CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy — As the terrible event transpired on the big screen in front of a packed grandstand, there was an instantaneous spasm of sound and dismay—gasps, screams, hands on heads, hands covering mouths. And then there was a shocked, mournful, devastatingly heavy silence.
Has an Olympic venue ever gone as quiet as this one, at the base of Olympia delle Tofane?
