Italy/Greece-Olympic Flame/2026 Winter Games

Olympic flame for 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games arrives in Italy

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Rome, Italy - Dec 4, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of plane taxiing; plane on tarmac
2. Various of Giovanni Malago (R), president of Milan-Cortina organizing committee, Italian Olympic medalist tennis player Jasmine Paolini (L), holding lantern with Olympic flame disembarking from plane, at airport
3. Various of vehicles
4. Vehicles escorting Olympic flame off airport

Athens, Greece - Dec 4, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Giovanni Malago, president, Milan-Cortina organizing committee (partially overlaid with shot 6/ending with shot 7):
"Milan-Cortina is ready since the beginning of this journey, but at the same time, of course, these last two months, a little more than two months, are important for completing all the items of the organization, which I recognize is very complex, but this is a very feature, characteristic of our Games."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
6. Olympic rings
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7. Signboard showing Olympic rings; reading "Milan-Cortina 2026"
8. Olympic flag

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The Olympic flame for the 2026 Winter Games, commonly known as the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games, arrived in Rome, Italy on Thursday afternoon, marking the start of a series of torch relay events.

Protected in a lantern, the flame landed at Rome's Fiumicino Airport around 17:00 local time, and was carried off the airplane by Italian Olympic tennis champion Jasmine Paolini and Giovanni Malago, president of the Milan-Cortina 2026 organizing committee.

At around 19:00 local time, Italian President Sergio Mattarella received the flame at the Quirinale Palace, marking the beginning of the ceremonies leading to the official start of the flame journey on Saturday.

The flame will stay at the palace until an official lighting ceremony on Friday morning, when the cauldron will be lit in the presence of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry.

The start of the torch relay is scheduled to take place on Saturday morning at Rome's Stadio dei Marmi. Afterward, the relay will traverse 12,000 kilometers over 60 days across Italy, pass through more than 300 municipalities and feature celebrations in 60 cities, reach all 110 Italian provinces, and light up UNESCO sites along the route.

More than 10,000 torchbearers from all walks of life will take part in the relay, including figures from sectors of sports, culture, film and civil society.

The flame will see Christmas in Naples, New Year in Bari, and return to Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 26, 2026, the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Winter Games opening ceremony. The relay will conclude on February 6 at Milan's San Siro Stadium.

"Milan-Cortina is ready since the beginning of this journey, but at the same time, of course, these last two months, a little more than two months, are important for completing all the items of the organization, which I recognize is very complex, but this is a very feature, characteristic of our Games," said Malago earlier in the day at a Olympic flame handover ceremony in Athens, Greece.

The 2026 Winter Games will take place from February 6 to 22, 2026 in eight locations across northern Italy.

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  • ID : 8456041
  • Dateline : Dec 4, 2025
  • Location : Greece;Italy
  • Category : Sport
  • Duration : 1'15
  • Audio Language : English/Nats
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
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  • Published : 2025-12-05 09:08
  • Last Modified : 2025-12-05 18:27:35
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  • ID : 8456041
  • Dateline : 4. Dezember 2025
  • Category : Sport
  • Duration : 1'15
  • Audio Language : Englisch/Originalton
  • Source : China Central Television (CCTV),China Global Television Network (CGTN)
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  • Published : 2025-12-05 18:21
  • Last Modified : 2025-12-05 18:27:35
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Italy/Greece-Olympic Flame/2026 Winter Games

Olympic flame for 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games arrives in Italy

Dateline : Dec 4, 2025

Location : Greece;Italy

Duration : 1'15

  • English
  • Deutsch


Rome, Italy - Dec 4, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of plane taxiing; plane on tarmac
2. Various of Giovanni Malago (R), president of Milan-Cortina organizing committee, Italian Olympic medalist tennis player Jasmine Paolini (L), holding lantern with Olympic flame disembarking from plane, at airport
3. Various of vehicles
4. Vehicles escorting Olympic flame off airport

Athens, Greece - Dec 4, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Giovanni Malago, president, Milan-Cortina organizing committee (partially overlaid with shot 6/ending with shot 7):
"Milan-Cortina is ready since the beginning of this journey, but at the same time, of course, these last two months, a little more than two months, are important for completing all the items of the organization, which I recognize is very complex, but this is a very feature, characteristic of our Games."
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
6. Olympic rings
++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++
7. Signboard showing Olympic rings; reading "Milan-Cortina 2026"
8. Olympic flag


The Olympic flame for the 2026 Winter Games, commonly known as the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games, arrived in Rome, Italy on Thursday afternoon, marking the start of a series of torch relay events.

Protected in a lantern, the flame landed at Rome's Fiumicino Airport around 17:00 local time, and was carried off the airplane by Italian Olympic tennis champion Jasmine Paolini and Giovanni Malago, president of the Milan-Cortina 2026 organizing committee.

At around 19:00 local time, Italian President Sergio Mattarella received the flame at the Quirinale Palace, marking the beginning of the ceremonies leading to the official start of the flame journey on Saturday.

The flame will stay at the palace until an official lighting ceremony on Friday morning, when the cauldron will be lit in the presence of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry.

The start of the torch relay is scheduled to take place on Saturday morning at Rome's Stadio dei Marmi. Afterward, the relay will traverse 12,000 kilometers over 60 days across Italy, pass through more than 300 municipalities and feature celebrations in 60 cities, reach all 110 Italian provinces, and light up UNESCO sites along the route.

More than 10,000 torchbearers from all walks of life will take part in the relay, including figures from sectors of sports, culture, film and civil society.

The flame will see Christmas in Naples, New Year in Bari, and return to Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 26, 2026, the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Winter Games opening ceremony. The relay will conclude on February 6 at Milan's San Siro Stadium.

"Milan-Cortina is ready since the beginning of this journey, but at the same time, of course, these last two months, a little more than two months, are important for completing all the items of the organization, which I recognize is very complex, but this is a very feature, characteristic of our Games," said Malago earlier in the day at a Olympic flame handover ceremony in Athens, Greece.

The 2026 Winter Games will take place from February 6 to 22, 2026 in eight locations across northern Italy.

ID : 8456041

Published : 2025-12-05 09:08

Last Modified : 2025-12-05 18:27:35

Source : China Central Television (CCTV)

Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland

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