The Swede and his first triumph 50 years ago in Campiglio: “Afterwards everything was easier, but as a child I dreamed of something else. I pole vault and at 68 I have more room for improvement than Armand…”
Ingo is back. Ingemar Stenmark, and who else? The one who won more than anyone on the legendary 3Tre, 8 of the 86 successes achieved in the World Cup, a record beaten only by the American queen Mikaela Shiffrin. He doesn’t really seem to care, to be honest, but only because that glittering career as a Martian confirms that he ended it on the day of the last race, and the last success on the major circuit, on 19 February 1989 in Aspen, United States. If he agrees to talk about it it is only because fifty years have passed since the first of those eight triumphs (it was also the first of his career) and for the occasion Campiglio gave him the welcome reserved for kings. The snow king, in fact.