Long-distance swimming star Gregorio Paltrinieri will be Italy's first torchbearer for next February's Winter Olympics at Milano-Cortina, ANSA sources said Wednesday.     The 2016 Olympic 1,500m freestyle gold medallist and multiple long-course world champ will open the journey of the Milan-Cortina torch in Rome on Saturday, following the lighting ceremony the day before at the presidential Quirinale Palace.     Among the other torchbearers are basketball player Achille Polonara, who is

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