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 ...

The International Olympic Committee designated Lake Placid as the backup sliding site if the Cortina track was not certified ...

ROME (AP) — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari ... despite calls from the International Olympic Committee to hold bobsled, luge and skeleton athletes at a venue in nearby Austria ...

Testing Begins at Cortina's Controversial Olympic Sliding Track for Bobsled, Luge and Skeleton ROME (AP) — When Italian skeleton competitor Mattia Gaspari became the first athlete to test the ...