Park City, UT – American ski racer of Park City announced on Monday that he will have surgery on his back, which will cause him to miss the rest of the 2016-17 World Cup ski season. The two-time Olympic gold medalist will instead focus on the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, intending to come back strong as … Continue reading Ligety to Undergo Back Surgery
Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria – Oregon’s Jackie Wiles skied to her first career Audi FIS Ski World Cup podium on Sunday, finishing third in the much anticipated downhill in Altenmarkt. After three days of weather delays, the women ran an early morning downhill training run Sunday, and then headed back to the start for the real deal. The track at … Continue reading Wiles Earns First Career Podium In Altenmarkt Downhill
Wengen, Switzerland – Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen battled a tough weekend of weather to win Sunday’s classic Wengen World Cup slalom over Marcel Hirscher. Felix Neureuther of Germany was third. Kristoffersen also won last year’s slalom in Wengen, but due to lack of snow last year’s slalom course was set on the downhill track, which has a complete … Continue reading Kristoffersen Wins Wengen Slalom
Waitsfield, VT – Green Mountain Valley School (GMVS) in Vermont’s Mad River Valley has announced a comprehensive training partnership with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) that designates GMVS as both a U.S. Ski Team Development Site, and as a U.S. Ski Team High Performance Center. The U.S. Ski Team designations are the result of an … Continue reading U.S. Ski Team Partners with Green Mountain Valley School
Wengen, Switzerland – Snow and wind wreaked havoc on Saturday’s scheduled Audi FIS Ski World Cup races, cancelling both the men and women’s downhill races in Switzerland and Altenmarkt- Zauchensee, Austria. The women were scheduled to have both a downhill training run and downhill race Saturday in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, but due to heavy snowfall both had to … Continue reading Weather Cancels World Cup Downhills
Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria – Too much new snowfall on the course forced the cancellation of Thursday’s downhill training run for the World Cup ladies at Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, and a similar fate befell the plan on Friday. Despite workers clearing the course in time for Friday’s training run, heavy snowfall picked up just before the racers’ inspection and continued throughout … Continue reading Snow Scraps Second Zauchensee Training
Wengen, Switzerland – Friday the 13th proved to be more about luck than position at the men’s World Cup Combined in Wengen, as Switzerland’s Niels Hintermann came out of the 51st start position to win his career-first World Cup event in only his 12th start on the World Cup circuit. And the surprises didn’t stop with … Continue reading Surprise Combined Podium in Wengen
