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

Brazil's skeleton racer Nicole Silveira is the only Team LGBTQ athlete selected by their country for the Parade of Nations at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The post Meet the 1 out LGBTQ athlete who is a flagbearer at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony appeared first on Outsports.

The colors signify five continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. According to Rule 8 of the Olympic Charter, “The Olympic symbol expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.”

Coubertin first created the iconic design in 1913, at a time when the amount of countries competing in the Games were significantly smaller than today. The widely believed notion is that the rings and the five individual colours - blue, black, yellow, green and red - represent five inhabited continents, with the Americas counting as one.

The Winter Olympics promise plenty of high adrenaline, fierce competition, historic firsts and emotional moments over 2 1/2 weeks. Here are some of the names and narratives to keep an eye on.

Get your poles ready. Here's a list of every skiing event in the Winter Games, from ski jumping to biathlon.

Team USA bobsledders Kaysha Love and Hunter Powell both started off their careers as track and field stars at the University of Nevada, but after Kaysha made the switch in 2022, she convinced Hunter to try the sport two years later. In July 2025, the couple got engaged, and now they’re heading to their first Olympics together as fiancés.

It’s been 106 years since “ice hockey,” so called to differentiate it from the game that’s played on grass, made its Olympic debut, the Winnipeg Falcons winning the historic first gold medal at Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, representing Canada.