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Swiss Skier Lara Gut-Behrami to Retire After 2026 Olympic Season

Two-time overall World Cup champion Lara Gut-Behrami has announced she will be retiring after the 2025-26 Olympic season. The 34-year-old Swiss skier revealed her plans at a sponsor’s event in Zurich this week, confirming that the upcoming Winter Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo will mark her final competitive appearance. Related: The 11 Wealthiest Skiers and Snowboarders in the World Gut-Behrami’s decision […]
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Exciting Super-G World Cup Final in Sun Valley, ID, Sees Lara Gut-Behrami Snatch the Victory & Season Title, While Lindsey Vonn Claims First Comeback Podium

After the cancellation of the Downhill yesterday, today’s Super-G event more than made up in terms of excitement and action. The Super-G World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Sunday, March 23, saw Lara Gut-Behrami claim the victory—and Super-G season title—while Team USA’s Lindsey Vonn claimed her first podium in 2,565 days. Rounding out the podium was Italy’s Federica […]
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Breezy Johnson & Mikaela Shiffrin Win Inaugural Alpine Team Combined at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria

26 teams were at the start today to fight for the glory of winning the inaugural Alpine Team Combined event at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria. Team USA had sent four teams to the start, as did France, Switzerland, and Austria. Italy had sent three teams and Germany two, while the remaining five nations—Slovenia, Norway, Canada, Bosnia and […]
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New Zealand’s Alice Robinson Wins Giant Slalom at Kronplatz, Italy, While USA’s Paula Moltzan Claims 3rd

What an exciting day today, January 21, at Kronplatz, Italy, with unexpected podium winners and some upsets for seasoned skiers. Perched in the heart of the Dolomites, Kronplatz has been a staple on the FIS World Cup circuit since 2017. It has been a premier destination for technical events, particularly Giant Slalom races, and Mikaela Shiffrin holds the record for […]
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Italy Makes it 2-For-2 Victories on Homesoil as Federica Brignone Wins Super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, While Lindsey Vonn’s 400th World Cup Start Ends With a Setback

Federica Brignone delivered a career-defining victory the Sunday’s Super-G on Sunday, January 19, finally taming the storied slopes of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. For years, Cortina d’Ampezzo had eluded Brignone, a venue where the Italian star faced repeated disappointment. While Brignone celebrated a long-awaited triumph, Lindsey Vonn’s return to the iconic venue known as her “Living Room” saw her skid out […]
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FIS Rejects $420 Million Media Investment, Athletes Want FIS to Reconsider

The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) recently received a proposal from CVC Capital Partners on November 30, according to an article by Fast Company. The proposal, titled “Project Snow,” offered an approximately $420 million investment in exchange for a 20% shareholding in the commercial rights to FIS’s snowboarding and skiing. This offer was rejected by the Federation days later in […]
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Fighting Words by Italy’s Federica Brignone: “Shiffrin Avoided the Competition”

The World Cup season may be over, but the drama certainly isn’t. While the overall season trophy, the Big Crystal Globe, went to Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami, second-placed Federica Brignone from Italy seems to still have a battle axe to grind. In an interview with Italian newspaper Repubblica, the Italian skier made some rather surprising allegations against U.S. ski racer Mikaela […]
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Big Crystal Globe for Overall Alpine Performance in 23/24 FIS World Cup Season Goes to Switzerland for Both Men & Women

The Big Crystal Globe which is awarded to the skier with the most points across all alpine disciplines went to Swiss skiers in both the men’s and the women’s division. Marco Odermatt claimed his third consecutive Overall Title and at only 26 years is certainly poised to keep hanging on to the position as overall leader for a few more […]
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Austria’s Cornelia Hütter Snatches 23/24 Season Downhill Crystal Globe from Switzerlands Lara Gut-Behrami in Dramatic World Cup Final in Saalbach, Austria

Lara Gut-Behrami went into the Downhill final on Saturday, March 23, as top-ranked Downhill skier, the Giant Slalom and Super-G Crystal Globe already on the shelf, and the Downhill and Overall Crystal Globe within reach. With 369 points in the season’s rankings and second-ranked Sofia Goggia with 360 points out due to a broken leg, the Downhill Globe looked like […]
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Lara Gut-Behrami Wins FIS Downhill World Cup in Crans-Montana, Switzerland

Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami claimed her fourth consecutive World Cup today, February 16, at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Temperatures in Crans-Montana were fairly warm, causing the finish to be moved up the hill for safety reasons, as the snow down low was too soft. This did not keep Gut-Behrami from claiming her 44th career victory on home soil in only 1:19.11 minutes. Second […]
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Mikaela Shiffrin Will Not Compete at World Cup in Crans-Montana, Switzerland

Mikaela’s media manager Megan Harrod confirmed in an interview with Swiss newspapers that Mikaela Shiffrin will not return to the World Cup next weekend in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Crans-Montana will host a Downhill and a Super-G race on February 17 and 18.  Shiffrin had suffered an external ligament injury in her knee during her dramatic crash in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, at […]
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Lara Gut-Behrami Eclipses Shiffrin & AJ Hurt Claims Podium in Soldeu, Andorra

The small principality of Andorra was hosting the tech women’s World Cup events this weekend. Saturday, February 10, saw the women’s Giant Slalom, and expectations were high on Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami after America’s Mikaela Shiffrin had announced days prior that she would not be competing. Gut-Behrami was less than 100 points behind Shiffrin in the season’s overall standings and a […]
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Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami Wins Giant Slalom World Cup at Kronplatz, Italy

Today, January 30,  saw a stunning day at Kronplatz, Italy, for the Women’s Giant Slalom event. Last year at Kronplatz, Mikaela Shiffrin famously eclipsed Lindsey Vonn for most World Cup victories by a female Alpine skier, but today’s race was going to be held without the American ski racer, as she is still recovering from an injury she sustained at […]
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Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami Wins Women’s FIS World Cup Giant Slalom in Sölden, Austria

The piste on the Rettenbach Glacier was perfectly groomed, fresh snow had fallen, topping up the well prepared race course and painting the surrounding area in a fairytale-winter-white after weeks of unseasonably warm weather. Winter is here, or at least the spirit of it and with it the FIS Alpine World Cup season opener, which was held in in Sölden, […]
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Shiffrin Wins Giant Slalom Event at 2023 FIS World Cup Finals in Soldeu, Andorra, and Smashes More Records

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Sunday, March 19, 2023, saw the last alpine events of the World Cup season, and for the women, this was the Giant Slalom event, while the men had a Slalom race. This year, the FIS World Cup Finals in the alpine disciplines are being held in Soldeu, Andorra, and the weather in Andorra has been warm. The freezing line went across […]
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Super-G Tightly Held in Swiss Hands at 2023 Alpine World Cup Finals in Soldeu, Andorra

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Thursday, March 16, saw the Men’s and Women’s Super-G event and the award for the end-of-season Super-G trophy, the elusive Crystal Globe, for the top-ranked skier in the discipline at the end of the 22/23 World Cup season. Both the World Cup win and the Super-G Crystal Globe went to Switzerland, with Marco Odermatt winning the men’s race and trophy […]
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