MILANO (ITALPRESS) – It will be a pair symbol of Italy Team to lead the Tricolor in the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games of Milan Cortina 2026, scheduled Sunday evening at the Arena di Verona. The Olympic champions Lisa Vittozzi and Davide Ghiotto were chosen as a blue flag holder for the final act of this five-round exhibition, which drops the curtain on an entry into the history of Italian sport.
The Friulian biathlete, protagonist of an Olimpiade of the highest level crowned with the first individual Olympic gold in the history of the Italian biathlon (in pursuit) and the silver in the mixed bracket, has been confirmed, with talent and determination, among the great international interpreters of the discipline, symbol of resilience after the injury that made it blow the entire season 2024/2025.
Next to her will be Davide Ghiotto, the excellence of speed skating and the firm point of the tricolor trio that has conquered another historical gold in the pursuit of teams. The Vicentino, together with Andrea Giovannini and Michele Malfatti, was able to bring Italy back to the olympus of the specialty, 20 years after the last home enterprise in Turin 2006.
The choice of a mixed couple, of two Olympic champions, for the final parade again emphasizes the values of balance and representativeness that have characterized this delegation, able to collect up to now 26 podiums and to turn Milan Cortina 2026 in the most winning winter Olympic edition ever for the blue colors.
Under the millenary vaults of the Arena di Verona, the Closing Ceremony theatre (starting at 20 o’clock), the Tricolore will be entrusted to two athletes symbol of Milan Cortina 2026: an image destined to remain impressed, to seal weeks of emotions, records and medals that have projected Italy at the top of the world winter sports.
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