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NEW YORK CITY (Oct. 29) – International Ski Federation Secretary General Sarah Lewis joined U.S. ski racing officials for a New York City press conference to kick off the World Championship ski season in America. The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships will be held in Vail/Beaver Creek Feb. 2-15. Lewis joined U.S. Ski Team Olympic medalists Mikaela Shiffrin, Julia Mancuso and Andrew Weibrecht, citing the World Championships as an opportunity to showcase the sport in America with a strong U.S.
After nearly a week of training action swings into top gear Thursday with slopestyle snowboarding and women's moguls qualification rounds. Hannah Kearney will take the first step towards defending her 2010 gold medal while in slopestyle snowboarding, Shaun White withdraw Wednesday to focus his attention on a third halfpipe Olympic gold. Veteran Todd Lodwick was honored by his Olympian peers, being named as flag bearer for Team USA as he enters an unprecedented sixth Olympics.
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SQUAW VALLEY, CA (March 23) - Triple World Champion Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) capped a career best season Saturday with massive 1.48 second wire-to-wire slalom victory to close men's competition at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships in Squaw Valley. A week ago, Ligety won the final Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom of the season to add to his record season that resulted in a fourth World Cup giant slalom title. It was his seventh U.S.
Winter4Kids Partners with U.S. Ski & Snowboard to Host NorAm Parallel Event with $75,000 Prize Purse
Winter4Kids at the National Winter Activity Center, the nation’s first and only fully dedicated youth winter sports facility, announced today a partnership with U.S. Ski & Snowboard and the International Federation of Skiing (FIS) to host the first ever NorAm Cup parallel event in the United States.
SCHLADMING, Austria (March 14) – Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) charged the sun-softened Schladming downhill to win the 53rd Audi FIS Alpine World Cup of her career and edge closer to toppling Austrian Hermann Maier's single season record of 2,000 points that has stood for the last 12 years. With the victory, Vonn sits at 1,908 points also notched her 12th win of the season surpassing the American record she set in 2009.
The temperatures are dropping, snow guns are revving their engines and it’s almost time for the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain to open its doors to the best alpine ski racers in the country.
U.S. Snowboard Team athletes will compete in the first FIS World Cup big air event of the season this week in Cardrona, New Zealand Aug 23-24.
U.S. Pro Team riders Chris Corning (Silverthorne, Colo.), Luke Winkelmann (Blowing Rock, N.C.), Lyon Farrell (Haiku, Hawaii), Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.), and American Storm Rowe (Jamaica, Vt.) are all scheduled to compete.
KVITFJELL, Norway (March 2) - Olympic super G silver medalist Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, NY) needed a solid Audi FIS Alpine World Cup result Sunday and he got one, finishing a World Cup career-best seventh in the last super G before the World Cup Finals. The result locked a start in the discipline at the March 13 race in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, where only the top 25 athletes in each discipline can start. Sochi super G bronze medalist Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) finished 12th, behind Olympic champion Kjetil Jansrud of Norway, who won his second race in three days.
SOCHI, Russia (Feb. 11) - With Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the crowd, Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) rode a razor sharp line to finish fourth by a mere two hundredths of a second in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup test of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games downhill. Miller carried the green leader light through the first two timing intervals before his skis hooked up on the middle of the course forcing him to dump speed coming into the jump section.