Overview
- Italy named Hannah Auchentaller, Dorothea Wierer, Michela Carrara and Lisa Vittozzi for Wednesday's women's relay, leaving Rebecca Passler out.
- Lacking a relay spot and not qualified for the mass start, Passler will not compete at these Games.
- Passler had been provisionally suspended after a February 2 out-of-competition test detected letrozole, a prohibited anti-estrogen.
- After the Court of Arbitration for Sport declined jurisdiction, Italy's NADO appeals court lifted her suspension, citing the obvious reasonableness of unintentional contamination.
- She returned to official training in Antholz under FISI guidance with no media availability, as Italian reports outlined a possible household contamination involving her mother's cancer medication.