The 2026 Winter Olympics were under way in Milan, Italy, with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance looking on. Team USA is expected to come out into San Siro soon.

There will be 93 countries, plus numerous athletes from Russia and Belarus, competing at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics officially get underway on Friday, February 6, with the Opening Ceremony, which features the flag bearers from every participating country making the march alongside the country’s flag and their countrymates who will be

The 2024 Summer Olympics introduced the world to that pistol-packing dude from Turkey who couldn’t have been more chill as he shot the lights out with one hand in his pocket, and the naturally enhanced pole vaulter from France who knocked the bar off with his own pole,