Arguably the most electric personality who ever stood in a starting gate, Alberto Tomba won 50 World Cup slalom and GS races and 13 World Championship and Olympic medals in a span of a dozen winters (1986 to 1998). Powerfully built, with curly black hair and more than his share of Italian charisma, Tomba had a childhood that didn’t much match the typical Euro racer’s rise from a poor family farmstead.