Calgary (AB), Canada – Vermont’s mogul queen, Hannah Kearney, edged out Canadian sisters Chloé and Justine Dufour-Lapointe on their home turf to earn her 43rd World Cup victory on Saturday at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. Canadian men, however, successfully achieved victory at home as Quebec’s Mikael Kingsbury and Simon Pouliot-Cavanagh skied to first and second place finishes, … Continue reading Kearney, Kingsbury Win in Calgary
Lake Placid, NY – The world’s best freestyle skiers return to Lake Placid and nearby Wilmington, N.Y. at the end of this month to compete in the FIS Putnam Freestyle World Cup. Action will take place at both the Olympic Jumping Complex and Whiteface Mountain ski area. The jumping complex will host the men and women’s aerials competitions, … Continue reading Freestyle World Cup Skiing Returns to Lake Placid
Zagreb, Croatia – Colorado’s Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated the New Year in style on Sunday, winning her second straight Audi FIS Ski World Cup slalom in Zagreb and laying claim for the second time to the Snow Queen Trophy. Shiffrin won in dominating style, leading the first run by .80 and expanding that lead in the second … Continue reading Shiffrin Again Crowned Snow Queen
Park City, UT – Utah’s Deer Valley Resort will once once again host the 2015 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, January 7 through January 10. Aerials and mogul competitors from around the world will challenge each other and themselves on Deer Valley’s 2002 Olympic runs. All events are free to the public to spectate. “FIS Freestyle Ski … Continue reading Utah’s Deer Valley to Host Freestyle World Cup Next Week
Calgary (AB), Canada – There will be no shortage of exciting freestyle skiing competition to watch when the FIS World Cup stops at Calgary’s Olympic Park for its annual moguls event this Saturday. A total of 19 Canadians will be competing (10 men and nine women). Leading the way for the men will be Mikael Kingsbury, of Deux-Montagnes, … Continue reading Kingsbury and Dufour-Lapointe Ready to Defend Mogul Titles in Calgary
Santa Caterina, Italy – Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong took advantage of a new course for the men’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup tour and punched through for his career first victory, winning the Santa Caterina downhill on Sunday. Austria’s Matthias Mayer was the only one who got close to Ganong, finishing nine-hundredths back. Italy’s Dominick Paris … Continue reading Ganong Notches Career First World Cup Win
Kuehtai in Tirol, Austria – A day after returning to the World Cup podium on Sunday with a third place in giant slalom, Mikaela Shiffrin, of Eagle, Colo., skied two nearly perfect runs today and never gave up first place as she stood atop the slalom podium in Austria. It was Shiffrin’s first slalom victory of … Continue reading Shiffrin Returns to Winning Ways
