CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The mountains that will host the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics have been hit with their first significant snowstorm of the season.

On the upper sections of the Olympia delle Tofane course in Cortina where women’s Alpine skiing will be contested for the Feb. 6-22 Games, up to 20 centimeters (nearly eight inches) of snow had fallen by Friday morning.

There was still some long grass popping out of the snow in places but the piste — and surrounding areas — are now wintry white.

“We have on top 20 centimeters of really fresh snow, light snow, and (at the finish) we have 15 (six inches),” said Matteo Gobbo, the local organizing committee’s venue sport manager for women’s skiing. “This should be a good base to improve the snow-making with the artifici

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