OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2026 MILANO-CORTINA WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES IN ITALY
The Olympic skier came rushing down from the top of the Alpine where men and women dressed in traditional clothes were having fun down the slope of the snowy mountain, the lives of the Italians were highlighted in a simple but happy scenes of normal people living peacefully as it may seem. A glimpse of the Vatican in Rome, the bellfry, the sound of the bell then countdown from 30 to 1.
The stadium opens up with an Angel dancing in the "museum" where treasures of marble of prominent statues are on display. Angels and other characters of importance dressed in metallic silver danced to the rhythm of a classic music more like an opera. Everything in this scene is all White.
The next stage play with All Black theme. A female conductor dressed in stunning black gown while being chased by paparazzi. The stage has turned into giant paint pallette and 3 giant paint tubes above them were visible and the tubes had its primary colors: Red,, Blue, Yellow. The mixture of such colors or two color combination resulted to another color. Then came along an array of colors: men and women dressed as Mona Lisa, da Vinci, Coffee pot, Pinocchio, Roman soldiers and other legendary Italian characters. It shows the Italian's culture of Fine Arts, Architecture, and literacy in the name of ARTS, Fashion, Passion and sense of drama.
Cara, a famous Italian in sing dance repertoire with the guys all wearing gold emblem suits.
Next, Mariah Carey the singer ( Is she Italian? She's American right?) dressed in a stunning beautiful white gown with glitter accents and white feathered boa sung, "Volare, Cantare" in a different tone. Then in a high pitch tone changed from Italian song to English of "Nothing is Impossible."
The Flag Raising Ceremony: Women dressed in green, white, red Armani suits ( the last design by Giorgio Armani before he passed away, RIP) representing the Flag of Italy. A Vogue supermodel brought the flag and hand it over to the Italian soldier. The flag was raised and an Italian singer dressed in black gown started singing the Italian national anthem. Flag raising ceremony also happened in another Olympic Venue.
Representation of the Five Olympic Rings: Choreograph dancers dressed in green/lime tie-dye chiffon outfit? First it was one ring to 2 rings up above the dancers. Then the two rings merged and so on. All five rings in just one color GOLD.
PARADE OF NATIONS. PARADE OF ATHLETES: 90 COUNTRIES. 2,900 ATHLETES
CANADA'S POPULATION = 41. 2 MILLION with 206 ATHLETES FOR THE OLYMPIC
OMG! PHILIPPINES has Olympic Athletes for Winter Games! Surprise!!
Next stage, Vaudeville skit dancing from early 40's featuring old songs from gibberish to the future of Techno also features the hockey, snowboarding and other games.
Mike doesn't work that an Italian woman has to use sign language. When the mike finally works all she can say is WELCOME.
Celebration of all the Flags at center stage.
SPEECH from the Italian Businessman/ President of the Italian Olympic Committee- Giovanni Malago. Message is all about Tradition, Respect, Empowerment, Friendship, and Excellence.
SPEECH from the new IOC President - Kirsty Coventry, greetings to the President of Italy- Sergio Mattarella, Olympic Athletes, etc. Message is about Strength, Solidarity, Sacrifices, Friendship, Compassion and how to be Human.
World famous Soprano Andreas Botticelli rather BOCELLI sang a classic Italian song.
THE TORCH RELAY has finally came to the stage/podium and the Olympic Athletes had lit the Flame (Cauldron) which is a Da Vinci Knot - looked more like a huge Atom.
AND THE GAME BEGINS...
GOOD LUCK! 🙌🙏💓
Photo Images thr. CBC NEWS NETWORK
Graze!
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