Australian flag bearers Jakara Anthony and Matt Graham have led a small but enthusiastic team in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, with the parade of athletes split over four locations.
In an Olympic first, the main ceremony was held at the San Siro Stadium in Milan while athletes marched at different clusters across Italy. With competition venues dotting an area of about 22,000km it will be the most spread-out Games in Winter Olympics history.
The largest Australian contingent was in Livigno, some 250km from Milan in the Italian alps, where Olympic moguls medallists Anthony and Graham led a 23-strong team that includes other freestyle skiers, as well as the team's snowboarders.
