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Italian ski racer Federica Brignone wrapped up the season-long giant slalom title on Tuesday at the World Cup finals in a race won by Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland in Sun Valley, Idaho. Brignone needed to finish just 13th or better in the final run to clinch the discipline crown and wound up second. She finished 0.14 seconds behind Gut-Behrami's...

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Italy's Federica Brignone was crowned this season's women's World Cup overall champion on Saturday after the cancellation of the downhill races in Sun Valley, Idaho, due to strong winds. Brignone secured her second overall crown at the age of 34 and became the oldest skier - male or female - to claim an overall World Cup title in alpine skiing. She...

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Italy's Federica Brignone put in a dominant display to win gold in the women's giant slalom at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Thursday. Brignone, second in the super-G a week ago, led after the first run, and again put in the fastest time on her second to win by 0.90 of a second over New Zealand's Alice Robinson, who took silver...

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Smiles abound, and as energetic and enthusiastic as ever, Federica Brignone happily bounced around the Saalbach finish area, chatting with all interested parties about her latest World Cup victory and highly impressive season. Brignone claimed victory in the 11th and final GS of the waning World Cup season by 1.36 seconds last Sunday, March 18, ami...

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Sometimes in sports there are natural talents, those who become so after years of training, and the predestined. On July 14, 1990, a predestined was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Federica Brignone, who scored a unique victory in the history of Italian alpine skiing this February. Federica, was born practically with skis on her feet because her da...

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Italy's Federica Brignone won the combined event at the skiing world championships at Meribel Monday. It is Italy's first gold at the championships at the French resort, and Brigone's first world championship gold. The 32-year-old from Milan took the gold ahead of Swiss Wendy Haldener, silver, and Austria's Ricarda Haaser, bronze. US superstar Mika...

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Italy's Federica Brignone on Thursday won the Super-G world cup after coming 19th in the last race of the season in the speciality at Courchevel in France. She was assured of overall victory before the start. Brigone also came third in the overall World Cup standings for all disciplines behind Mikaela Shiffrin of the USA and Petra Vlhova of Slovaki...

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Closed the 24th edition of the Winter Olympic Games, now begins the countdown to the 25th edition to be held in Italy: Milan-Cortina. Italy finished in 13th place in the traditional medals table (where the gold medals "weigh" more), 9th in the "American" medals table, that is, the one that takes into account the total number of laurels won. We are...

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Federica Brignone won the Super-G in Garmisch, sealing the 19th personal victory of her career in the World Cup, which for the Italian women represents the 111th victory in history, as well as the 10th of the season, six of which came in this specialty. The Italian racer has won three times in the Super-G this season and today she has strengthened...

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2021 was the golden year of Italian sport. Never in history had Italian athletes conquered so many successes in international competitions in a single year, both in team and individual sports. In 2022 this record will be almost impossible to repeat, but in a few days in China the Italian winter sports athletes will be able to return to make the Ita...

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