Challenges and controversies loom as Italy gets ready for Winter Games
by editors@theworld.org (Orla Barry) from The World: Latest Stories on (#73B94)
Italy is preparing to host the Winter Olympics this week and for the first time in the Games' history, the event will be split between two cities. Milan, the country's fashion capital, and Cortina d'Ampezzo, high in the Dolomite mountains, will share hosting duties across a vast area stretching hundreds of miles. But the scale of the event is only one of several challenges facing this year's Winter Games. The World's Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports.