{"id":608985,"date":"2026-02-22T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/608985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:52:15","slug":"winter-olympics-closing-ceremony-live-updates-final-medal-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/608985\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics closing ceremony: live updates, final medal count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a> ended Sunday with <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/milan-cortina-winter-olympics-hockey-closing-ceremony-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a closing ceremony<\/a> paying tribute to Italian dance and music 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 in Olympic history.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Sunday, the United States beat Canada 2-1 in overtime to win the men\u2019s hockey gold on the final day of the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a>. Jack Hughes scored the winning goal just 1:41 into overtime.<\/p>\n<p><b>What to know:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-3e30fc32-0f3f-11f1-9e37-69a7c1e97ce6\">\n<li><b>Some 1,500 Olympians filed into the arena waving small national flags<\/b> to a rousing medley of Italian pop hits from the 20th century as the crowd sang along, taking their seats in the stone arena in places marked by green, red and white lights for the Italian flag.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>One of the key moments of the ceremony is <b>when the Olympic flag is handed over to the next Winter Games host nation, France,<\/b> and its flag is raised next to Italy\u2019s and Greece\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u25b6 See the final medal count<\/b> for the games <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/winter-olympics-medal-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday with a closing ceremony paying tribute to Italian dance and music inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":608986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[224667,191963,253335,62,67,132,68,75618,261636,261637],"class_list":["post-608985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-olympic-hockey","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-medal-count","tag-winter-olympics-schedule"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116116504373386479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}