India, Feb. 10 -- This could turn out to be Italy's best Winter Olympics ever after a record-breaking day on home snow and ice. The host nation picked up six medals on Sunday, the most Italy has ever won in a single day at the Winter Olympics. The breakdown: one silver and five bronze. Ski star Sofia Goggia kicked it off with a bronze medal in the women's downhill and Lucia Dalmasso was also third in snowboarding's parallel giant slalom.

The Italy team won silver in the mixed relay biathlon race and Riccardo Lorello claimed bronze in the men's speedskating 5,000 meters. The official X account for the Milan Cortina Games proclaimed it to be Italy's best day in Winter Olympics history. And that was before Dominik Fischnaller won bronze in ...