Winter Olympic Games
Gold for Erika Lechner — The Nurse is as Fast as Killy
Following the historic golds won by Italian athletes in the women’s doubles luge (with Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer) and the men’s doubles (with Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner), led by the national team’s technical director and living legend of…
Killy as a Great Champion
On the occasion of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, we relive the Grenoble 1968 edition by publishing in full some memorable articles by Gianni Clerici exactly as they appeared in the columns of Il Giorno. Today, February 10, we read…
Plattner has wisely blocked the “downhill” race.
While medals are raining down for the "Azzurri" athletes in Milano-Cortina—already reaching a tally of 9 after just one weekend of competition—let’s see how Riccardo Plattner handled a few too many snowflakes. Plattner, the chairman of the downhill skiers at…
Franco Nones – a triumphant start
On the occasion of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, we are revisiting the Grenoble 1968 edition by publishing, in their entirety, some of the memorable articles written by Gianni Clerici during the same days they originally appeared in the columns…