Right before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, relay participants passed the torch for the final few times in central Milan. The flame began its journey across Italy in December, starting in Rome and travelling through all 110 Italian provinces. | Al Jazeera English

Yesterday in Turin, the Olympic Torch returned to familiar streets, carried by its designer Carlo Ratti as the relay continued on the path to the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. Designed to step back and let the flame take center stage, the torch embodies a radical idea of subtraction, where the object exists only to support what truly matters. “The most powerful symbols are strongest when they let something else shine.” Born from the vision of Versalis (Official Supporter of the Games), the