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Italy’s Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini called for a full
investigation into the circumstances of the 55-year-old worker’s
death.
Italian media reported that the death occurred on Thursday while
the worker was on duty at a construction site near Cortina’s ice
arena. Temperatures that night plunged to minus 12 degrees
Celsius (10.4 degrees Fahrenheit.)
Milan Cortina organizers said that the worker died of a heart
attack.
“The information we have is that it was a death by natural
cause, it was a heart attack. And we are investigating,” Andrea
Varnier, CEO of the Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026, told
reporters at a test event at the new hockey arena in Milan.
“All the documentation that we have was in order. And we are
waiting for the investigation to understand what the specific
cause was. At the moment, the information we have from the
emergency services is it was a death caused by natural causes
... while he was on site," Varnier said.
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are scheduled for Feb. 6-22.
The construction site was not one overseen by Simico, the
governmental company responsible for Olympic infrastructure, the
company said in a statement expressing its condolences.
Cortina city officials said they were “deeply saddened and
troubled by the death.’’
Cortina will host curling, sliding and women’s Alpine skiing.
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