Organizers unveil sleek metallic torches for Milan-Cortina Olympics and Paralympics

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 8:26 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Organizers for the Milan-Cortina Olympics connected Monday unveiled a sleek and minimalistic metallic plan for the torches that volition beryllium utilized successful the accepted relay up of adjacent year's Winter Games.

The torches volition beryllium made chiefly retired of recycled materials, with a plan strategy that lets the substance canister beryllium refilled up to 10 times — reducing the fig of torches that volition beryllium needed, organizers said. Made from an aluminum and brass alloy, the Olympic torch features a blue-green hue portion the Paralympic mentation is bronze colored.

"The plan of the torch is intended to heighten the occurrence itself, the existent essence of the torch relay," organizers said. "The thought is to nonstop absorption towards the flame, leaving the torch astir successful the background. By concentrating connected the simplicity of the design, the occurrence becomes the main protagonist."

The Olympic occurrence volition get successful Rome connected Dec. 4 and volition statesman its travel crossed Italy 2 days later.

The 2026 Games tally Feb. 6-22 and the Paralympics tally March 6-15.

The torches, which were designed by Italian designer Carlo Ratti, were displayed astatine associated presentations astatine the Expo 2025 successful Osaka, Japan, and successful Milan.