[UPDATED] Lindsey Vonn vs Mikaela Shiffrin: Who Is The Best Female Ski Racer? *Originally published in March 2020. Updated Jan 10, 2023. Two of the biggest names in ski racing history, Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin are constantly compared to see who really is the best female ski racer of the 21st century. In the light of Lindsey Vonn’s retirement a year ago, today we’re comparing their careers to decide once and for […] Industry News Lucy Ferneyhough | January 10, 2023 15 Comments
FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Calendar Released for 22/23 – Women’s Events The full FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Calendar for winter 22/23 has been released. There will be a total of 42 women’s races in 21 different resorts. Below is the calendar for the women’s season 22/23 in Alpine ski racing. Related: FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup Calendar Released for 22/23 – Men’s Events The women have the honor of kicking […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 14, 2022 0 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
Veteran Olympian Steven Nyman Cut From US Olympic Downhill Team The Olympics are here, and rosters are being finalized. Competition for a spot on the 2022 Olympic team was especially high this year. The team consists of 11 women and six men. It’s the lowest number of men on the team since 1984! Steven Nyman, a veteran Olympian, is one of many names missing from the 2022 Olympic Downhill Ski Team. The […] Olympics Aunika Skogen | February 4, 2022 2 Comments
Race Roundup: US Ski Team Ends 2021 Strong With Wins from Bennett & Shiffrin With the short Christmas break approaching, the last set of FIS Alpine World Cup races provided a grueling schedule. With nine races over ten days between the Men and Women’s series, the US Ski Team had highlights in the December 18th Men’s Downhill in Val Gardena, Italy, and the December 21st Women’s Giant Slalom in Courchevel. Val Gardena is a […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | December 21, 2021 2 Comments
Electric Atmosphere at Killington Resort, VT, Cheers Mikaela Shiffrin to Her 5th Victory at the HomeLight Killington Cup Thanksgiving Weekend More than $450,000 raised for the Killington World Cup Foundation as thousands of spectators cheered on the world’s top women ski racers at the 2021 HomeLight Killington Cup Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America and part of POWDR – an adventure lifestyle company, hosted the Audi FIS Ski Women’s World Cup over Thanksgiving […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 3, 2021 1 Comment
Race Report: Slokar, Stjenersund Take Advantage of Shiffrin Absence in Lech / Zuers, Austria The first (and only) Women’s Parallel Giant-Slalom World Cup took place in brutal, blizzard-like conditions on November 13th. The second of seven Austrian alpine World Cup stops, Lech / Zuers (near St. Anton) challenged the 46 athletes to a 19 gate course over a 102m (335ft) vertical pitch. Despite World Cup overall points being on the line, American star Mikaela […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | November 15, 2021 0 Comments
How Your Favorite Ski Race Athletes Stack Up After the Season Opener in Soelden, Austria The summer has come to an end and the FIS World Cup season has kicked off where it has for the last 14 years; the treacherous, up to 65% inclined pitch of Soelden, Austria. Now rejoined with the sound of spectators, the best alpine skiers in the world competed under a blue sky with the Women competing on October 23rd […] Olympics Phil Tremblay | November 9, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Mikaela Shiffrin Writes and Performs Song as a Message to Everyone We are witnessing incredible acts of kindness and selflessness every day. The doctors and nurses helping the ill, and continuing to help the millions who have sickness and injuries not even related to this specific virus. The thousands of retired health professionals who have volunteered their services to aid the hospitals strained in space and resources. Those testing and developing […] SnowBrains | March 26, 2020 1 Comment
