CEREMONIAL OPENING OF THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES IN ITALY: Anja Ilić and Miloš Milosavljević Carried the Flag of Serbia! (VIDEO)

The Winter Olympic Games are being held this year from February 6 to 22 in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, and this Friday the ceremonial opening took place at the iconic San Siro stadium.

Serbia is represented at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games by Aleksa Tomović in alpine skiing, as well as Anja Ilić and Miloš Milosavljević in Nordic skiing.

In addition to San Siro, ceremonial events are also being held in Predazzo, Livigno, and Cortina, and the Serbian team will have its representatives in Predazzo, where the flag of the Republic of Serbia was proudly carried by Anja Ilić and Miloš Milosavljević.

As for the main ceremony in Milan, it was opened with a song by the famous singer Mariah Carey.

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For the first time in the history of the Winter Olympic Games, the parade of athletes was held in a decentralized format, at competition venues in Milan, Livigno, Predazzo, and Cortina. Four locations, one rhythm, one vision.

Athletes paraded at locations closest to the venues where they competed, turning the geography of the Games into a unique, shared stage. Such a dispersed parade became a metaphor for global harmony – hearts beating simultaneously in multiple places, a world capable of sharing the same time and the same spirit. It was a gesture of unity that transformed distance into connection and sport into a universal language.

In line with Olympic protocol, the parade began with the athletes from Greece and concluded with the Italian representatives, respecting the alphabetical order of delegations. A total of 92 delegations and “individual neutral athletes” took part.

Each delegation selected two flag bearers, one woman and one man, in order to achieve gender equality, while the host country, Italy, exceptionally appointed four flag bearers – two in Milan and two in Cortina.

Anja Ilić and Miloš Milosavljević carried the flag of Serbia at the opening ceremony.