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Lara Della Mea beyond regret: the'Azzurra doesn't hide

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Five hundredths, a blink of an eye: that is the distance between Lara Della Mea and the Olympic podium, narrowly missed in the Milan Cortina 2026 giant slalom after a splendid second run, in which she recovered as many as nine positions but did not prevent Sara Hector, Thea Louise Stjernesund and Federica Brignone from overtaking her right in the final of the second run. No small regret, mitigated, however, at the end of the race by Brignone’s embrace, a splendid winner of another legendary Olympic gold medal.

“This dream eluded by just five hundredths, but it was a huge thrill to be here and to be able to play it all the way to the end for the podium – commented the Italian skier, who will also be engaged in the special slalom scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 18, with renewed ambitions -. I missed the first run, unfortunately, but I am very happy with how the second went. However, I congratulate Federica: she was very good, wonderful and incredible”.

Francesco LuciveroAll the Azzurri medals in Milan Cortina 2026: photos

Francesca Lollobrigida won two golds in speed skating, in the women’s 3,000 and 5,000 meters.
Splendid gold also for the mixed short track relay team (Confortola, Betti, Fontana, Nadalini, Sighel and Spechenhauser).
Marion Oberhofer and Andrea Vötter came out on top in the women’s luge.
Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner, on the other hand, won the men’s event, again in luge.
Federica Brignone gave very strong emotions, winning two golds (Super-G and giant) ten months after the serious accident.
With the'gold won on Sunday, February 15, Lisa Vittozzi gave the first Olympic success to the Italian biathlon.
Double podium position for the Azzurri in the men’s downhill: Giovanni Franzoni silver, Dominik Paris bronze.
Dorothea Wierer, Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer and Lisa Vittozzi won the'silver in the 4×6 km mixed biathlon.
Arianna Fontana also won an individual silver in short track, in the 500 meters, equaling fencer Mangiarotti’s 13 Olympic medals.
Michela Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva were awarded the silver medal for second place in the team snowboard cross.
Sofia Goggia won a bronze medal in the women’s downhill, capturing another Five Circles laurel.
Even Lucia Dalmasso celebrated a bronze, in snowboarding, finishing third in the women’s parallel giant.
In a'crazy edition for the Italian luge, Dominik Fischnaller’s bronze in the men’s individual race is also recorded.
Bronze also for the Italian figure skating team (Rizzo, Grassl, Gutmann, Conti, Macii, Guignard and Fabbri).
Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner confirmed on the Olympic curling podium, winning bronze in the mixed doubles.
Yet another Italian luge medal is the bronze in the mixed relay (Hofer, Vötter, Oberhofer, Fischnaller, Rieder and Kainzwaldner).
Michela Moioli also found a medal in the individual: excellent bronze for her, recovering from a bad fall in training.
Davide Graz, Elia Barp, Martino Carollo and flag bearer Federico Pellegrino cheered for the splendid bronze in the men’s cross-country relay.

Already starring in the World Cup with outstanding results (six times in the Top 10, best result the sixth place in the special slalom in Kranjska Gora), Lara Della Mea strongly believes she can redeem the bitterness of the fourth place in the last race of the Olympic program in the alpineos ci. “It has been a whole season that I show that I am a different athlete’she said -. I found within me an extraordinary strength and I put it on the track, even today. And it is not over: now the slalom will come. I will try again, with the same determination”.

Lara Della Mea achieved an overall time 67 hundredths slower than Federica Brignone, winner of the Olympic giant slalom, while Hector and Stjernesund, silver medalists ex-aequo, edged her by 5 hundredths. Della Mea was the second best Italian skier and placed ahead of Sofia Goggia, 10th overall, and Asja Zenere, 14th.

The alpine skiing program at the XXV Olympic Winter Games will conclude between Monday 16 and Wednesday 18 with the men’s and women’s special slalom, respectively. Italy has so far won five medals in alpine skiing: Federica Brignone&#8217s two gold medals (Super-G and giant slalom), Giovanni Franzoni&#8217s silver in the men&#8217s free, Dominik Paris&#8217s bronze in the same race and Sofia Goggia&#8217s bronze in the women&#8217s free.

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