Mikaela Shiffrin Shares the Secrets to Her Success | No Caffeine, No Alcohol, Lots of Sleep, and Sharp Focus Mikaela Shiffrin, the best slalom skier in the world right now, is the first skier, male or female, to make $1 million in prize money from a single season. Also the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history and the youngest skier to win 50 World Cup races, is there anything she does that gives her the competitive edge over her […] Industry News SnowBrains | January 30, 2020 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin Finished Third in World Cup Slalom in Flachau, Austria Yesterday Mikaela Shiffrin lost to Slovakian Petra Vlhova for the second straight World Cup slalom race, at Flachau in Austria yesterday. It is the first time in over five years that Shiffrin has failed to win in successive slalom races Shiffrin finished third overall, 0.43-seconds slower than first placed Vlhova. Sweden’s Anna Swenn-Larsson was second, by only 0.10-seconds. Vlhova claimed her seventh World […] Industry News SnowBrains | January 15, 2020 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin and Adidas Announce Multi-Year Partnership Adidas aren’t a company known for their winter sports gear, but that hasn’t stopped them from signing a multiyear partnership with leading alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin. The 24-year-old Colorado native is one of the world’s leading athletes, with a record-breaking 17 World Cup wins in last season – something no man or woman has ever achieved in one season before. Related: […] Industry News SnowBrains | August 14, 2019 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin Claims 3rd Consecutive World Cup Title Without Even Skiing a Run For the third straight year, Mikaela Shiffrin has secured the FIS Ski World Cup overall title, and she secured it while taking time off from the World Cup circuit, to rest, recharge and train in both Italy and the Czech Republic – rather than traveling to Sochi, Russia, which has struggled with cancellations the last four days, reports US Ski […] Industry News SnowBrains | March 4, 2019 0 Comments
Exhausted Mikaela Shiffrin Pulls Out of Next Two World Cup Events A worn out and under-the-weather Shiffrin will temporarily apply the brakes on her splendid season in order to take a much-needed breather, reports AP Sports. And the way she’s racing, that’s almost got to be a sigh of relief for the rest of the field, her absence will be a chance for other names to appear on top of a […] Industry News SnowBrains | February 22, 2019 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin Claims her 53rd World Cup Victory in Kronplatz, Italy [arve url="https://youtu.be/Xol-mufpPJg"] SnowBrains | January 16, 2019 703 Likes 2 Tweets 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin is Winningest Female World Cup Slalom Skier Ever Mikaela Shiffrin, 23 finished the best year of her career by breaking yet another record, overtaking one of her childhood heroes to become the most successful female slalom skier in World Cup history. In the final race of 2018, she added her 36th slalom victory, having previously shared the record with Austria’s Marlies Raich (Schild), who won 35 times before retiring […] Industry News SnowBrains | January 3, 2019 0 Comments
BOOM! Mikaela Shiffrin Made it 49 World Cup Wins Today 23-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the giant slalom today for her 4th successive win and 49th career World Cup victory as she continued her march to a third straight season-long overall title, reports ESPN. You might also like: Unstoppable Mikaela Shiffrin Claims World Cup Victories 47 and 48 Shiffrin became the youngest female skier to reach 49 World Cup wins and she […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 21, 2018 0 Comments
Unstoppable Mikaela Shiffrin Claims World Cup Victories 47 and 48 The unstoppable Mikaela Shiffrin powered her way to World Cup victories 47 and 48 over the weekend in St. Moritz, Switzerland. She followed up her career-first Audi FIS Ski World Cup super-G win in Lake Louise with a second one less than a week later on Saturday, then she fired up victory number 48 in Sunday’s FIS Ski World Cup […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 10, 2018 1 Comment
Mikaela Shiffrin Claims 34th World Cup Slalom Win | Needs One More to Equal Women’s All-Time Record Mikaela Shiffrin completed a hat-trick of Killington Cup slalom wins on Sunday to delight a passionate home crowd in Vermont. Having just missed out on the podium in Saturday’s giant slalom, Shiffrin responded magnificently with a near-flawless second run to secure victory by over half a second from Petra Vlhova of Slovakia. Killington in Vermont has adopted Shiffrin as one […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 26, 2018 0 Comments
Mikaela Shiffrin Begins her World Cup Defence with a Dominating Slalom Victory in Finland [arve url="https://youtu.be/p0Py38jemWc"] SnowBrains | November 21, 2018 63 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
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