Maribor, Slovenia – After finishing fourth in Saturday’s giant slalom, Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin notched her 24th World Cup slalom victory on Sunday in Maribor, Slovenia. Shiffrin charged to her 12th career top-five giant slalom result on Saturday, finishing fourth in a race won by Tessa Worley of France ahead of Italy’s Sofia Goggia in second and Swiss … Continue reading Shiffrin Leaves Maribor With Another Victory
Lake Placid, NY – FIS Freestyle moguls and aerials athletes return to competition in the new year this week at the Putnam Investments Freestyle Cup in Lake Placid. The moguls competition will take place Friday at Whiteface Mountain Ski Center in nearby Wilmington, while aerial athletes will compete at a night event on Saturday at the Olympic … Continue reading Freestyle World Cup Starts 2017 in Lake Placid
Vail, CO – American ski racing star Lindsey Vonn is back training on snow in Colorado for the first time after suffering a badly fractured upper arm while training at Copper Mountain in Colorado in November. “I’m back on snow!! So happy!!” Vonn tweeted yesterday. “Taking it day by day and I’ll see how I feel.” … Continue reading Vonn Cleared to Ski
Park City, UT – Aspiring ski and snowboard athletes will have expanded opportunities as a result of collaborative partnerships between the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and its leading clubs, academy programs, resorts and sport performance facilities. The USSA has announced a four-level program to provide both regional and training opportunities through co-branding with those programs. … Continue reading USSA Formalizes Training Partnership Programs
Zagreb, Croatia – Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin straddled a gate in tonight’s World Cup night slalom in Zagreb, ending her impressive winning streak in the discipline as the Snow Queen Trophy went to Slovakia’s Veronika Velez Zuzulova, who broke her second-place curse in the Croatian capital despite battling an apparent case of the flu. After finishing in … Continue reading Shiffrin’s Winning Streak Ends in Zagreb
Los Angeles, CA – An announcement by NBCUniversal this month holds the opportunity to bring even more ski and snowboarding content to fans. The International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and NBCUniversal have created a comprehensive Olympic Channel content and distribution partnership for the United States to launch in 2017 prior to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. The … Continue reading NBCUniversal to Launch Domestic Olympic Channel
Sestriere, Italy – The Giovanni Agnelli race course in Sestriere is steeped in history. Named for the founder of Fiat and developer of the resort in the 1930s, this was the piste that sent 21-year- olds Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety on to Olympic gold in 2006. It was here that the legendary Janica Kostelic of … Continue reading Behind the Gold: Becoming a Part of History
