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Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, First Female Olympic Oath Taker, Dies at 88

Agence France-Presse

   ROME - Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, the first female athlete to deliver the
   Olympic oath, in 1956, and the first woman to win a Winter Games medal
   for Italy four years earlier, has died at the age of 88.

   The Italian was hailed by her country's alpine skiing federation as
   "one of the greatest post-war champions."

   Chenal-Minuzzo won downhill bronze in the 1952 Oslo Olympics, going on
   to claim a second bronze at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games, that time in
   the giant slalom.

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