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No matter the geopolitical madness, no matter state-sponsored drug cheats, no matter the eternal hypocrisy from the IOC to stay political neutral amid dealing with totalitarian regimes, here is the ultimate truism about the Olympics
Chris Jones reports from Milan.
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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 6 : Sofia Goggia, Italy's first women's downhill Olympic champion, lit the cauldron in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Friday at the culmination of the opening ceremony for the Milano Cortina Winter Games.
PREDAZZO, Italy, Feb 6 : Norwegian ski jumpers greeted with scepticism suggestions that anti-doping officials must now police their anatomy as well as their equipment, after regulators said they would stay alert to rumours of athletes artificially enlarging their genitals to exploit suit rules at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
MILAN — Featuring tributes to da Vinci and Dante, Puccini and Pausini, Armani and Fellini, pasta and vino, and other iconic tastes of Italian culture — plus Mariah Carey hitting all the high notes in «Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu,» aka «Volare» — an unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron opening ceremony got the Milan Cortina Olympics officially started Friday.
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LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 6 : The Olympic Big Air jump has become an unlikely protagonist in Livigno’s narrow valley, an imposing scaffolded structure rising above the town’s rooftops and drawing both praise and surprise from snowboarders and freeskiers.