Arianna Fontana wins the silver medal in the 1500 meters short track at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, winning the eleventh career medal at the Games. The 31-year-old from Valtellina closes the 1500m final at the Beijing 2022 Olympics in second place with a time of 2’17 “862 behind the Korean Minjeong Choi (2’17” 789) and in front of the Dutch Suzanne Schulting (2’17 “865). Fontana with 11 medals (2 golds, 4 silvers, 5 bronzes) becomes the most successful Italian athlete at the Winter Games, detaching the cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo who is still at 10. For Italy it is the fifteenth medal in Beijing: two golds, 7 silvers and 6 bronzes. Italy also won the bronze medal in the men’s short track relay. The blue quartet made up of Pietro Sighel, Yuri Confortola, Tommaso Dotti and Andrea Cassinelli closed the test in 6’43 “431 preceding at the photo finish Russia (6’43 “440) for only nine thousandths. Gold to Canada (6’41” 257) ahead of South Korea (6’41 “679). Today’s loot brings Olympic medals to 101 in management by the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, in fact since Malagò was president of the Coni, Italy won 8 medals in Sochi 2014 (6 silvers and 2 bronzes), 28 in Rio 2016 (8 golds, 12 silvers and 8 bronzes), 10 in PyeongChang 2018 (3 golds, 5 silvers and 2 bronzes), 40 in Tokyo 2020 ( 10 golds, 10 silvers and 20 bronzes) and with today’s 14 in Beijing 2022 (2 golds, 6 silvers and 6 bronzes). Overall, therefore, Malagò’s Italy won 23 golds, 40 silvers and 38 bronzes.