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Tomba drops the bombshell: "Thoeni better than Goggia"

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Directly from Cortina, Alberto Tomba, the last torchbearer to light the Olympic brazier along with Deborah Compagnoni at the Arch of Peace in Milan, spoke to Repubblica microphones about Italy&#8217s great start (already nine medals) at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina. “Yes, great start, we turned on the’Olympics. With Deborah, we were really moved”.

Luca GiorgettiCurling, the Swiss champion – who is paired with her husband – does the damage but is saved

Mixed curling debuts at the Milan Cortina Games with an unexpected double at the Cortina Ice Palace.
The Switzerland of Yannick and Briar Schwaller-Hürlimann, a couple on the ice and in life, faces Estonia.
Estonian opponents are Marie Kaldvee and Harri Lill, ready to give battle to the redoubts.

Solved the technical problem of the blackout, Switzerland begins to take control of the challenge.
The Swiss lead 3-1 in the third end against Estonia.
At the end of the seventh end Switzerland stretches to 7-3, it seemed all under control.
There comes the second blackout, this time sporting, in the'eighth decisive end.

A surprising mistake by Briar at the penultimate stone opens the way for the Estonian opponents.
Estonia places four points in the'eighth end, puts everything back on the table.
Switzerland regains lucidity in the'extra end and closes the game on 9-7.

Winning debut but with shudder for Swiss Red Cross in Milan Cortina.
First Olympic mixed curling day already full of twists and turns in Cortina.

“And how nice also to see Gustavo Thoeni handing the torch to Sofia Goggia in Cortina. Of course, it would have been better if she had lit the brazier Gustavo, active athletes better not” added the Italian alpine skiing legend who was personally coached for nine years, from 1989 to 1996, by Thoeni himself.

Sofia Goggia won the bronze medal in the downhill on the Tofane Olympia of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. For the Bergamo-born champion, who came in at the finish line behind Breezy Johnson and Emma Aicher, it was her third consecutive Olympic medal in the downhill after gold in PyeongChang in 2018 and silver in Beijing in 2022.

Right after finishing third and winning the bronze medal, the Italian champion said she was a bit’sorry for the result. With a cool mind, complete with a social post, came other, decidedly more positive statements. A kind of thanksgiving towards Cortina, his magical place that, after all, has given him so much satisfaction, including this historic bronze that makes it even more legendary.

“Despite a performance with so many smudges – but always putting my whole heart into it – you gave me a beautiful bronze medal, the third consecutive downhill medal in three consecutive Olympic editions and this constitutes an invaluable value – wrote the Bergamasque -. It was not obvious because of the way things had turned out and yet you wanted to reward me anyway … I am grateful. February 8 is a special day, February 8, 2026 is a day I will never forget, and I firmly believe that in this medal there was also the caress of one of our comrades who passed away three years ago , a comrade who, however, continues to live on in our hearts”.

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