VERONA, Italy (AP) — A city forever associated with Romeo and Juliet, Verona will host the final act of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday inside the ancient Roman Arena, where some 1,500 athletes will celebrate their feats against a backdrop of Italian music and dance.

A day after the U.S. women's hockey team bested Canada to take the gold, the U.S. men will find out whether they, too, will face Canada in the gold medal match. Canada faces Finland in the semifinal game, and the U.S. plays Slovakia.

Marco Balich has helped design grand spectacles at more than half a dozen Olympics. On Friday, he’ll do it again, on home turf in Italy.

A Russian woman in Milan made a quiet protest against the war by leading Ukraine’s Olympic team into the stadium

Paolo Petrecca, head of the sports unit of Italian state broadcaster RAI, stepped down on Thursday following backlash triggered by a series of live blunders he made while commenting the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony during which he misidentified Italian actress Matilda De Angelis as Mariah Carey.

Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later.

Paige Hyland turned the Olympics opening ceremony into a full fashion moment on Instagram on Tuesday, February 10, sharing photos from the event as she watched the Games kick off live in person. The