Marco Olmo is the best ultra-trail runner in the world. He runs for more than 160 km non-stop, twenty hours of race in the desert of Morocco or on Monte Bianco, at 2500 m. high.Marco is from Robilante, a little municipality in the Piedmont Alps, in Vermenagna Valley, not far from Cuneo. On the eighth of October he will be sixty years old. Marco is a legend between runners and worldwide enthusiasts. He is a symbol of passion, strenght and clean sport. Born into a peasant family, when he was twenty he left the country to work in the town’s cement plant. His fate and life have been marked by this choice: still nowadays, notwistanding his sport successes, he defines himself as a “loser”. We will tell the history of a out of line man and athlete, and that of his town and mountains. We’ll follow him during his preparation trainings for his next (and maybe last) race: the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, the hardest in Europe.

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Rating: Not yet rated | Added: 08-09-2008 | By: paolocasalis
Channels: Indie  Documentary  
Tags: documentary,  sport,  runnning,  marathon,  ultratrail,  marco  olmo