Gabriella Durante is 25 years old, she was born in Calgary, Canada but she will be the starting goalkeeper for Italy’s ice hockey team at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games. A path that starts from her Italian roots, with her grandparents originally from San Giovanni in Fiore, in the province of Cosenza, and passes through the last two seasons played with Real Torino and some international appearances with Ev Eagles Bolzano. From Calabrian origins to the five-circle dream«The fact of having an Italian passport is leading me to the dream of playing the Winter Olympics with the blue shirt», said Durante, who until Sunday is in Egna, Alto Adige, for the last training sessions with the national team before entering the Olympic Village in Milan. «When I completed the bureaucratic procedures I immediately found out how to do it in order to have this possibility: I really care about it and I’m happy with what I did».