Milano Cortina Winter Olympics Officially End

A total of 116 medal events were held in eight Olympic sports across 16 disciplines over the course of 17 days of competition.

Kirsty Coventry, president of the IOC, gives a speech during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony on day sixteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Verona Olympic Arena in Verona, Italy, on Feb. 22, 2026. Sarah Stier/Getty Images

VERONA, Italy—The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever.

In declaring the 2026 Games over, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry told local organizers that they “delivered a new kind of winter games and you set a new, very high standard for the future.”