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Fascist salutes from the podium: Cortina's forgotten 'mini-Olympics' during World War II
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) -- A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the "Snow Stadium" -- on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now stands.
