Federica Brignone
FILE- A view of the Arena in Verona, Italy, Friday, June 25, 2021. After three consecutive Winter Games in Asia, plus the 2010 edition in Vancouver, the 2026 Olympics will mark a return to Europe and the Alps. The 2026 Games will be the most widespread Olympics ever, with venues spread out over 22,000 square kilometers (nearly 10,000 square miles) over a vast swath of northern Italy — from the regions of Lombardy and Veneto to the provinces of Trento and Bolzano. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
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Michelle Gisin of Switzerland celebrates winning the gold medal during the medal ceremony for the women's combined at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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A medical worker walks into a COVID testing booth after disinfecting the window in the parking lot of the Shangri-La Hotel at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Stefan Kraft, of Austria, celebrates with teammate Daniel Huber after they won gold in the men's team ski jumping eventat the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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FILE - Natalia Nepryaeva of Russia competes during the women's 10 km free style race at the Davos Nordic FIS Cross Country World Cup in Davos, Switzerland, on Dec. 16, 2018. The 2022 Olympics is just weeks away with China a more problematic host than expected for a Winter Games that had once seemed destined for Europe. The past weekend of World Cup ski events in two upscale Swiss towns that wanted to stage these Olympics showed what might have been. Games in snow-covered resorts with decades of winter sports tradition and without diplomatic boycotts or talk of human rights records. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)
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FILE -- In this Feb. 23, 2020 file photo, Italy's Federica Brignone smiles after completing an alpine ski, women's World Cup alpine combined, in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Amid a worldwide suspension of sports events, Brignone was awaiting a special delivery which arrived last month, with three crystal globes: the big 9-kilogram (20-pound) prize for her first overall World Cup triumph — she’s the first Italian woman to win the coveted honor in the 53-year history of the competition -- plus two smaller 3.5-kilogram (8-pound) globes for her season-long giant slalom and Alpine combined titles. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Handle with care: Brignone's crystal globes come in the mail

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