It was February 1st, 2020—an unusually warm day in Alpe Cimbra, Trentino, Italy, home of the official European training base for the Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski Team. Olympic and World Champion and FIS Ski World Cup overall leader Mikaela Shiffrin was there to begin a training block, but she was also there to achieve yet another career-first: become the first Olympic athlete in this sport era to receive a solo Sports Illustrated cover outside of an Olympic year.
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From the mountains to the halfpipe to the ice rinks, U.S. athletes will be competing in everything from sports with decades of history to sports that are just beginning to make history of their own. There will be athletes seeking to earn their first trip to the podium and athletes who are hoping to return there. There are the athletes who have become household names and several others who will become them.
Momentum is an important ally! Saturday’s two medals will go a long way in motivating other Team USA athletes in the coming days. What a great way to open the Games with gold for Sage Kotsenburg. Sage is the perfect ambassador for the new sport of slopestyle - growing up riding rails and hucking himself off huge features. While a bronze medal was a heartbreak for Hannah Kearney and she fought through tears at an emotional press conference, she proudly acknowledged her place now as a two–time Olympic medalist.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced today its nominations for the U.S. Olympic Freeski Team that will represent Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Nominations are to be confirmed by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee when it formally announces the U.S. Olympic Team.
Attention has shifted from the HomeLight Killington Cup over to speed week at the Xfinity Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek, and the anticipation is high for three days of racing, including Friday’s super-G, Saturday’s downhill, and Sunday’s giant slalom.
Thirty-six U.S. athletes will compete in the International Ski Federation's (FIS) Junior Nordic World Ski Championships and U23 Cross Country World Championships Jan. 28-Feb. 3 in Goms and Kandersteg, Switzerland.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced the 2019-20 U.S. Snowboard Team today, featuring seven Olympic medalists, including snowboardcross athletes Lindsey Jacobellis and Alex Deibold, slopestyle athletes Red Gerard, Kyle Mack, and Jamie Anderson, as well as halfpipe athletes Arielle Gold and Chloe Kim. Kim has elected to not compete this season in order to attend the prestigious Princeton University, but will remain a member of the U.S. Snowboard Team throughout her hiatus.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard officially announces the 56 athletes who have accepted their nomination for the 2025-26 Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team in the halfpipe, slopestyle and snowboard cross disciplines. The athletes named to the team qualified based on predetermined selection criteria.
Hydro Flask U.S. Snowboard Team Halfpipe Team
From February 1-10, approximately 1,400 athletes from 40 countries will converge on Utah to compete in the 2019 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships, presented by Toyota—the biggest winter sports event to be held in Utah since the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Contests held as part of this elite event will include snowboard and skicross; freeski and snowboard big air, slopestyle and halfpipe; snowboard parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom; and freestyle moguls, dual moguls and aerials.