ASPEN, CO (Nov 30) - Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) had a fast morning at the Nature Valley Aspen Winternational, winning the first run. But she overskied the second run and dropped to fifth. Nicole Hosp of Austria took the win, improving from seventh place after the first run. Shiffrin remained second in the overall Audi FIS Ski World Cup standings, and is eighth in slalom after two races.
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VAL D'ISERE, France (Dec. 21, 2014) - Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) capped the speed weekend in Val d'Isere finishing sixth in an Audi FIS Ski World Cup super G. Austria's Elisabeth Goergl took the win, while Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) saw her hopes of matching the all-time win record dashed when she crashed near the top of the course. Four Americans cracked into the points.
ASPEN, CO (Nov. 26) - Olympic champion Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CO) broke a seven-year jinx, taking the number three podium spot with two brilliant GS runs at the Nature Valley Aspen Winternational. Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) battled back from a tough first run (21st) to finish 12th. It was the first U.S. podium in Aspen since Kristina Koznick was third in a slalom in November, 2004 and the first U.S. women's GS podium since Tamara McKinney's win in 1981. Defending World Cup GS champ Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany survived a near crash on the first run to comeback for the win.
The anticipation is real at Copper Mountain, Colo. right now. No more mounds of snow, no more snowcats diligently working to craft a beautiful superpipe for World Cup competition. Some athletes, like 2018 Junior World Champion and U.S. Snowboard Pro Team’s own Toby Miller, even chose to leave fresh snow in Lake Tahoe to take advantage of the pristine Copper pipe.
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Thursday’s Today Show was jam packed with U.S. skiers and snowboarders, with NBC firing up its primetime programming the night before Friday’s Opening Ceremony in Sochi. The 2014 Olympic Winter Games have arrived! Women's moguls qualifications and men's and women’s slopestyle snowboarding qualifications were a tremendous success for U.S. athletes with more action packed days to follow.
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It’s another exciting weekend of alpine ski racing, with the final stop of the FIS Ski Alpine World Cup circuit North American tour landing in Lake Louise and Beaver Creek.
As we were heading to visit her reindeer from 2013, aptly named “Rudolph,” two-time Olympic champion, five-time World Champion and reigning overall, super-G, giant slalom, and slalom World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin says, “For the first time in what seems like years, Levi feels like a winter wonderland. There’s SO much snow.” At that very moment, Laplanders zoomed by on a cross-country trail to our right - making it seem like a normal mode of transport here in Levi, Finland (actually, it kind of is).
SOELDEN, Austria (Oct. 25, 2015)—In front of a packed crowd, Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) reminded ski racing fans of his giant slalom skills at the opening Audi FIS Ski World Cup race, taking his fourth win in Soelden, Austria. It was a stacked podium, with Thomas Fanara of France and Marcel Hirscher of Austria finishing under two-tenths behind Ligety, in second and third place respectively.