White Winter Olympics beckons as snow falls in Italian Alps

From Bormio, home to the ski mountaineering races, to the Antholz valley where biathletes will tote their rifles, venues have seen intense snowfall less than two weeks before the opening ceremony on February 6, an expert said Monday. "The snow has arrived," Italian meteorologist Mattia Gussoni told AFP, while pictures of the areas showed white mountain peaks, low-hanging snow clouds, and blanketed fields. The Milan-Cortina Games, which run from February 6 to 22, will be scattered across the mountains of northern Italy...