Olympic swimming champion Gregorio Paltrinieri started off the torch relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Saturday marking exactly two months before the Feb. 6 opening ceremony.

A preliminary cauldron has been lit by the Olympic flame at Italy’s presidential palace as the countdown to the Milan Cortina Winter Games approaches the two-months-to-go mark.

The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway.

Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh has won another gold medal and Italy pipped the United States to the men’s 4x100 medley relay title on the last night of racing at the world swimming championships in Budapest.

Belgium defeated Australia in a shootout to win gold in men’s field hockey.

Caeleb Dressel lived up to the hype in an Olympics where many of the U.S. favorites have faltered.

The Hungarians like medleys.