41.   Tomba won that giant slalom race, becoming the first skier to successfully defend an Olympic Alpine title.

42.   Tomba, an Olympic and world champion, can become the first skier to win Olympic medals in four different editions.

43.   Under the handicap start formula, the first skier to finish wins.

44.   At the Austrian resort of Kitzbuehl last month, Tomba became the first skier to clinch six back-to-back World Cup slaloms in a season.

45.   But the sensation of the day was Strobl who on Friday became the first skier in World Cup history to win his first ever downhill.

46.   Ceccarelli made Italian history by becoming the first skier not from the northern Alpine region of Italy to strike gold.

47.   She became the first alpine skier to net four medals at one Games.