{"id":66404,"date":"2026-02-15T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/federica-brignone-sends-home-fans-wild-with-second-gold-as-shiffrin-struggles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:03:29","slug":"federica-brignone-sends-home-fans-wild-with-second-gold-as-shiffrin-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/federica-brignone-sends-home-fans-wild-with-second-gold-as-shiffrin-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Federica Brignone sends home fans wild with second gold as Shiffrin struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Italian wins her second gold medal on Cortina slopes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sara Hector and Thea Louise Stjernesund share silver<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federica Brignone, the racing queen of Cortina, has won her second gold medal in the space of three days at the Winter Olympics. After her victory in the women\u2019s Super-G on Friday, she won the giant slalom by just over six-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>As small as that gap sounds, it was an enormous margin in a race where there were only six-hundredths of a second between the three women who finished behind her; Sweden\u2019s Sara Hector, Norway\u2019s Thea Louise Stjernesund, and Brignone\u2019s Italian teammate Lara Della Mea. The gap between Brignone and second place was the same as that between second and 15th.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/15\/federica-brignone-giant-slalom-gold-italy-milano-cortina-winter-olympics-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian wins her second gold medal on Cortina slopes Sara Hector and Thea Louise Stjernesund share silver Federica Brignone, the racing queen of Cortina, has won her second gold medal in the space of three days at the Winter Olympics. After her victory in the women\u2019s Super-G on Friday, she won the giant slalom by &#8230; <a title=\"Federica Brignone sends home fans wild with second gold as Shiffrin struggles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/federica-brignone-sends-home-fans-wild-with-second-gold-as-shiffrin-struggles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federica Brignone sends home fans wild with second gold as Shiffrin struggles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}