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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — USA Luge men’s doubles slider Zack DiGregorio is a New England Patriots fan. Makes sense: He’s from Massachusetts, his mother has worked for the Patriots for more than two decades and the Patriots are about to play in the Super Bowl for the 10th time since he was born.
He doesn’t miss games. Especially not big games. And games get no bigger than the Super Bowl.
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Welcome to a Super-sized Olympic dilemma: What does one do when football’s biggest game collides with the Milan Cortina Games? In Italy, the game between the Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks kicks off Monday at 12:30 a.m., a time when Olympians like DiGregorio should be asleep and not exhausting themselves before taking part in their own Super Bowl of sliding.
“If I happen to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom,” DiGregorio said, “I may be tuning in.”
He won’t be the only one in Italy with a gaze locked on a TV, laptop or phone screen in the wee hours of Monday morning. There are 15 members of this U.S. Olympic team from Massachusetts, eight more from Washington and who knows how many else with reason to watch.
Gold-medal pursuits may be forgotten, for a few hours anyway, to watch two teams play for a silver trophy. And yes, some Olympians with major rooting interests in this game say they’ll go without and make sure their sleep cycles aren’t interrupted.
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“I’m not going to be able to watch because that’s going to be real late here,” said curling Olympian Korey Dropkin, who was born in Massachusetts. “But as my form of support, I’m going to wear my Pats jersey to bed.”
Then again, some athletes at the Olympics won’t have to stay up to watch. It seems a few already are somehow aware of the outcome.
“It’ll be the middle of the night here so I think we will see the score afterwards,” said short track speed skater Corinne Stoddard, a Seattle native. “We don’t want to be up all night. But the Seahawks are going to win. I don’t have any doubt in my mind about that one. We’ve proved it all year. So, good luck, Patriots.”
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Author : TIM REYNOLDS
Publish date : 2026-02-07 19:55:00
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