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Olympics, crazy day for Italy: Lorello wins bronze!

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Another medal for Italy on this historic Sunday for the Italian colors: Riccardo Lorello won the bronze medal in the men&#8217s 5,000-meter speed skating: the 23-year-old skater from Rho finished third behind Norway&#8217s Eitrem (gold in 6’03″95, an Olympic record) and the Czech Jilek, silver. Fourth place for the’other Azzurro Davide Ghiotto, 12th Michele Malfatti.

Luca FranzosiLindsey Vonn, tremendous fall and end of Olympic dream in Cortina: photos

Lindsey Vonn falls after very few seconds in the downhill on the Tofane'Olympia at Milan-Cortina 2026.
Thus ends the attempt to rewrite history by the champion. Astonished audience.
The race is immediately stopped after the fall of the American champion.
She closes in tears the dream of winning an Olympic medal at 41 years old.

Vonn aimed to overtake compatriot Breezy Johnson, in the lead up to that point.
Started with bib 13, she chooses a very high line at the'entrance of the first crossbar.
He hits a goal with his right shoulder, loses his balance and falls ruinously.

The'impact takes place on the'Olympia delle Tofane, a track where he had already triumphed twelve times in his career.
The screams of pain of the champion break the silence of Cortina.

In previous days she had revealed the complete rupture of the cruciate ligament in Crans Montana.
The'injury had occurred in the'last World Cup race before the Olympics.
The first responders arrive immediately on the track after the fall.
Vonn is immobilized and loaded onto the toboggan by rescuers.
The'helicopter transports away the American champion from the Tofane.

For Italy, it is the fourth medal this Sunday (after the silver medal of the biathlon mixed relay and the two bronzes of Goggia in the downhill and Dalmasso in snowboarding), the seventh total in the medal table.

Lorello, who was not among the eve’s favorites, stopped the clock at 6’09″22. Raised in Rho, he also dreamed of a gold medal in front of his own audience for a few minutes before Eitrem’s Olympic record. L’Azzurro is making his Olympic debut, and only a month ago he won silver at the European speed skating championships.

A little bitterness for Davide Ghiotto, who finished fourth by only 35 thousandths of a second: no encore for him, who had placed third in Beijing in 2022.

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