Kicker: Freestyle pizza

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NICK EICHER, HOST: At the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, athletes are not the only ones pushing the limits.

AP reporters covering the games found something you don’t find every day in Italy …

… in the Olympic hub of Livigno, they discovered what can only be called freestyle pizza.

Prosciutto and pineapple on the same pie!

AUDIO: “This shouldn’t happen.”

No, it's heresy!

AUDIO: “A big no.”

Yeah, pizza in Italy is not the casual food it is here. It’s cultural identity there. Regional. Protected. And practically constitutional. Pizza standards are written law. 

Besides: Pineapple doesn’t grow there.

AUDIO: It’s like you have something that you could tell in its simple form is delicious, and then you just ruin it.

So in Italy, there are medals for speed … medals for style ... but no podium for pineapple.

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