During every medal ceremony at the Olympic Games, the flags of the countries represented by the winners are raised behind the podium. But one flag unites all the competitors: the Olympic rings.

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the ...

A group of high school students plan to keep their new flags all their lives, as a souvenir of this historic political and Olympic moment that they traveled across their nation to witness. They joined ...

Having two flag bearers for one country is a new development. Only one athlete from each participating nation was chosen as the flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when ...

MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — Two Team USA star athletes will help close out the 2026 Winter Olympics. Standout Olympians Hilary Knight and Evan Bates will carry the U.S. flag during the Games' ...

She competed at two Olympics, carried the flag at Moscow 1980 — even if it was the wrong one — and won eight Commonwealth ...