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 ...
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.
Marco Odermatt found moments of clarity on a foggy day in the Italian Dolomites to race to victory in a World Cup downhill on Thursday. A 50th career World Cup win for the Swiss generational talent — ...
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 ...
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 ...
TURIN, Italy — Alberto Tomba is tired of the player haters. You think it’s easy to be a country’s biggest winter sports star, a famous playboy, object of women’s desires? “It’s difficult when you’re ...
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' ...
Novak Djokovic channeling his inner three-time Olympic Gold medalist, Alberto Tomba, while skiing in Italy delighted tennis fans online. Djokovic kicked off his 2024 season at the United Cup, followed ...
Alberto Tomba continues to be almost invincible. The Italian superstar skied to his 10th victory in 12 tries this season, winning a giant slalom Saturday to move closer to his first World Cup overall ...
After winning, he whirls his poles overhead like a twin-bladed chopper, sending gusts of excitement through the hillsides. Half smiling and half scowling through a three-day growth, he walks over to ...
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 ...
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 ...