Start waving your flags for the 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony on February 6!

Here is the order in which countries will march out for the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

Greece, as always, will be the first country introduced in the Parade of Nations for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.

At the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies on Friday, athletes will march in the traditional Parade of Nations at the San Siro stadium in Milan. But they will also be parading else

During the 2026 Parade of Nations in the Milan Cortina Olympics Opening Ceremony, you won’t hear “United States” be called out in English to announce Team USA — instead, viewers will need to listen for their country to be announced in Italian.

There are not many better events in sporting than the Parade of Nations. At the beginning of every Olympics, the Opening Ceremony sees all participating countries have grand introductions in front of live audiences and millions of spectators across the globe.

In the last Olympics, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, the U.S. went second-to-last as athletes paraded down the Seine River. The logic there was similar: Los Angeles is hosting the next summer Olympics in 2028.

Team USA entered the opening ceremony at San Siro Stadium on a chilly night in Milan. But unlike the weather, the Americans received a warm welcome.

The parade of delegations is one of the most cherished traditions of the Games.

A moment of festive celebration at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony turned into a callout when U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, got booed by a portion of the crowd. JD Vance got