Arianna Fontana won Italy's first gold medal of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang with victory in the 500 metres short track speed skating on Tuesday. The skater, Italy's flagbearer at the Games opening ceremony, beat the Netherlands' Yara Van Kerkhof in a photofinish.
Italy's Federico Pellegrino, meanwhile, took the silver medal in the men's cross country sprint event The Italian came from behind to pinch silver from Russian Alexander Bolshunov by just two hundredths of a second in a race won by Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
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