Alpine Skiing
The February 18, 1992 has definitely been the best day in the history of Alpine Italian: in winter skiing that Tuesday, exactly a quarter of a century ago, Deborah Compagnoni and Alberto Tomba won an Olympic gold medal each for the Albertville Games.
Saturday 18 February 2017 5 minutes reading time
It starts at 10 am with the first heat of the men's giant on newborn Face de Bellevarde in Val d'Isere, in which Alberto prayer Marc Girardelli of 13 cents, Kjetil Andre Aamodt of 24 and Paul Accola 31: a royal finish order considered Accola who was experiencing its magical season and Aamodt issued the first stirrings of a career that would be extraordinary.
12:15 is the time of women's super-G in Méribel, in which the most favored is the mistress of the French company Carole Merle fact that at the end of the 15 athletes of the first group is in front of all. But with the number 16 comes a 21-year old Santa Caterina, Deborah Compagnoni, who won the super-G of Morzine 23 days before, coincidentally also in France, and four times in the second and one in giant slalom The Valtellina invents a stratospheric descent and he won the first of his six Olympic or world Championship gold medals.
Deborah Merle off even 1 second and 41 cents, the German Katja Seizinger of 1 "97 and Austrian Petra Kronberger and Ulrike Maier of 1" 98 and 2 "13. Another of the royal arrival order and the day after Deborah has every chance of repeating itself but falls after 15 seconds of the first round and his scream, which meant the rupture of cruciate in his left knee, entered by force in Italian homes making it a beloved character.
At 14 second run of the giant and tension to a thousand: Accola, Aamodt Girardelli and follow each other in the head by defending their positions. It's up to Alberto, the first two intermediate lags behind Girardelli but in the end is faster dell'austrolussemburghese nearly 4/10 and at the finish line ahead of the 32 cents Olympic denying that gold that Gira will never win, while Alberto is the first in the history of alpine skiing to confirm Olympic gold won in the previous edition in the same specialty. Aamodt is bronze at 84 cents, Accola quarter to 1 "04. That triumphant day was completed by the first medal won by an Italian cross-country men's relay, a silver, behind the then unreachable Norway.
The photos published by us shows the first page of the BBC then directed by Candido Reedy, from which, for the first time in the history of contemporary sport, football was completely ousted. Other times, other newspapers, other directors, other media attention to a sport which nowadays television generalist media notice only if it falls a drone on the track or a camera in the finish area. February 18, 1992, 25 years ago: a day that will hardly be forgotten by those who have also lived only by the viewer.
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