Heber, UT – Four-time Olympian Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) made it two wins in a row to open the FIS Nordic Combined Continental Cup ski season Sunday at Soldier Hollow. Lodwick won over countryman Brett Camerota (Park City, UT). Defending Continental Cup champion Marco Pichlmayer of Austria was third.n An 87.0 meter jump put … Continue reading Continental Cup Nordic Combined Skiing: Lodwick Sweeps at Soldier Hollow →

Updated: 9:00 p.m. MST Dec. 14, 2008 Snowbird, UT – An avalanche occurred Sunday in-bounds in the High Baldy sector of Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort, killing a Salt Lake City woman.n Heather Gross, 27, was recovered from the debris at 1:18 p.m. and was transported via helicopter in critical condition to University Hospital at … Continue reading In-Bounds Avalanche Kills One at Utah’s Snowbird Ski Resort →

Copper Mountain, CO – Snowboarding rookie Jaime Anderson (South Lake Tahoe, CA) and Madison Ellsworth (Frisco, CO) took to the slope in a huge way Saturday night, winning the Paul Mitchell Progression Session at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix presented by Sprint at snowy Copper Mountain in Colorado.n The run was kitted out with a … Continue reading U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix: Anderson Aces Copper Progression Session →

Davos, Switzerland – Norway’s Ola Vigen Hattestad and Petra Majdic of Slovenia took their second World Cup sprint victories of the cross country skiing season Sunday in Davos, Switzerland. The U.S. Ski Team’s Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) and Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) both crashed in their quarterfinal heats to each finish the 26th overall.n Newell skied … Continue reading Cross-Country Skiing World Cup: Hattestad, Majdic Win in Davos →

Limone Piemonte, Italy – Mathew Morison of Burketon, Ont., and Jasey Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Que., earned gold and bronze Sunday in the men’s parallel giant slalom races Sunday at a World Cup snowboard competition in Limone Piemonte. Kimiko Zakreski of Calgary took silver in the women’s contest.n U.S. Snowboarding’s Tyler Jewell (Steamboat Springs, CO) … Continue reading World Cup Snowboarding: Gold, Silver, Bronze for Canada →

La Molina, Spain – World Cup slalom leader Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) skied two great slalom runs but still finished second behind Germany’s Maria Riesch, who won both the first and second runs, at the Audi FIS World Cup in La Molina, Spain on Sunday. Riesch built nearly a full second lead on the field … Continue reading World Cup Skiing: Vonn Second to Riesch in Spain →

Kaprun, Austria – One day after winds postponed the finals of the Roxy Chicken Jam 2008 in the Austrian ski resort of Kaprun on Saturday, those same winds canceled the women’s snowboarding competition completely on Sunday.n “Due to the heavy winds at the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier Park, we can’t hold the Roxy Chicken Jam this weekend,” … Continue reading Roxy Chicken Jam Canceled →