The whole of Italy and the world admired the actress Gina, her granddaughter Francesca Lollobrigida is on her way to surpassing the fame of her grandmother - the brilliant 35-year-old Italian woman hung the second most brilliant medal around her neck at the 25th Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina. Supermom Francesca, after winning gold in the 3.000-meter speed skating, also earned the most brilliant medal at the 5.000-meter distance.
The Roman woman was only a tenth faster than the Dutchwoman Merel Konijn in her national sport, with Norwegian Ragne Viklun taking bronze, 17 hundredths behind.
There was no shortage of excitement on the slopes of the 25th Winter Olympic Games - just three hundredths of a second ahead of Austrian Alessandro Hemmerle won gold in snowboard cross. Canadian Eliot Gronden, who won silver, was just that late, while bronze also went to Austria as Jacob Dusek was only 12 hundredths behind his compatriot Hemmerle.
And Sweden's Frida Karlsson dominates cross-country skiing, and in Italy yesterday she won her second gold. Dominant, because in the 10 km she was 46,6 seconds faster than her compatriot Eba Anderson, who again had to settle for silver. Bronze went to American Jessie Diggins, 49,7 seconds behind the fantastic Karlsson.
Australian Cooper Woods was unbeatable in freestyle skiing, Canadian Mikael Kingsbury won silver and Japanese Ikuma Horishima won bronze.
In luge, the hosts are still great under the supervision of German experts, but they only managed to win bronze as a team. Silver went to Austria, and gold to Germany - Julija Taubic earned her second gold in Milan (after an individual performance), and the best pair in luge - Tobias Wendl and Tobias Ertl, after winning bronze in the duo, still won gold as a team. They have dominated since Sochi 2014.
Arijana Fontana won silver in the 500-meter short track speed skating event in her last competition. She was defeated by world record holder Sandra Felsebor, who brought the Netherlands the only gold it was missing in speed skating.
However, the hero is the Italian Fontana, who has been competing since Turin in 2006 and has three gold medals and five silver and bronze medals in her treasury. Only Marit Bjergen has more medals than her with 15.
Fontana also won gold in the combined relay in Milan.
In the men's 1.000-meter short track, Dutchman Jens van Fut won in an exciting photo finish, ahead of China's Sun and bronze medalist Rim from South Korea.
In snowboarding - halfpipe, Choi Gaon from South Korea won, and the podium was filled by Americans - Chloe Kim won silver and Mitsuki Ono won bronze.
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