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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 ...

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 has written a book, "The Longest Slalom." An autobiography. A book that tells the story of a person who has never been seen. "Simply," he recounts in an interview with Aldo Cazzullo in ...

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 could retire. Live out the rest of his life in the quiet comfort of the northern hills of Italy, growing grapes and olive trees. La Bomba, quiet? Not a chance. More like La Bombastic.

MILAN — A rousing Opening Ceremony that included everything from dancing musical notes to massive paint tubes to massive flying Olympic rings to Mariah Carey ended with a dramatic reveal as Italian ...

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 ...

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.

Waltzing into a party in Cortina d’Ampezzo just before midnight, the room goes quiet, all heads swivel and a stocky, middle-aged guy with the familiar shock mop of jet-black curls nods and kisses his ...

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 ...