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Italian speed skater Francesca Lollobrigida took gold in the 3000m speed skating in Olympic record time, doing it in front of a roaring home crowd on her 35th birthday πβ£
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Lollobrigida stopped the clock at 3:54.28, shaving more than two-and-a-half seconds off the record set by Dutch legend Irene Schouten four years earlier in Beijing πβ£
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With the win, Lollobrigida becomes the first Italian woman to ever win Olympic gold in speed skating β and the first Italian athlete to strike gold at the 2026 Olympics πβ£
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