With the death, in the last few hours, of Alessandro Casse, the Val di Susa loses one of the men who wrote the most important pages in the history of winter sports in blue. The 75-year-old skier from Oulx was two-time world champion in the kilometer jump in the seventies, and holder of the world record in specialties, before turning to the activity of coach.
Several champions have grown up under him, starting with Piero Gros, who with his teachings marked the first stages of his sports career which culminated in Olympic and world championship triumphs.
In recent years he had instead dedicated himself to growing his son Mattia Casse, an athlete who has collected numerous successes in the Italian national alpine skiing team.
Among the many who are remembering the Valsusian champion on social media in these hours, the curators of the Facebook page of the “kilometro launched” in paying homage to Alessandro Casse retrace the stages of his activity: “A fighter, struck so often by bad luck, who has never denied a smile, an encouragement to others “,” we will miss your smile “underline the friends of the former Azzurri who took his first steps on the snow in the ranks of the” Edoardo Agnelli “ski school, and then became juniors in Skiing club Sestriere and thus start the long list of successes in various specialties, from downhill to slalom.
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