Alberto Tomba turns 50: Happy Birthday, great champion!

It 'an important day for the sport in our house: today the largest Italian skier of all time, Alberto Tomba, turns 50!

Monday 19 December 2016 4 minutes reading time

A character who certainly needs no introduction, winner of three Olympic golds and two silvers, two golds and two world bronze medals, 50 races plus another 38 World Cup podiums, eight specialty cups, four giant four in slalom, and finally the absolute crystal ball in his magical winter 1994-1995. In short, an absolute champion of the slalom and the giant, and one of the greatest skiers in history (the position at which deserves to be you could argue endlessly), but also a resounding media personality, the biggest I've ever skiing He got together with Bode Miller was the first that each race, prior to departure, was also consistently framed by the cameras of TV foreign, especially in Austria where he was an absolute idol despite being the most dangerous opponent of the athletes of Wunderteam, and sometimes even after losing a race, like in Lillehammer in 1994 when he was second behind Thomas Stangassinger, the cameras and the media they were all for him. E 'it was also one "anomalous" because skiers came from Bologna plain and early career was regarded with suspicion or even ignored by the natives of the mountain compatriots, compatriots who then swept all one after the other, at least those that competed in his two specialties, to the sound of repeat victories. Today even the drafting of Neveitalia celebrates this anniversary with some sort of Tomb Day, also marked dall'hashtag #AlbertoTombaDay: publish photos and videos on our Facebook page Neveitalia Sports and re-present our initiative "The Tomb Cup" with which two winters ago we celebrated the FIFA World Cup won 20 years before the national dall'Albertone, still the last Italian to have succeeded in alpine skiing. An alpine ski that after the withdrawal of Tomba fell into oblivion and the sport were not enough medals, victories and cups of various specialties Italian athletes in the following years and even the six podiums Sofia Goggia this season to regain the space it deserves on our sports newspapers and on our televisions. heartiest greetings Alberto!

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