VIDEO SHOWS: WORKERS CLEARING SNOW, MOUNTAINS – AUDIO OF AVALANCHE CONTROL BLASTS, TRAFFIC RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY (FEBRUARY 5, 2026)(REUTERS – Access all) 1. TRAFFIC IN TOWN CENTRE WITH BANNER READING (Italian): “Welcome to Cortina” 2. VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC 3. VARIOUS OF WORKERS CLEARING SNOW 4. MAN WITH SUITCASE WALKING DOWN SLUSHY ROAD 5. TRAFFIC 6. PEOPLE CROSSING ROAD, POLICE 7. VARIOUS OF VOLUNTEERS IN SQUARE 8. FLAG WITH TEXT READING (English): “Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre” 9. DOG WITH VEST IN SNOW 10. PEOPLE IN TOWN CENTRE 11. MOUNTAIN (AUDIO OF AVALANCHE CONTROL BLAST) 12. HOUSES WITH MOUNTAINS IN BACKGROUND 13. MOUNTAIN (AUDIO OF AVALANCHE CONTROL BLAST) 14. VARIOUS OF SNOW COVERED OLYMPIC RINGS STORY: Workers were busy clearing the snow from the roads and avalanche control blasts were carried out in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Thursday (February 5) following heavy snowfall in the last couple of days. The snowfall forced Milano Cortina Olympics organisers to cancel the first of three training runs for Sunday's (February 8) women's downhill, which was due to take place on Thursday. The two other training runs are scheduled for Friday and Saturday as organisers expect to have time to prepare the Olimpia delle Tofane piste. The cancellation of Thursday's run means that Lindsey Vonn, the 2010 downhill Olympic champion, and still among the bookies' favourites for Sunday's race, will have to wait another day to test her left knee after she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in a crash at a World Cup downhill in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, last Friday. (Production: Cristiano Corvino, Ilze Filks)
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