Many Italian competitors, e.g. Goggia, Vinatzer, Wierer etc. In my opinion Colturi could start for Italy and have the same money now as with the Albanian flag. I doubt if the Albanian ski federation is very rich, since their entire sport is weak, let alone winter sports.
Ceccarelli wanted to take money from the federation and train daughter in her team. The federation didn`t want to agree to this, because we are talking about a 16-year-old girl at the time. Private teams have stars with recognized achievements, e.g. Brignone or Goggia (they also trained in junior teams at the age of 16). In my opinion, Ceccarelli could have collected money from private funds, after all, with such successes of her daughter it wouldn`t be a problem. Tina Maze also separated from Slovenia at some point and created her own team. In a situation in which Colturi would start to achieve successes, then the federation should start to finance her team more + private sponsors. For me it`s simple.
I think that It's a similar situation with Braahten in Norway but there are some differences:
- he's an adult,
- his mother is Brazilian,
- Norway has a lot of talent in technical events (although of course it's always better to have 1 more than 1 less).