Gianluca Lorenzi has received death threats and grappled with economic controversies in the midst of Olympic planning.

Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic organizers are pursuing a plan to reconstruct a Cortina sliding track for bobsled, luge and skeleton rather than use an existing venue abroad. The IOC asked ...

ROME (AP) — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the controversial sliding track for next year’s Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, he did so in a sort of ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — There won’t be any spectators for the opening test races at the controversial sliding venue for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. That’s because while the track itself ...

ROME — The track's essential structure is done. The ice is being prepared. And next week, 60 athletes are slated to test the controversial sliding center for next year’s Milan-Cortina Olympics. “The ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy(AP) — The first official test race on the controversial sliding track being rebuilt for the Milan Cortina Olympics was won by skeleton world champion Matt Weston of Britain on ...

WHISTLER, British Columbia — The signature curve, appropriately, the unlucky 13th, is nicknamed “50-50” — the odds of escaping its icy clutches without accident. Curve No. 11 is known as “Shiver,” a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — When Italian skeleton competitor ...