Frank Del Duca is proud of his bolognese sauce. He's always tinkering with his meatball recipe, searching for the elusive perfect ratio of everything. His first job was making pizza, he raves about his lasagna, and he knows the best Italian dishes have just a few ingredients. The Milan Cortina Games are 4,000 miles from Del Duca's house in Maine. He feels right at home.
The pilot of the USA-1 bobsled — chosen by his peers to be one of the two U.S. flag bearers when these games opened — is, as one might have guessed, an Italian American, with three of his four grandparents hailing from the country where the Olympics are taking place. And Monday, he'll compete on the soil of their homeland, in the field with brakeman Josh Williamson for the start of the two-man competition in Cortina d'Ampezzo. “I like that the track is in Italy,” Del Duca said. “I really do, for many reasons.”
