{"id":89700,"date":"2026-02-24T03:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/italy-throws-farewell-party-passes-olympic-torch-to-france\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:37","slug":"italy-throws-farewell-party-passes-olympic-torch-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/italy-throws-farewell-party-passes-olympic-torch-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy throws farewell party, passes Olympic torch to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\">Feb 22, 2026, 04:49 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>VERONA, Italy &#8212; The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever.<\/p>\n<p>In declaring the 2026 Games over, International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry told local organizers that they &#8220;delivered a new kind of winter Games and you set a new, very high standard for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next Winter Games will be held in neighboring France, which received the Olympic flag in the official handover earlier in the ceremony. Following the same spread-out model, the 2030 Winter Games will stage events in the Alps and Nice, on the Mediterranean Sea, while speedskating will be held either in Italy or the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618742_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618742_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618742_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618742_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\"lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">The Olympic flag is lowered by the Italian Army Guard of Honor during the closing ceremony before being handed over to officials from France, who will host the 2030 Winter Olympics.\u00a0<cite>Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A total of 116 medal events were held in eight Olympic sports across 16 disciplines, including the debut of ski mountaineering this year, over the course of 17 days of competition. With the final events wrapping up just hours before the ceremony, the 50-kilometer mass start men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s cross-country medals were awarded by Coventry inside the Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Host Italy won its highest Winter Olympic tally ever with 30 medals &#8212; 10 gold, six silver and 14 bronze, crushing the previous record of 20 set at the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your outstanding performance united Italians everywhere and played a fundamental role in the success of the games,&#8221; Giovanni Malag\u00f2, the president of the Milan Cortina Foundation, told the Italian athletes sitting behind him wearing headbands emblazoned with &#8221;Italia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The closing ceremony paid tribute to Italian dance and music &#8212; from lyric opera to Italian pop of the 20th century to the DJ beat of Gabry Ponte, who got the 1,500 athletes on their feet and dancing while color confetti exploded on stage. Italian Achille Lauro delivered the last word with the song &#8220;Incoscienti Giovani,&#8221; or reckless young people, just before athletes who so aptly harnessed their youthful energy for these Games filed out.<\/p>\n<p>The 2\u00bd-hour ceremony opened with a whimsical tribute to Italian lyric opera, with the stage director rousing not only the closing ceremony cast, including Achille Lauro, but also long-dormant opera characters tucked away in crates within the amphitheater&#8217;s tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>On stage, Madama Butterfly in a bright pink and green costume and Aida in golden tiers were unpacked from mirrored crates while 17th century musicians played the joyous &#8220;Libiamo ne&#8217; lieti calici&#8221; from &#8220;La Traviata,&#8221; a nod to the Arena&#8217;s long history as the venue for a summer opera festival.<\/p>\n<p>The opera characters, led by the jester Rigoletto, spilled out into the piazza outside, mixing with the bemused athletes who were flag-bearers for their countries, some of whom pulled out their phones to film.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618710_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618710_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618710_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0222%2Fr1618710_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\"lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Hilary Knight and Evan Bates served as U.S. flag-bearers at the closing ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics.\u00a0<cite>Leonhard Foeger\/Reuters via Imagn Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a later sequence, internationally acclaimed ballet dancer Roberto Bolle made his first-ever aerial performance inside a blazing ring meant to represent the sun. He was lowered to the stage that mimicked the Venetian lagoon, replete with gondolas, where he danced to a haunting song by Italian singer Joan Thiele.<\/p>\n<p>In a key moment, the Olympic flame encased in a Venetian glass vessel was carried into the Arena by Italian gold medalists from the 1994 Lillehammer Games. The Olympic rings illuminated in white appeared high on the stone stairs behind the stage, flanked by national flags, when one raised the flame in the center of the stage.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first Olympics for Coventry, a two-time Olympic champion in swimming, who watched much of the ceremony alongside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.<\/p>\n<p>Some 12,000 spectators joined the athletes and officials for the closing ceremony, which was much more intimate affair than the opening ceremony starring Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli inside Milan&#8217;s San Siro soccer stadium, attended by more than 60,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Milan Cortina Games spanned an area of 22,000 square kilometers (8,500 square miles), from ice sports in Milan to biathlon in Anterselva on the Austrian border, snowboarding and men&#8217;s downhill in Valtellina on the Swiss border, cross-country skiing in the Val di Fiemme north of Verona and women&#8217;s downhill, curling and sliding sports in co-host Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo.<\/p>\n<p>The closing ceremony concluded with the Olympic flames extinguished at the unprecedented two caldrons in Milan and Cortina, viewed in Verona via video link. A light show substituted fireworks, which are not allowed in Verona, to protect animals from being disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>The Milan Cortina Paralympics&#8217; opening ceremony will also take place in the Verona Arena, on March 6, and those Games will run until March 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/48009112\/italy-throws-farewell-party-passes-olympic-torch-france\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 22, 2026, 04:49 PM ET VERONA, Italy &#8212; The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","maa_idioma":"","maa_pais":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2725],"tags":[20261,8103,11856,9802,7567,10528,11425,17400],"class_list":["post-89700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-farewell","tag-france","tag-italy","tag-olympic","tag-party","tag-passes","tag-throws","tag-torch"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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