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Olympics opening ceremony live updates as 2026 Winter Games kick off in Milano Cortina
CBS News ^ | 02/06/2025 | Lucia I Suarez Sang, Aliza Chasan, Kiki Intarasuwan, Melissa Gaffney, Taylor Johnston

Posted on 02/06/2026 2:06:03 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

More than 2,900 athletes from 92 national Olympic committees will compete at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games. The United States will have the largest presence with more than 230 athletes, followed by Canada with 210 athletes and host nation Italy with 196.

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NBC will air an enhanced primetime encore presentation at 8 p.m. ET
1 posted on 02/06/2026 2:06:03 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

used to be called the olympic movement. not dissimilar to bowel.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 2:11:45 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Kid Shelleen
"NBC will air an enhanced primetime encore presentation at 8 p.m. ET"

Oh, no! There's a real exciting episode of "Gilligan's Island" being rerun at the same time on a Roku channel.

3 posted on 02/06/2026 2:14:11 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

I used to never miss the Olympics, I haven’t watched them for the last 10 years.


4 posted on 02/06/2026 2:15:08 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Any straight male figure skaters this time?


5 posted on 02/06/2026 2:15:51 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Without the Russians being to compete, all medals should come with an asterisk.


6 posted on 02/06/2026 2:17:28 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Kid Shelleen

NBC broadcast them live at 2PM- i’ve had the broadcast on in the background....very average thus far..

Ukraine got the largest ovation...the ovation for the USA was loud at first then seemed very tepid...

a lot of cute chicks marching in...


7 posted on 02/06/2026 2:18:03 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: Kid Shelleen
SPOILER ALERT:

No depictions of beheadings were present in the opening ceremonies.

Highlight the above with the cursor to reveal.

-PJ

8 posted on 02/06/2026 2:18:20 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Carl Vehse

There is also Banacek, McCloud, Ironside, and Rockford.


9 posted on 02/06/2026 2:24:34 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: God luvs America

the lighting of the torch is worse than average....Paris really killed the lighting of the torch...


10 posted on 02/06/2026 2:25:39 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America

Why does the Olympic torch look like a hookah pipe now?


11 posted on 02/06/2026 2:27:17 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: dfwgator

“Any straight male figure skaters this time?”

There’s a better chance you win the powerball. Lol!


12 posted on 02/06/2026 2:27:47 PM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: God luvs America

Alberto Tomba- i’ve got great pictures of him at the top of the mountain in Calgary in 1988....


13 posted on 02/06/2026 2:28:03 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: Kid Shelleen

(((YAWN))) I’ve got an AHL game to go to tonight.


14 posted on 02/06/2026 2:28:48 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Only a hand operated dildo would write a song that needed words that rhymed with Minneapolis.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I liked the Cold War undercurrent, and I liked Jim McKay.

I haven’t watched the Olympics in many years.


15 posted on 02/06/2026 2:30:50 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: V_TWIN

An SNL Classic

The U.S. Men’s Heterosexual Figure Skating Championship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZYTQToX9A


16 posted on 02/06/2026 2:31:37 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator; V_TWIN

American Nathan Chen, who won the gold in 2022, made the comment “I’m one of the few straight guys in a sport filled with gays” and holy hell was brought down on him- for telling the truth!!!


17 posted on 02/06/2026 2:31:58 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’ve seen bits & pieces....PC and boring


18 posted on 02/06/2026 2:32:50 PM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Carl Vehse
Is it the one where Gilligan does something stupid to foil their rescue?

That one always cracks me up!

For the record: Ginger

19 posted on 02/06/2026 2:32:50 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Kid Shelleen

But..... But........ The “experts” guaranteed that all of the snow and ice on the entire planet was going to melt away by........1995.........

by..uh....2005.......

by..uh....2015.............

by..uh....20..............................


20 posted on 02/06/2026 2:33:57 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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