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Tomba-Brignone, a new duet at CasaSkySport: "Alberto? He gave me a thousand tips"

Guests of Carlo Vanzini at Sky Sport 24, here are the words of the two blue champion winners, 25 years later, of the World Cup. And Albertone recalls: "How far Paris was going ...".

Thursday 19 March 2020 3 minutes reading time

A new duet after what, in the combined post of Crans-Montana, had seen Albertone incense Fede for his poker on the track that saw him triumph for the last time in his career. Alberto Tomba and Federica Brignone met again, albeit at a distance, thanks to the work of Carlo Vanzini and Sky Sport: in the afternoon program "CasaSkySport", a connection was in fact staged with the two blue champions who brought the last two absolute crystal balls in Italy. The Bolognese champion in 1995, the Aosta Valley star 25 years later. And there was no shortage of jokes and sketches, given the excellent relationship between the two: "You are strong in slalom too," said Alberto a Fede who, at Vanzini's precise question on the possibility of extending his commitment to the specialty for her at the moment less profitable, he clarified. "I enjoy it and it is also useful for the combined one, but it is difficult to think of doing all the races at the highest level and in slalom you need specific training like in no other discipline". The most exciting slalom for Tomba? "There are many, from the gold of Calgary to the last of Crans-Montana", while Brignone said she was "jealous of Alberto when I see her images with the cup. I could not live that moment on the podium, and I still have not received anything at home ... ". The excitement of that message with which he discovered he had won the most coveted trophy "will remain indelible, as I remember all the advice Alberto gave me this season. I heard it regularly during the winter, it was a help. " And Albertone himself kept remembering what Dominik Paris had done before the injury: "He started in fifth, who knows where he would have arrived ...". Really, who knows ...

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