After Beijing medal mess, skicross racer Smith eyes trouble-free podium at Milano Cortina

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Swiss freeskier Fanny Smith has her medal. Her faith in skicross officials, however, remains lost as she prepares for another shot at an Olympic podium in the Italian Alps. Rewind to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, when Smith finished third in the women’s best-of-four skicross final and thought she had claimed a second career Olympic bronze. But after a lengthy video review, officials demoted Smith to fourth place and promoted Germany’s Daniela Maier to third. They judged that Smith had impeded Maier while splaying her skis as they jockeyed for position. Smith vehemently protested the decision in the bitter Chinese cold to no avail. She wasn’t done fighting, though. She...