US EditionOlympic Flame for Milan Cortina Winter Games Handed to Italian Organizers in Athens
The flame will travel 12,000 kilometers across Italy in a 63-day relay involving 10,001 torchbearers before the Feb. 6 opening ceremony in Milan.
- On Dec. 4, 2025, the Olympic flame was formally handed to Italian organisers in the all-marble Panathenaic Stadium in Athens as Isidoros Kouvelos passed it to Giovanni Malagò, who called the moment inspiring.
- Lit on Nov. 26 in Ancient Olympia, the flame was sparked using a concave mirror and after a nine-day torch relay around Greece burned overnight near the Acropolis and Parthenon, Athens.
- The relay will traverse all 110 Italian provinces over 63 days, covering 12,000 kilometres from Athens to Milan's San Siro Stadium, with about 10,000 torchbearers.
- Despite the severe-rain forecast, Greek organisers shortened the ceremony, and a small hardy crowd enjoyed performances, while concerns persist over cost overruns and venue delays, the International Ski Federation said it was concerned.
- Organisers say the Paralympics run March 6 to 15 and a separate flame will be lit on Feb. 24 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, featuring 116 medal events.
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