Laureus World Sports Academy and AIPS (International Sports Press Association) held a special media reception on Tuesday evening to celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Many Olympic ...
To the limited extent that Americans embrace ski racing, we tend to love the swashbucklers, the hell-bent-for-leather downhillers. Like Bill Johnson and Tommy Moe, two Yanks who had runs of a lifetime ...
Alberto Tomba has united generations, drawing them towards skiing with his overwhelming charisma. He defined an era and became an icon of Italian sport with Olympic and World golds, World Cups, even ...
You think it’s easy to be a country’s biggest winter sports star and a famous playboy? “It’s difficult when you’re Tomba, when people think they know Tomba,” said the one and only Alberto Tomba.
TURIN, Italy - Asked what advice he'd give Bode Miller, Alberto Tomba threw his head back and let out a roar of laughter that bounced around the hotel lobby's marble floor. "Don't win too much," Tomba ...
Lindsey Vonn reacted to Jannik Sinner's list of the best skiers of all time. The American athlete was elated to be named the best by the Italian tennis player. Since Sinner wasn't given the skiers' ...
Alberto Tomba signed off his career in style with his 50th World Cup win in the World Cup Finals at Crans Montana in 1998.
Freeze Alberto Tomba in a camera frame and his secret becomes clear. It's power. Every muscle in the skier's body is straining, bulging out of his spandex bodysuit. Even his tongue is flexing. Other ...
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Alberto Tomba doesn’t do mornings. The nocturnal beast of Alpine skiing who once bragged of a training regimen of wine, women and pasta plunged down the slope at 9:30 a.m. Sunday and finished with a ...
Tomba by video, flogging the PyeongChang bid. (ATR)(ATR) Italian ski great Alberto Tomba became a surprise spokesman for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics bid in the final presentation to the IOC ...
Alberto Tomba is one of the best and most successful skiers of all time, but now the Italian is in deep mourning: his father Franco died at the weekend at the age of 84. "Franco is the one who made ...