"From Milan to Cortina and beyond, the star of the first Olympic weekend in Italy was Italy. The electric celebrations started Saturday in Bormio, close to the Swiss border, with a silver and bronze in the men's downhill. They echoed a few hours later in Milan, where Francesca Lollobrigida set an Olympic record in women's 3000m speed skating for the host country's first gold."
"In Milan, figure skater Matteo Rizzo sank to his knees after finishing his free skate and sobbed tears of joy on the ice. He leaped over the wall to join his compatriots in celebrating their bronze, the country's first-ever medal in the team event. In two days, Italy already had more medals (nine) than they had garnered in Sochi 2014 (eight) and far more than in Vancouver 2010 (five)."
The opening Olympic weekend in Italy produced a cascade of medals across dispersed venues, beginning with silver and bronze in the men's downhill at Bormio and an Olympic-record 3,000m speedskating gold by Francesca Lollobrigida in Milan. Sunday brought medals in snowboard (Livigno), biathlon (Antholz) and luge (Cortina), highlighted by Matteo Rizzo's emotional reaction to Italy's first-ever figure skating team medal. Italy amassed nine medals in two days, surpassing recent Winter Games totals and approaching its record 20 medals from Lillehammer 1994. Subsequent days added mixed doubles curling bronze, mixed short-track relay gold, doubles luge golds and a women's super-G gold.
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