Reporting From Stifel Palisades Tahoe Cup – Day One Highlights and Photo Tour After six years, the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup returns to Olympic Valley. In March 2017, Palisades Tahoe hosted Women’s Slalom and Giant Slalom World Cup events. This year men are racing on that same race course. The race course covers Dog Leg and Red Dog Face sections accessible from the Red Dog chair lift, with the steepness of some […] Claire Weiss | February 25, 2023 0 Comments
U.S. Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Giant-Slalom World Championship in Courchevel and Méribél, France U.S. race skier Mikaela Shiffrin won Gold at the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel and Méribél, France, in Giant-Slalom. It is the American’s first-ever World Championship victory in Giant Slalom, after placing second in 2017 and 2021 and third in 2019. Shiffrin came into today’s race as the favorite, as she is currently the 22/23  World Cup leader in Giant-Slalom […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | February 16, 2023 0 Comments
Mikaela Does It Again — US Ski Racer Wins GS Event in Austria Mikaela Shiffrin returned from her brief Christmas break, spent with her boyfriend, Norwegian ski racer Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, to win the FIS Alpine World Cup GS race in Semmering, Austria. The FIS races in Semmering consist of three events this year, the race today having been added to the calendar to make up for the lost GS event from Sölden, […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | December 28, 2022 0 Comments
Unseasonably Warm Temperatures Put First-Ever FIS World Cup Cross-Border Race in Switzerland and Italy At Risk The world’s first-ever cross-border FIS World Cup is currently at risk as Europe has been having an unseasonably warm fall, making snowmaking at lower altitudes impossible. During the first ‘snow control’ last weekend, the green light for the race start could not yet be given by the International Ski Federation ‘FIS’. Related: First-Ever Cross-Border FIS World Cup Race To Be […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 18, 2022 1 Comment
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Calendar Released for 22/23 – Men’s Events The full FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Calendar for 22/23 has been released. There will be a total of 43 men’s races in 21 different resorts. Last week, members of the International Ski Federation (FIS) met in Brides-les-Bains in Savoie, France, to inspect the venue for the World Ski Championships (WSC) in February 2023. Related: FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 14, 2022 3 Comments
[OLYMPICS] Mikaela Shiffrin Out of Olympic Giant Slalom After First Run Two-Time Olympic Gold Medallist Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic Giant Slalom campaign in Beijing was over as quickly as it began. The 26-year-old superstar from Colorado seemed to be on impeccable form in the leadup to the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, with Giant Slalom World Cup wins in Soelden, Austria, and Courchevel, France earlier this season. Shiffrin started the Beijing Giant Slalom […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 7, 2022 0 Comments
Athlete Spotlight: African Nation Eritrea’s First Winter Olympian Back For Round Two in Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games are foremost an arena for the best of the best to compete in a prestigious competition. Austria, France and Switzerland are the obvious frontrunners in terms of medal winnings in Alpine Skiing at the Olympic Winter Games, with Austria winning 121 Alpine Skiing medals since the races were first introduced to the Olympics at the 1936 Olympiad […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | February 2, 2022 2 Comments
Race Report: Sara Hector Reigns Victorious in Exciting Kranjska Gora World Cup Giant Slalom The small Slovenian town of Kranjska Gora has become a mainstay on the women’s Giant Slalom and Slalom World Cup tour. The small town, near the Italian and Austrian borders, served as the first Giant Slalom World Cup of the new year on January 8th. After struggling through tough snow and weather conditions in the previous slalom World Cup in Zagreb, […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | January 10, 2022 0 Comments