Milan Cortina’s wide footprint reshapes Olympic experience

MILAN — The head of Haiti’s ski federation, Thierry Montiller, spent over four hours driving mountain roads from Bormio, near the Swiss border, where his downhill skier is competing in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, to Tesero in Val di Fiemme for his cross-country skier’s 10-kilometer race on Friday. And he’s headed back to Bormio on Saturday, another 220 kilometers (140 miles), for the giant slalom race. “Yes, it is a major difficulty to have such distances,’’ he said. Winter Olympics have often had city and mountain clusters, but these Games spread the mountain clusters over a much wider area, and the distance to the city is considerably farther. In total, competitions are taking place...