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Share Oriol Cardona made history by winning the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the ski-mountaineering sprint. It is a landmark achievement for Spanish sport, marking the country’s first gold medal at a Winter Games since Francisco Fernández Ochoa won the slalom in Sapporo back in 1972. Cardona, the undisputed world number one who arrived as the Milano-Cortina …

TODAY, you could drive through the little town of Lucena, halfway between Córdoba and Granada, without really noticing it, but on April 21 in the year 1483, a major battle was fought here. Spain was a Muslim-controlled territory for nearly eight centuries. You can hear it in Andalucian placenames (even ‘Gibraltar’ comes from Arabic) and more so when people speak. …