
Having started off-piste with protests over ICE agents and reports of penis injections, the Milan and Cortina Winter Olympics got back on track with a bulgingly ambitious opening ceremony either side of the Italian Alps.
Mariah Carey crooned ‘Volare’ and Andrea Bocelli belted out ‘Nessun Dorma’ in a marathon four-hour show at San Siro, in which the only note of friction was booing for the attending United States vice-president JD Vance.