Winter Games Opening Ceremony LIVE: Olympic cauldrons lit after JD Vance and Israeli athletes booed in Milan

We’ll leave you with Flo Clifford’s report from inside San Siro:

And that’s the end of that!

Italian legendary skiers Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni light one cauldron in Milan, I believe, as Sofia Goggia lights the cauldron simultaneously in Cortina.

They will both stay lit until the end of the Games.

The Olympic torch is being passed between various people, some of whom are celebrated Italian athletes such as skiier Sofia Goggia. It’s all a bit slow but the flame is slowly making its way towards the cauldron…

The great Eliud Kipchoge is one of a number of athletes who brings the Olympic flag into the stadium.

Performers dance to a reading of a poem about peace and rejecting war, before Charlize Theron takes the stage to deliver “a message of peace by my beloved countryman Nelson Mandela”.

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.”

She adds a “resounding call for peace everywhere”.

Next up: Andrea Bocelli performing Nessun Dorma. Wonderful.

Kirsty Coventry, the IOC president, speaks now. “My fellow Olympians,” she says, playing on a key part of her election pledge, which was that she only recently was an athlete herself, rather than a career bureaucrat.

“Welcome to your Games. I know what it feels like, that mix of excitement and nerves, your whole life of hard work, early mronings, long days, sacrifices, setbacks, it all comes down to this. I know that feeling when you realise, this is it. You’ve made it. So first, be proud. And now, take it all in. Enjoy it. Enjoy every second.”

“I love my country, I love sport, and I love the Olympic movement,” says president of the organising committee, Giovanni Magalo.