Over his career, Paris has won 24 World Cup races and a world championship in the super-G in 2019. But an Olympic medal has eluded him. His best finish in his nine previous races was fourth in the downhill at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

After a brutal crash in training sidelined him for the 2022 Olympics, American Kyle Negomir fought for years to get to the Top 10 in Bormio.

"There's no Olympic spirit in Bormio at all, I think," Marco Odermatt, the world's top-ranked skier across three ​disciplines, said on Wednesday after the men's ‍first downhill ⁠training run.

The impending Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics pose challenges for Bormio, a northern Italian town. While hotels anticipate increased guests, ski rental and slope-side businesses face economic pressures.

Walk past the centrepiece of Bormio’s Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic events, the Stelvio ski slope, and you hear the clatter of construction as viewing screens and lights are pulled together.

Nestled in the Italian Alps northeast of Milan, Bormio may not be as famous as other Italian resort towns, but it has been drawing travelers for 2,000 years. During antiquity, the Romans loved to soak in the town’s nine naturally occurring hot springs.

Bormio is expected to get a new ski stadium before the 2026 Winter Olympics ©De Biasio If given the green light, the new stadium would be in place for the 2026 Winter Olympics. Bormio is due to stage the men's downhill, Alpine combined, super-G, giant ...

Italy's Dominik Paris clinched a long-awaited dream, earning the first Olympic medal of his storied career as Italy thrilled home fans in Bormio with a powerful double downhill podium alongside rising champion Giovanni Franzoni.