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Pietro Sighel disqualified but won’t stand for it: "No contact"

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Pietro Sighel isn&#8217t happy after being disqualified in the quarterfinals in the 1,000-meter short track. L’Azzurro, a big favorite on the eve of the race, was disqualified for a contact with Michał Niewinski of Poland. “As he told me at the end of the race there was no contact, simply our blades touched – he told Eurosport microphones -. Then when you touch with the blades you go down because you really lose contact with the ground so there could have been his advancement because with blade contact there&#8217s no penalty”.

Luca GiorgettiLindsey 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 of the 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.

“From the video it looks like he pulls a culata but in reality it is not so, unfortunately the Var is this: you just accept it – added the 26-year-old from Trentino -. Clearly I came here to do well, I started well, I was very relaxed even if it is always a little bit’ chaotic the start especially if you start from the fourth position but at the end I had taken the lead. I didn&#8217t feel like I made any big mistakes however that&#8217s it and we”ll focus on other distances.

“Clearly there&#8217s regret: I didn&#8217t come here for sure to go out in the quarterfinals with yet another disqualification at the Olympics which is very questionable however things can&#8217t be changed so we have to look ahead: I still have two distances, the men&#8217s relay. If I think about it too much it is not good, so it is gone now, peace” concluded Sighel.

The way in which Pietro Sighel crossed the finish line in the victory with the mixed relay in short track caused some discussion: when he realized that the gold was now on his neck and that of his teammates, he turned to 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.

“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 audience. 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 they helped us a lot,” the Trentino rider cut to the Eurosport microphones.

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