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Martina Di Centa, farewell to Nordic skiing at just 25 years old

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Martina Di Centa announced at only 25 years old her farewell to Nordic skiing: “The choice to retire at the end of the season comes from afar and was communicated before the Olympics to my family, the sports center, the national team, my coaches and staff. My decision is this, to close at the end of this season”

Andrea GussoniAll the Azzurri medals at Milan Cortina 2026: photos

Francesca Lollobrigida won two golds in speed skating, in the women’s 3.000 and in the women’s 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 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.

“I’m happy that my Olympic run was a crescendo in terms of performance and to have finished with a great team performance, giving it my all and turning in today’s relay in third place. It couldn&#8221t end my journey any better than this, there are still some races I want to do and let”s see if things will go right and you still take part in some competitions”, concluded the cross-country skier at Rai microphones.

It was also the day of a historic medal for Italy, which returned to the Olympic podium in Nordic skiing by winning a splendid bronze medal in the men’s 4×7.5 km relay. The quartet composed of Elia Barp, Davide Graz, Martino Carollo and Federico Pellegrino finished third in a final dominated by Norway, gold ahead of France. Twenty years after Turin 2006, the Azzurri return to celebrate a medal in the discipline. The last fraction was decisive, where a moving Pellegrino completed the comeback over Niko Anttola, overtaking him in the final and giving Italy a podium that seemed to be fading.

The race of the Azzurri was a crescendo of emotions. Barp and Graz kept Italy in the wake of the positions that counted, while Carollo struggled uphill in the third fraction and lost valuable ground. The gap to Finland exceeded ten seconds and bronze appeared distant. But in the last segment Pellegrino sews up the disadvantage meter by meter, until he flanks Anttola and beats him in the sprint thanks to his experience and power.

For the gold and silver, however, there is never any real battle: Norway, dragged by the outclassman Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo (the all-time winningest at the Winter Games) dominates the event and finishes more than 22 seconds ahead of France. For Italy, it is a medal with historical and emotional value: it breaks a 20-year-long fast and brings to 19 the total number of medals won at the Games in Milan-Cortina.

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