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Peter Sighel responds to the keyboard lions

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Not everyone liked the way Pietro Sighel crossed the finish line: when he realized that the gold was now on his and his teammates’ necks, he turned toward his opponents and crossed the line from behind. As always, the keyboard lions went wild, calling him unsportsmanlike and a blowhard. Titles that the champion sent back to sender.

Luca GiorgettiSilver ecstasy for Dorothea Wierer. Photos of the biathlon goddess

Dorothea Wierer wins her third Olympic medal in the mixed relay after bronzes in Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018.
"Let’s say it was not so easy today to manage emotions. I was very nervous, I was trembling, my legs were heavy".
Lukas gives her the change in a very good position in the mixed relay that opens the blue Olympic program.
"It’s beautiful to open like this, it’s a nice gift also for all those who work behind the scenes".
France wins the race ahead of'Italy: "It is an outstanding team and deserved success".
Wierer has been the staple of the blue biathlon for years, she began practicing the discipline in 2000.

Incentivized by her brothers, she experiences a'formidable escalation that takes her to the roof of the world.
First ever Italian woman on the Olympic individual podium thanks to bronze in the Beijing 2022 sprint.
In his palmares stand out 12 world medals including three individual golds and one team gold.

In 2019 she became the first tricolor biathlete to win the overall World Cup.

Bis the'following year for a total of six Crystal Spheres counting specialties.
Conquers Specialty Cups: individual in 2016 and 2021, pursuit 2019 and mass start 2020.
Out of the range he loves reading, relaxes with yoga and long bike rides.
She is romantically linked to'former cross-country racer Stefano Corradini, whom she married in 2015.

“I wanted to try to close in an epic way for the home crowd. We had the hole to do it, I tried to control and then turn around to gas the crowd a little bit’ the crowd. I didn&#8217t want to disrespect the opponents, at all: it was more to leave a mark for the home crowd and gas them because it helped us a lot,” the Trento man cut to the Eurosport microphones.

The Azzurri short-track skiers boasted the title of Olympic champions, the best of all on the ice. A niche sport that, for a moment, took center stage, as only happens at the Games. “We ran a perfect race. We did nothing wrong. On a personal level, I closed a circle and won the medal I was missing. I did it together with an incredible team that rolled out an ‘red carpet’ the last two laps” he added.

Arianna Fontana continues to rewrite Italian sports history. In Milan Cortina 2026, the short track champion won the 12th Olympic medal of her career, contributing to Italy&#8217s gold medal in the mixed short track relay: a result that confirms her as the most decorated Italian athlete ever at the Winter Games and the most successful short tracker in history at the age of 35, exactly 20 years after her first podium at Five Circles won at another home event, the 2006 event in Turin.

Arianna Fontana continued to rewrite Italian sports history.

Fontana once again demonstrated uncommon longevity and competitiveness, celebrating a milestone that brings her even closer to Edoardo Mangiarotti&#8217s all-time record (13 Olympic medals in fencing between 1936 and 1960). In the six consecutive editions of the Games (Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014, Pyeongchang 2018, Beijing 2022 and Milan Cortina 2026), the Italian skater has always medaled: before her, only Armin Zöggeler, a world luge legend, had succeeded, standing on the podium from Lillehammer 1994 to Sochi 2014.

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