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CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland--Alberto Tomba threw himself to the ground at the finish line, rolled on his back and burst into tears. Then he stripped to his undershirt and hugged his sister...
...soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville. And there was slalom ace Alberto Tomba, saying he wanted to find a girl to settle down with. As the newcomer Kazakova said, after surviving a singled double Axel, "We have a little problem"--and then her face brightened--"but I think no problem...
...SATURDAY The great Alberto Tomba has won three Olympic golds. No Alpine skier has ever won four, and this is La Bomba's last chance at glory in his best discipline, slalom...
...schedule still gives the Italian a chance to blow past the all-time season record of 13 wins posted in 1979 by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. Tomba's comeback is a bottomless source of marvel for his adoring fans. His Olympic disappointments last year in Lillehammer, Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder...
...coach, former Italian champ Gustavo Thoeni, swears that his restless charge has settled down: ``I'm not saying he goes to bed at 10 p.m., but usually by midnight, yes.'' Many followers also believe that his engagement to Martina Colombari, a 20-year-old former Miss Italy, has cooled Tomba's boogie-all- night habits at resort discos. True? Says Tomba: ``They seem to forget that I've been with her for three years.'' Still, he acknowledges being ``just a little more serious...