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Fantastic feat by Davide Ghiotto who became world champion in the 10,000-meter speed ice skating event. This is a historic achievement for the Italian long blades because no Italian skater had managed to win a gold medal at the World Championships single distance. Ghiotto, in recent days rainbow silver medalist in the 5,000 and last year in Beijing...

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Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii made history after winning the first European Pair's title for Italy at the 2023 European Figure Skating Championships on Thursday. Teammates Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini rose three spots to take the silver, while Germany's Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel settled for bronze. Conti and Macii had a low catch on t...

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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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Closed the 24th edition of the Winter Olympic Games, now begins the countdown to the 25th edition to be held in Italy: Milan-Cortina. Italy finished in 13th place in the traditional medals table (where the gold medals "weigh" more), 9th in the "American" medals table, that is, the one that takes into account the total number of laurels won. We are...

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Speed skater Arianna Fontana became the most successful Italian woman in the history of the Winter Olympics when she won silver in the 1,500 metres short-track event at Beijing 2022. She now has 11 Olympic medals, one more than cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo. She took second, coming ahead of Dutchwoman Suzanne Schulting in a photo-finish in...

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Arianna Fontana triumphed in the women's 500 metre short track event on Monday to win Italy's first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics. It is Fontana's 10th Olympic medal, enabling her to match the record of cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo. She also won gold in the same event in Pyeongchang four years ago. Furthermore, it is her second...

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Italian skater Arianna Fontana became the all-time leader in Winter Olympic short track medals on Saturday after the mixed team relay. Italy, the No. 7 team in the 2021-2022 World Cup standings, took the silver in the inaugural Olympic event, and Fontana won her ninth medal. She entered the 2022 Winter Olympics tied with Apolo Ohno of the United St...

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Italy will be represented by 118 athletes at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. During the opening ceremony the Italian athletes wore tricolour capes designed by Giorgio Armani, who was also behind the tracksuits for Italy's Olympic and Paralympic last summer. Armani described the tricolour-inspired capes as a "a tribute to our flag and the high value...

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2021 was the golden year of Italian sport. Never in history had Italian athletes conquered so many successes in international competitions in a single year, both in team and individual sports. In 2022 this record will be almost impossible to repeat, but in a few days in China the Italian winter sports athletes will be able to return to make the Ita...

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Great victory in the Italian men's and women's short track three months before the Beijing Olympic Winter Games: in the first day of finals, the Italian team climbed twice on the highest step of the podium. Yuri Confortola, 35 years old skater from Tirano in Lombardy, won the 1500 meters in the second stage of the World Cup in progress in Nagoya, J...

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