multiple places" thing again, please. That absolutely didn't work, they were cutting away all the time so everyone got barely shown. Plus, you're taking us from inside the massive stadium with 80.000 people or so back and forth to 3 people walking in front of the local town hall of a small village with some locals attending while walking their dogs before going to sleep, so to say. Just don't do that again please.

[nickp1991 1]

It was far better than Patis 2024 Or any other recent opening ceremony

[hoversaBR 685]

There was something like that at Paris 2024, wasn't there? With the surfers doing a sort of opening ceremony with them in Tahiti. Maybe Italy got its inspiration from there. 

[JockCartier 292]

1 hour ago, stepansevs said:

I think parade was longer that usually in Winter games. But it was nice these 4 parades togerher but with some delay. I was affraid that they will come simultanously.

It took about half an hour longer than 2018. Which is fine and I think they factored that in. Problem was the rest of the show was also half an hour long in it's own right. 

[heywoodu 16,237]

4 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Completely agree. One of the greatest football stadiums in the World and with an iconic look. Italians are out of their mind.

It's unbelievable. They do maintenance on, like, nothing at all, and then the one thing they should actually keep in place instead of renew, they destroy  

[Surreal 9]

6 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

America booed, no surprise there 

Crowd did their job with them and Israel. 

[LuizGuilherme 336]

Bro, the hype in Brazil is kinda unexpectable.

 

even my mom is talking about it!!!

 

maybe Lucas dating a famous actriss can help, but TV coverage in the main TV channel is also awesome

[orangeman 2,368]

I don't know if this was mentioned before, but the song that was played during the 1960s portion of the Traveling Through Time in the OC was this:

 

Adriano Celentano wanted to prove that anything that sounded English would do well on the Italian charts. He was proven right when this song became incredibly popular. We studied this song when I studied for my Masters in Applied Linguistics. Honestly, it's a jam regardless of nonsensical language. *There's actually a way better video in black and white with dancers that's superior to this, but I can't find it right now. 

 

 

 

Edit:

 

Here is the better video, but it starts at 2:14. Absolute jam. 

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by orangeman

[De_Gambassi 1,292]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Just for the love of everything that is sports, let's never, ever do this "opening ceremony in multiple places" thing again, please. That absolutely didn't work, they were cutting away all the time so everyone got barely shown. Plus, you're taking us from inside the massive stadium with 80.000 people or so back and forth to 3 people walking in front of the local town hall of a small village with some locals attending while walking their dogs before going to sleep, so to say. Just don't do that again please.

There was a plus side though. Likely a record of athletes attended the ceremony (130 french athletes over 162 pe). As we are not going back to more centralized winter games anytime soon, people will need to figure out smarter way of doing things the next times. You can't just have one hour and half of stargate camera cuts.