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The first-ever Winter Olympics skimo events are about to begin in Bormio. (Getty Images: Xinhua/Lian Yi)
The Olympic family's newest sport is set to ignite the lower slopes of the Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio on Thursday, local time.
But what is it? And why are the athletes so excited?
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In skimo, athletes spend at least some of the time running up the hill. (Getty Images: Francesco Scaccianoce)
Immensely popular in the European Alps, skimo sees skiers climb up the side of a mountain on their skis, or sometimes on foot with the skis attached to their backs, before descending back down in a far more orthodox manner.
Fatton, Cardona Coll win gold in Olympic ski mountaineering
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BORMIO, Italy — The sport of ski mountaineering made its long-awaited Olympics debut Thursday and crowned its first champion at the Milan Cortina Games in Marianne Fatton of Switzerland.
With snow falling, Fatton navigated the uphill-then-downhill sprint course lined with a diamond-shaped pattern and stairs in a lung-searing time of 2 minutes, 59.77 seconds. She edged Emily Harrop of France by 2.38 seconds. Ana Alonso Rodriguez of Spain took bronze as she competed on a torn ACL.
In the men's sprint race, Oriol Cardona Coll of Spain cruised to the win. Nikita Filippov finished with the silver, becoming the first individual neutral athlete to earn a medal in Italy. Thibault Anselmet of France captured bronze.
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