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Alberto Tomba retired at the end of the 1998 season, but not before winning a last World Cup race at the Finals at Crans-Montana where he grabbed the slalom, becoming the only alpine male skier to have won at least one World Cup race per year for 11 consecutive seasons.
Apr 23, 2024 · The next year he took gold medals in the slalom and giant slalom at the Alpine world championships. At the 1998 Nagano (Japan) Olympics, however, he did not ski well and failed to win a medal in either slalom event. Later that year he won his 50th World Cup race, in the slalom, and retired shortly thereafter.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 8, 2018 · However, the biggest incentive to retire was the pressure that Tomba felt from constantly being in the media spotlight. "It's not enough just to race," Tomba said in 1996, according to Outdoor Online.
Oct 5, 1998 · Oct. 5, 1998. Winter will seem longer and grayer this year. Alberto Tomba has retired, and skiing is hardly the better for it. He was not the most successful men's alpine skier in history:...
Mar 1, 2013 · Tomba’s farewell appearance in the Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 ended in a rare failure but, after watching the next two as a frustrated spectator, he came to the conclusion he had stopped...
He is one of the greatest Alpine skiers in history. Alberto Tomba competed in his first Games at Calgary in 1988, and within the space of 48 hours, between 25 and 27 February, he won the giant slalom and the slalom. He became “La Bomba”, a huge star in Italy and within his sport, and continued to produce stellar performances for the next 10 ...
Aug 23, 2018 · Born in San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy, on Dec. 19th, 1966, Alberto Tomba raised in Castel de Britti, an area without solid alpine skiing traditions, but not far from the Apennine Mountains. The son of a wealthy businessman in the textile industry burst onto the scene in 1984, when he beat every member of the A team in a PSL exhibition on the ...
