The Olympic flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics officially has begun its long and storied relay toward Milan’s San Siro Stadium, where it will light the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony on February 6, 2026.

Carlo Ratti, the designer of this year’s torch, explains what his torch says about this moment in time. An Olympic torch is a small, flaming time capsule.

Althea Gibson was a pioneer in women's sports. She broke the color barrier in tennis and golf, winning at the U.S. Open, French Open and Wimbledon in the late '50s. Smithsonian curator Eric Jentsch talks about her legacy through the lens of one of her outfits and tennis rackets.

Before debuting as a K-pop idol, Sunghoon trained to become a professional figure skater for a decade

Rain fell steadily as Amy Garff carried the Olympic torch through Saronno, Italy, just north of Milan, but the weather did little to slow her down.

Forty-six years ago, the 1980 Winter Olympic torch relay traveled through Columbia County, with a stop in Hudson, on its way to the Olympic Games in Lake Placid.

Every Olympic Games has a torch. Every torch has a designer. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, that designer is MIT engineer and architect Carlo Ratti.

Some of the biggest stars were honored by carrying the torch on part of its journey from Greece to Milan.

Nearly 30 years ago, Muhammad Ali held a torch and lit a cauldron to kick off the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Damion Thomas, curator of sports for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, about why that moment was so emotional at the time and why it still resonates today.

Paolo Petrecca has resigned as head of the sports division of Italian state broadcaster RAI, the company said on Thursday, two weeks after his error-ridden commentary at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony triggered a revolt among its journalists.

3. ‘Miracle’ (2004) directed by Gavin O’Connor Miracle is based on the 1980 Winter Olympics ice-hockey game dubbed the “miracle on ice”, in which the US men’s team beat the Soviet Union’s – the favoured group and Cold War rival. The film’s real surprise is in its depiction of the Russian players not as villains but simply as the other team.