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Sports Illustrated
Andrew Gastelum

The 2026 Winter Olympics Will Give an Untraditionally Italian Region Its Moment

It’s mid-November in Sesto, a rustic town of nearly 2,000 people in Italy’s Dolomite mountains, and the cows are still out to pasture.

Within the week, the first big snowfall of the winter season will blanket the meadows, but for now, everything is rosy—literally, everything.

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