Alberto Tomba was behind the microphone Tuesday after winning an Olympic gold, so naturally the questions were about the women in his life: whom he likes, whom he doesn`t, whom he`s dating now and … ...

The son of a textile magnate, Alberto and his older brother Marco did not grow up skiing in the Alps like the great Italian skiers before them. Franco Tomba would drive his boys from his 16th ...

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 ...

Alberto Tomba brought his slalom act to the Southland this week-- he was on roller blades zipping around the crowd on the Strand in Hermosa Beach. “I go swoosh, swoosh . . . I cover five miles ...

Alberto Tomba told a Japanese reporter that he would be happy to cook up a plate of spaghetti for her at the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, where, he added, he will be very retired from skiing.

Asked what advice he’d give Bode Miller, Alberto Tomba threw his head back and let out a roar of laughter. “Don’t win too much,” Tomba told the Associated Press. “Then they won’t make ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Messi behaves on the pitch like Alberto Tomba on the slopes,” Michniewicz said of the Italian skier from the 1980s and ’90s who won Olympic gold medals in slalom and giant slalom.

Tomba: Yes, that was a great moment. Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch.

Legendary playboy and triple gold medal winner of the Eighties and Nineties laments the lack of a successor ...

Alberto Tomba doesn’t do mornings.The nocturnal beast of Alpine skiing who once bragged of a training regimen of wine, women and pasta plunged down the slope at 9:30 a.m. Sunday and finished ...