Colorado Springs, CO – The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) has named Park City, Utah’s Ted Ligety as its 2012-13 Olympic SportsMan of the Year, the organization’s highest annual individual athlete honor. Ligety, the first male alpine skier to win the award, will be honored this Tuesday at a ceremony in New York City’s Times Square … Continue reading Ligety Honored as Olympic SportsMan of the Year
Breckenridge, CO – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association has announced a unique partnership with Alli Sports, a division of the NBC Sports Group, to sanction its Dec. 12-15 Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships at Breckenridge, Colo., as a USSA event. The event, along with the four-stop Sprint U.S. Grand Prix will determine the athletes … Continue reading Dew Tour Added as Fifth 2014 Olympic Selection Event for Freeskiing and Snowboarding
Methven, New Zealand – Mt. Hutt ski area in New Zealand’s Canterbury region is set to host an elite freestyle training camp for Olympic athletes. The ski area has been chosen to host the training camp that will begin in early October and will run past the end of the public ski season until mid-November. … Continue reading Mt. Hutt to Host International Olympic Freestyle Training Camp
Sochi, Russia – Colorado’s Torin Yater-Wallace and Gus Kenworthy battled through fog and rain on Saturday to go one-two for U.S. Freeskiing in the pre-Olympic test event of the halfpipe at Rosa Khutor outside Sochi. It was the first opportunity for the top athletes in the Olympics’ newest event to visit Sochi and test the … Continue reading USA 1-2 in Olympic Halfpipe
Sochi, Russia – After wreaking havoc on parallel giant slalom (PGS) and halfpipe competitions this week, extremely warm temperatures have forced FIS to cancel the season’s third FIS Snowboard World Cup parallel slalom which was scheduled in the “Extreme Park” 2014 Sochi Olympic venue at Rosa Khutor today. Although local organizers were able to run … Continue reading Warm Weather Scuttles Olympic Parallel Slalom Test Event in Sochi
Sochi, Russia – Olympic champion Kelly Clark, of W. Dover, Vt., took a dominating win under the lights at a challenging Olympic test event in the Sochi halfpipe on Thursday evening. Japan’s Taku Hiraoku won for the men. It was the first World Cup in the Sochi halfpipe at Rosa Khutor near Krasnaya Polyana in … Continue reading Clark and Hiraoka Win in Sochi Olympic Halfpipe
Sochi, Russia – Austrian riders Marion Kreiner and Andreas Prommegger (AUT) on Thursday won the Olympic parallel giant slalom test which was staged in Sochi. By winning the season’s third FIS Snowboard World Cup in the “Extreme Park” Rosa Khutor, the two race boarders earned their home country its first double win since the PGS … Continue reading Austrian Snowboarders Sweep Olympic PGS Rehearsal in Sochi
