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12/22 07:20 CST Italy's 4 flag bearers for Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
honored in handover ceremony
Italy's 4 flag bearers for Milan Cortina Winter Olympics honored in handover
ceremony
ROME (AP) --- Italy's four flag bearers for its upcoming home Milan Cortina
Winter Olympics were honored in a handover ceremony at the presidential palace
on Monday.
Short track speedskater Arianna Fontana, cross country skier Federico
Pellegrino, Alpine skier Federica Brignone and curler Amos Mosaner were handed
flags by Italy President Sergio Mattarella.
Skiers Chiara Mazzel and Ren De Silvestro, who will be flag bearers at the
Paralympics, were also honored.
Fontana and Pellegrino will carry the flag at the main opening ceremony at
Milan's San Siro soccer stadium on Feb. 6, while Brignone and Mosaner will have
the honors at a simultaneous ceremony in Cortina d'Ampezzo on the same night.
Fontana has won an Italian women's record 11 Olympic medals across five
different Winter Games stretching back to Turin in 2006. She also carried her
country's flag at the opening ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.
"Even if this will be my sixth Olympics, and my second time as flag bearer,
it's still emotional," Fontana said.
Pellegrino has won two silver medals at the Olympics.
Brignone is the defending overall World Cup champion and has a silver and two
bronzes from the Olympics. She's attempting to return from a major injury in
time for the Games.
Mosaner teamed with Stefania Constantini to win gold in the mixed doubles at
the 2022 Beijing Games.
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