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The Olympic dream fades for Rebecca Passler. The South Tyrolean biathlete, who was initially excluded for letrozole positivity and reinstated after NADO Italy’s Court of Appeals certified that her intake of the substance was totally accidental, will not participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, having been excluded from the women&#8217s biathlon relay.

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"Let’s say it was not so easy today to manage emotions. I was very nervous, I was trembling, my legs were heavy".
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Wierer has been the staple of the blue biathlon for years, she began practicing the discipline in 2000.

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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 runner Stefano Corradini, whom she married in 2015.

The Italian Winter Sports Federation, in fact, announced the quartet that will start the women×6 relay, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 2:45 p.m. at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena: Hannah Auchentaller, Dorothea Wierer, Michela Carrara and Lisa Vittozzi. FISI decided not to summon Passler, who had resumed training in recent days.

“These have been very difficult days – Rebecca Passler had said after the readmission to the official channels of the Federation -I have always believed in my good faith. I thank everyone who helped me, from the lawyers who followed my situation, to the Italian Winter Sports Federation, to my family and friends. Now I can finally go back to focusing one hundred percent on biathlon”.

Rebecca Passler is a granddaughter: her uncle Johann Passler won two Olympic bronze medals and four World Championship medals, including two gold medals in the relay. She took up biathlon around the age of eight, spurred on by the example of her older sister Greta and a deeply rooted tradition among young people in the Antholz Valley.

In her youth career she collects outstanding results, with five podiums at the World Junior Championships. Prominent among them is the gold in the women’s 4×6 km relay achieved in Soldier Hollow in 2022. She makes her World Cup debut at the end of November 2021, in the Swedish leg in Östersund.

The best individual finish comes in December 2025, when she finishes 11th in the Annecy-Le Grand Bornand mass start, touching the top ten. A result she manages to replicate a few weeks later, in early 2026, with 11th place in the sprint in Oberhof, Thuringia.

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