Arianna Fontana paid tribute to her team mates after claiming a record-breaking 14th Olympic medal on Wednesday by helping Italy take silver in the women's short track speed skating 3,000 metres relay at Milano Cortina.
    The 35-year-old is now the Italian athlete to have won more Olympic medals than anyone else, having surpassed fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti, who won 13 between 1936 and 1960.
    She is now also joint second in the all-time Winter Olympic medal standings, one behind Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bj›rgen.
    That tally includes the golds she won in the mixed relay event in Milano Cortina and in the individual 500m at Pyeongchang in 2018 and Beijing in 2022.
    It is her third medal of the current Olympic as she also took silver in the women's 500m individual event.
    She won her first Olympic medal 20 years ago at Torino 2006, when she helped Italy win bronze in the 3,000m relay to become the youngest Italian to win a Winter Olympic medal at the age of 15 years and 314 days.
    "Even though it's my 14th, winning it like this is truly incredible," Fontana said after Wednesday's final.
    "The crowd was fantastic.

I have no words, I had a drop in my blood pressure in the locker room...
    "It was a team effort.

Every single one of us. No one excluded".
   
   

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