Arianna Fontana: A Winter Olympic legend's long road home

Arianna Fontana is Italy's most-decorated Winter Olympian. She won her first Olympic short-track speed skating medal in 2006, when she was just 15 years old. Twenty years on, Fontana heads into Milan-Cortina as one of the faces of this year's Games. She'll be carrying the Italian flag in the opening ceremony, before bidding to add to her tally of 11 Olympic medals - including golds in the 500m at both the 2018 and 2022 Games.

Earlier this year, Arianna Fontana spoke to the BBC's Ed Harry from her home town in the Italian Alps about how far she's come from that first Olympic medal to now. She explains how she's spent two decades at the top of one of the most intense and unpredictable sports in the Olympic programme, and how she manages to stay in control at high speed on the ice when surrounded by her rivals.

Fontana also talks about why she's spent four years on the road with her husband and coach, Anthony Lobello, to prepare for the Games, and how the dynamic between them works. And as she gets ready to race at an Olympics in Italy for a second time, Fontana shares what competing in her home country means to her.

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