00:00The Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic flame has begun its journey, setting off from Rome on Saturday on a relay across Italy.
00:14The trek covers 12,000 kilometres, winding its way through all 110 Italian provinces, before reaching Milan's San Siro Stadium for the opening ceremony on the 6th of February.
00:27Olympic swimming champion Gregorio Baldinieri handed off to retired fencer Elisa Di Francisca, a two-time gold medalist at the 2012 London Games.
00:40She then passed it on to Gianmarco Tamberi, the 2020 Olympic high jump champion.
00:48The torch relay, which includes 60 city celebrations, will be in Naples for Christmas and Bari for New Year's Eve.
00:55In all, there will be over 10,000 torchbearers.
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