Live Coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is Tomorrow, Feb. 6th on NBC and Peacock; Live Coverage Begins at 2 p.m. ET, with Primetime Coverage at 8 p.m. ET/PT

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The American singer Mariah Carey, a featured performer, took the stage at San Siro stadium, a century-old landmark in Milan, opening with “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu,” better known as “Volare.” Other featured performers will be Andrea Bocelli and the Italian rapper Ghali.

Back at the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, Hall didn’t just show up — he showed out, snagging Olympic gold for Team USA in freestyle skiing and cementing himself as one of the sport’s biggest stars. As one admirer recently put it: “got lost in his eyes.” Another watching him on the slopes wrote, “Omg he’s a god.”

Olympic athletes are not paid by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but are instead paid by their respective countries. The IOC, instead, redistributes its funding to the development of sporting activity around the world, according to CNN.

Its entire contingent is one athlete: Aruwin Salehhuddin, a 21-year-old Alpine skier. At the opening ceremony, she alone hoisted the Jalur Gemilang, the name for the Malaysian flag that means “Stripes of Glory.”

Olympic athletes are going to have quite a famous fan cheering for them during the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

As a certified mental performance consultant, Drake professor Stacy Gnacinski is in Italy helping coach Australia's Winter Olympics athletes.