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Pomagagnon, a mountain in the Dolomites, towers above Cortina d’Ampezzo, and the Cortina Sliding Center below, where Italy’s Dominik Fischnaller competes in a men’s singles luge run during the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, on February 8, 2026.
Updated at 3:40 p.m. ET on February 8, 2026
Lindsey Vonn always knew that it would take just one slight catch of an edge to turn her from the reigning empress of alpine skiing into a broken figure in the snow. That’s the nature of the Olympic downhill. It was no use for the scolds and skeptics to warn an athlete like Vonn, who, at 41, had one rebuilt knee and a torn ACL on the other, that she might hurt herself.
Somehow the word
allow is in the word
swallow and in swallow
two wholly different meanings:
one to take in through
the mouth and another
what we call the common
winged gnat hunter who
is, in all probability,
somewhere near us now.
Once, I thought
if I knew all the words
I would say the right thing
in the right way,
instead language becomes
more brutish: blink twice
for the bird, blink once
for tender annihilation. Who
knows what we are doing as
we go about our days lazily
choosing our languages.
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