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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Mark Staniforth

BIZARRE: Andrea bocelli and mariah carey steal show as winter olympics opens in style - You Need To See This

The Winter Olympics was declared open in Milan and Cortina (Carl Sandin/POOL) - (PA Wire)

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.

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