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Grand'Italy also in luge: Fischnaller repeats bronze in Beijing

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And that makes five: five medals in one day for the Azzurri at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympics. After silver in the biathlon mixed relay and three bronze medals from Goggia in downhill, Dalmasso in snowboarding and Lorello in speed skating, the fifth medal came Sunday in luge. Signing it is Dominik Fischnaller, who hit the bronze by finishing behind Germany&#8217s Max Langenhan (gold) and Austria’s Jonas Mueller (silver).

Luca FranzosiLindsey 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.

This is the eighth medal for the Azzurri in just two Olympic days: and never before has it happened for Italy to win five in a single day at the Winter Olympic Games. Fischnaller repeated the Olympic bronze medal four years ago in Beijing: the South Tyrolean finished 0″934 behind Langenhan, gold in 3’31″191.

Behind him was Latvia&#8217s Aparjods, fourth, followed by the other Austrian Gleirscher, with the veteran Loch sixth just ahead of Azzurro Leon Felderer, who rounded out the four Ampezzo runs in seventh place at 1″926 from Langenhan. Seventeenth place the’other Italian Alex Gufler, at 4″016.

The 32-year-old luge skier from Brixen has also won two gold medals at the European Championships and three bronze medals at the World Championships in his career.

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