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«If I was asked to tell you about an image of happiness, that would be me on an upland, sitting on a rock, under the sun, a book in my hands»
Stefania Belmondo

First love it’s an act of reparation put in an envelope and addressed to the first love. It’s the story of a boy in the 90s who didn’t like football but cross country skiing instead – and dancing too, but since he didn’t know any movement he used to copy the ones of ski, in his living room, in his bedroom, swallowed by the everlasting green of a Northern Italian province.
That boy now grown up, not anymore a skier but a dancer, not on the snow but on the stage, not a competitor but still a competitor, because of that agonistic attitude towards choreography that never fades away, recurring as it is, he met his childhood idol, the OIympic Champion Stefania Belmondo, and went back to the mountain. Time has come to tell the world that his first love needed to exist, that it would tear his chest apart more than anything else.

Re-enacting the most renowned competition run by the Italian champion, a 1

The night after she won her fifth medal and became the most-decorated athlete at these Winter Games, Manuela Di Centa, the dazzling Italian cross-country skier, celebrated at a dinner with friends in a private home near Lillehammer. But she was not entirely happy. The cover of a magazine in Milan pictured her topless on a beach in Italy. "Why do they do these things?" Di Centa said. "I was with my family at this beach. What is the importance of this?"

The importance of this was that la bella Manuela had suddenly become the queen of skiing in Italy. And henceforth she would share the hearts and minds of her countrymen—not to mention their gossip columns—with the king, the flamboyant slalomist Alberto Tomba, who was also having his troubles with Italian tabloids.

It was not as if Di Centa was an unknown before these Olympics. Now 31, she began competing on the national team when she was 17, and more than once her rebellious spirit and her radiant beauty had made her a hot subject in the papers. After four seasons with the Italian team she quit cold in 1984, loudly denouncing the national ski federation. "They paid no attention to women," Di Centa says. "We skied, but we were taught nothing. The world of cross-country skiing used unnatural systems—yes, blood doping [then legal] went on. I didn't agree with these things. I quit."

When the coaching staff of the ski federation changed in 1987, Di Centa returned to the team and soon began a feud with its rising star, the steady Stefania Belmondo, who is six years Di Centa's junior and her opposite in personality. Di Centa resented the fact that she had fought the battle for women on the team while Belmondo simply sashayed through the door Di Centa had opened. It didn't help that Belmondo repeatedly outshone Di Centa in competition, including at Albertville in 1992, where Belmondo won three Olympic medals to Di Centa's one.

Di Centa didn't know it, but at the time of the '92 Games she was suffering from a

French actor (1933–2021)

Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃pɔlʃaʁlbɛlmɔ̃do]; 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward, frequently portraying police officers and criminals in action thriller films. His best known credits include Breathless (1960), That Man from Rio (1964), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Borsalino (1970), and The Professional (1981). An undisputed box-office champion like Louis de Funès and Alain Delon of the same period, Belmondo attracted nearly 160 million spectators in his 50-year career. Between 1969 and 1982 he played four times in the most popular films of the year in France: The Brain (1969), Fear Over the City (1975), Animal (1977), Ace of Aces (1982), being surpassed on this point only by Louis de Funès.

Belmondo frequently played heroic, brave, and virile characters, which made him popular with a wide audience both in France and abroad. Despite being heavily courted by Hollywood, Belmondo refused to appear in English-language films . During his career, he was called the French counterpart of actors such as James Dean, Marlon Brando and Humphrey Bogart. Described as an icon and national treasure of France, Belmondo was seen as an influential actor in French cinema and an important figure in shaping European cinema. In 1989, Belmondo won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté. He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards throughout his career. In 2011, Belmondo received the Palme d'honneur at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2017 he received the César d'honneur at the 42nd César Awards.

Early life

Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, on 9