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Matilde Lorenzi’s dad: "Fede had written to me"

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Federico Tomasoni moved the world by dedicating his silver medal at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics to Matilde Lorenzi. The 28-year-old from Bergamo competed in the men’s ski cross final in Livigno wearing a special helmet in tribute to his former girlfriend, who tragically passed away on Oct. 28, 2024 after a terrible accident while training on the Val Senales glacier in South Tyrol. Relations with the late girlfriend’s family remain very solid, as her father, Adolfo, has since confirmed.

Marco Enzo VenturiniAll the Azzurri’s medals at 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 relay of the short track (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 the luge.

Federica Brignone gave very strong emotions, winning two golds (Super-G and giant) ten months after her serious accident.
With the'gold won on Sunday, February 15, Lisa Vittozzi gave the first Olympic success to Italian biathlon.
Davide Ghiotto (pictured), along with Andrea Giovannini and Michele Malfatti, captured a splendid gold in the team pursuit, one of the top events in speed skating.
Spectacular, then, the double in ski cross: Simone Deromedis gold, Federico Tomasoni silver.
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 took silver in the 4×6 km mixed biathlon.
Arianna Fontana also won an individual silver in the 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.
Short track d'silver in the all-female relay team composed of Elisa Confortola, Arianna Fontana, Chiara Betti and Arianna Sighel.

Sofia Goggia won the bronze medal in the women’s downhill, capturing another Five Circles laurel.
Also Lucia Dalmasso celebrated a bronze, in snowboarding, finishing third in the women’s parallel giant slalom.
Riccardo Lorello instead allowed the Italian flag to hoist itself above the third step of the podium in the 5.000-meter speed skating.
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 themselves on the Olympic curling podium, winning bronze in 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.
Flora Tabanelli took bronze in the Big Air final with a total score of 178.25.
The 25th medal for Italy came in the men’s team sprint thanks to Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino.

Pietro Sighel, despite the'bitterness in the individual, brought home not only the'gold in the mixed relay but also the bronze in the men&#039s relay along with Thomas Nadalini, Luca Spechenhauser and Andrea Cassinelli.
The 30th overall medal came on the penultimate day, thanks to Andrea Giovannini’s bronze in the speed skating mass start.

“We still haven&#8220t stopped crying seeing Federico’s race, it&#8217s too big an emotion and it&#8217s also complicated to describe – admitted Matilde Lorenzi&#8217s father speaking to the ‘Corriere della Sera’ -It&#8217s like he was part of our family. He, but also his parents, are wonderful people. She was the first girlfriend he introduced to the house. We write each other regularly”. And the same happened just on the occasion of the finals of the men’s ski cross in Milan Cortina 2026.

“He wrote me: ‘Tomorrow I will ski for Matilde’. And he did an incredible feat, he wanted that medal at all costs” added Adolfo Lorenzi. Who also spoke about the sun on Federico Tomasoni&#8217s helmet, a dedication to his lost love: “They skied in two. Hundreds of people wrote to us, and it is very important to us. He had shown us a preview of that helmet. Federico is a golden boy. Like Simone Deromedis he knows the value of sacrifice and discipline. We felt that our Mati was special, so he could do nothing but find a special boy”.

The same Federico Tomasoni had provided some hot details about his initiative. “My first vacation with Matilde had been right here in Livigno – had recalled the’Azzurro, speaking to the microphones of ‘Olympics’, at the end of the race in which he won his first Olympic medal -. Today I was competing with bib number 17, which was his number. It was very exciting”.

Also Lucrezia, sister of Matilde Lorenzi, had not wanted to hold back her excitement after the medal won by Federico Tomasoni. “This piece of the medal is thanks to her and all the energy and strength she sent to Faith today. She was the one who gave that extra finger to allow him to take the silver. It makes me feel serene because I know that in this medal there&#8217s also a little piece of her” she had told TG3.

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