Babi and Mauri come back home
from Salt Lake City

And of course there we were, anxiously waiting for them at the airport!!

Here on the right:Fabrizio, Vittorio, Diego, a bit of Lidia, Nives and Fiorenza holding Lidia latest creation...

Valentina, with her little pareo/flag is looking curiously at the monitors to check if the flight has landed

. Finally they appear through the doors.... I use again my "hold up the camera and click without looking" technique and manage to catch Babi coming in...

one of the first people who manages to hug her is her mother Nives

Now a bit of credit to those who have done so much working with our champions:on the left there's Roberto Pelizzola (out of focus: a quite animated Jyrina and a smiling Mauri), while on the right there's Ludmilla Vlasova (for once without her gorgeous coats & hats) between Nives, Vittorio and Fabrizio in the background.

Mauri is already surrounded by the crowd

Who is reaching for his medal? Why is he lookin upset?

"How did you manage to get it from him?" Seems to be saying Massimiliano (Mauri's brother) to Fabrizio Pedrazzini

Babi is signing some t-shirt, and Angela is a very useful desk...

Babi looks lovely in the first pic with flowers and her Olympic medal... a lot funnier the second picture, where she poses amused with our "golden" chocolate medal... our revised medal ceremony!

A nice pic of our champions---if only there was not that phone.... but hey, big starts are busy people! As soon as they landed people started calling them!

A much nicer shot, but of course my stupid camera has decided to not work properly... aaaargh!

And finally, here it is.. the (in)famous bronze medal...