SOLDEU-GRANDVALIRA, Andorra (Feb. 12) - Three-time Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) was hit by gusts of swirling wind, yet powered to eighth in the Soldeu giant slalom. Tessa Worely of France won to overtake the giant slalom points lead as Slovenia's Tina Maze was second to cut Vonn's still sizeable overall lead to 410 points with six weeks remaining in the season.
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CHAMONIX, France (Feb. 3) - Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) came within .01 of victory in the first of two Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhills in Chamonix as Klaus Kroell snagged the first Austrian speed win of the season.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced today a partnership with award-winning non-profit health education innovator TeachAids to provide members cutting-edge concussion education resources as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to athlete health and wellness.
PARK CITY, Utah - U.S. Ski & Snowboard today announced Brandon Gayle as its newest Board Director. Gayle’s experience includes positions across several industries including Facebook, Instagram, Groupon and Bain & Company. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E), the parent company of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs.
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (Jan. 27) - Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) pushed her Audi FIS Alpine World Cup points total to 1,070 with a super combined victory in bluebird St. Moritz. It was Vonn's seventh victory of the season and now leads the overall chase by 302 points over Slovenian Tina Maze, who was second. Vonn has won in every discipline this season except slalom.
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PARK CITY, UT (Nov. 21) – The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, has extended its partnership with ski sock manufacturer SmartWool, for an additional eight years, as its official sock provider. As a part of the partnership SmartWool® PhD® Ski, Nordic and Snowboard socks will don the feet of U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding athletes in alpine, freestyle, nordic and snowboarding sports programs. SmartWool has been a USSA partner since 1996.
Two-time Olympic champion, Land Rover Ambassador and winningest slalom skier of all-time Mikaela Shiffrin recently caught up with Mackenzie Moran from Ski Racing Media, prior to her on-snow camp at Official Training Site Timberline Lodge and Ski Resort in Mt. Hood, Ore. for a profile heading into the 2020-21 FIS Ski World Cup season.
WENGEN, Switzerland (Jan. 16, 2015)—Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) battled the alpine combined—a downhill followed by one run of slalom—to be the top American in Wengen, finishing in fifth place. Downhiller Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT) skied to 15th, his first top 15 on the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup this season. Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the race by 1.31 seconds and Victor Muffat-Jeandet of France was second.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard prides itself in having some of the most elite winter sport athletes in the world. Without the help of top-tier training centers and development clubs, however, the goal of being the best in the world would be nearly impossible for U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes.
Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard destination in Eastern North America and a POWDR resort, announced today that tickets for the 2023 Stifel Killi