Winter Olympics 2026: Opening Ceremony

BBC Two HD

6:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Friday 6 February

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Live coverage of the curtain-raiser to the Games at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. The likes of five-time Grammy Award-winner Mariah Carey, Golden Globe-winning singer-song-writer Laura Pausini, famed tenor Andrea Bocelli and actor and producer Pierfrancesco Favino provide entertainment. Elsewhere, there will be lighting and extinguishing at two separate Olympic cauldrons for the first time, at Arco della Pace in Milan, and Piazza Dibona in Cortina d'Ampezzo, and athlete parades in the latter as well as Predazzo and Livigno