MILAN: The opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, held on Friday night at Milan’s San Siro stadium, set a record with more than 61,000 tickets sold, the head of the local organizers said on Saturday.
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Another 10,000 spectators watched the ceremony in other locations in a Games where events are being staged across a large area of northern Italy.
Organizers said everything worked smoothly in the San Siro, Milan’s famous soccer stadium, adding it was too early to provide broadcasting figures.
“It was a major challenge and we were very, very proud of our achievement. I am very pleased that everything went very well from an organizational point of view, which was not easy in such a unique context,” Andrea Varnier, CEO of the Milano Cortina 2026 Foundation, said at a press conference.
