Slalom

How can you dream of becoming a ski champion if you don't have innate talent and are an overweight child? How can you decide to continue fighting to emerge if, at twenty years old, on your debut in the World Cup you shatter your knee halfway through the race? How can you win the gold medal at your home Olympics if you carry the enormous weight of an entire country's expectations on your shoulders? With a good dose of self-irony and a charge of sincerity, always poised between action and emotion and between joy and disappointment, Rocca describes the sporting and human experiences that led him to excel on the tracks all over the world. world, in a not so distant era when alpine skiing was desperately looking for Alberto Tomba's heir. A requited love that allowed him to win, in a fourteen-year career, the slalom World Cup, three bronze medals at the World Championships and eleven victories in the White Circus.