Closing ceremony lights up historic Arena di Verona to mark end of 17-day Olympic Games

Flag-bearers Valérie Maltais and Steven Dubois top team up Canada at closure ceremonial

Look back at every goal Canada's men's Olympic hockey team scored at Milano Cortina 2026

Look back at every goal Canada's women's Olympic hockey team scored at Milano Cortina 2026

Flag-bearers Valérie Maltais and Steven Dubois lead Team Canada at closing ceremony

Canadian Valérie Maltais receives her 1500-metre speed skating bronze medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Canada's Steven Dubois skates to short track 500m Olympic gold

Canada's Courtney Sarault wins her 4th Olympic medal with bronze in short track women's 3,000m relay

Mikaël Kingsbury soars to Canada’s 1st gold of 2026 Olympics

Valérie Maltais reflects on earning her 1st individual Olympic speed skating medal

After a video from the French Alps, it's on to the official speeches. First up is Giovanni Malagò, president of the organizing committee for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Milano Cortina 2026. Then, it's IOC president Coventry to close it out.

We're now seeing a segment from the next Winter Olympics host, which is meant to represent a new dawn against a reimagining of La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. Opera singer Marine Chagnon performs the new rendition by composer Thomas Roussel.

We're getting to the end now with some official protocol. As tradition, Italy will hand the Olympic flag over to the next host of the Winter Olympics: the French Alps.

The mayors of the two Italian host cities, Milan and Cortina, hand over the flag. The Italian Air Force’s honour guard raises the French flag.

The Greek flag is also raised with its national anthem, followed by the same for the Olympic flag and anthem.

Now there's a tribute to the planet, with references to water and sunlight. Italian dancer étoile Roberto Bolle is performing an aerial sequence, which organizers described as one of the most complicated scenes of the entire ceremony. It's also a first for Bolle.

We're on to the official moment of remembrance, a piece of Olympic protocol that started at the 2016 Summer Games. In another nod to opera, it plays against Humming Chorus from Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

DJ Gabry Ponte performs his earworm hit with Eiffel 65, Blue (Da Ba Dee), on this occasion to thank the volunteers at the Games. The volunteers hop on stage and get in formation to make the "26" logo, which is really giving flash mob.

Now it's on to the men, with Klaebo getting his gold medal (his sixth of these Olympics) for the men's 50-kilometre cross-country skiing mass start.

Norway swept the podium in this event, with Martin Loewstroem Nyenget winning silver and Emil Iversen taking home bronze.

The winners of the women's 50-kilometre cross-country skiing mass start are getting their medals now after finishing the event earlier today.

Sweden's Ebba Andersson won gold, Norway's Heidi Weng won silver and Switzerland's Nadja Kaelin won bronze.

This was the first time in Olympic history women were able to take part in the event.

This is an Olympic tradition. It's a victory ceremony for the medallists from the final event of the Games: the women’s and men’s cross-country skiing 50-kilometre classic mass start. It's an extreme test of endurance, to say the least.

That singer dressed like an ice sculpture is meant to be a "mysterious siren of the future" whose call invites athletes to give their all, according to the closing ceremony's official program.

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