New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The moment that defined eleven days of racing on the Dolomites came on February 15, when Federica Brignone crossed the finish line of the giant slalom at Olimpia delle Tofane and looked at the scoreboard the way someone looks at something they have wanted for a very long time. She had already won the super-G on the same mountain four days earlier. Now she had the GS. Two gold medals, home crowd, home snow, and the face of someone who had not quite allowed herself to believe it until the number appeared.

the Stelvio course in Bormio for the men, and Olimpia delle Tofane in Cortina d'Ampezzo for the women. Ten events in all, five per gender, one fewer than in 2022 after the mixed parallel team event was removed from t...