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 ...

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.

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 ...

TURIN, Italy -- Alberto Tomba retired from the slopes eight years ago, but in Turin these days the Italian skier has returned to the public eye with a vengeance. His face is plastered on billboards up ...