Kananaskis Valley (AB), Canada -The first Canadian to win an individual ski cross Crystal Globe as overall World Cup champion is hoping to end her incredible year the same way it started – by winning the women’s title at the national championships. Marielle Thompson, of Whistler, British Columbia, arrives at Nakiska Ski Area in...
London (ON), Canada - Canadian World Cup slalom specialist Brad Spence is determined to complete some unfinished business after going under the knife to fix a nagging knee complaint that had started to slow down the 2010 Olympian. The 27-year-old from Calgary, Alberta, battled through chronic knee pain to put together a 2011-12 season...
Annecy, France - Swiss World Cup ski racer Didier Défago has extended his contract with Rossignol Group up to the Sochi Olympic Games in 2014. A Rossignol skier for eight years now and running, the 2010 Olympic Downhill Champion will race in Rossignol skis and bindings and Lange boots for two more seasons. "The...
Vail, CO - Officials at Colorado's Vail Mountain ski resort on Wednesday announced details of a homecoming celebration planned for this Sunday for Olympic and World Alpine ski champion Lindsey Vonn, to commemorate her record-setting World Cup season. “It’s been a truly incredible season and I can’t wait to get back to Vail and...
Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupré (QC), Canada -Canada’s Anna Goodman wrote the final chapter of her ski racing career in her own unique style on Sunday, claiming her first Canadian Championships podium in her last race with the national team before taking part in a ceremonial farewell run down the course – dressed in a banana costume. Goodman,...
Lincoln, NH - New England Disabled Sports (NEDS) has announced that founding member Dr. Robert A. Harney was recently inducted in the National Disabled Ski Hall of Fame. To bestow this honor, the Executive Director of Disabled Sports USA, , Kirk Bauer, JD, made the induction presentation. Dr. Harney, an orthopedic surgeon based in...
Jackson Hole, WY - A 24-year-old woman is reportedly in a coma after falling several hundred feet down a chute while skiing in the Teton Mountains adjacent to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) on Saturday. Sally Francklyn, a public relations account executive with Denny, Ink. in Jackson Hole, was skiing the Once Is Enough...
Stockholm, Sweden - Two veterans of the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup ski racing circuit separately on Monday announced their retirement for related, yet very different reasons. Sweden's Anja Paerson, a gold medal veteran of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games and seven-time World Champion in all five disciplines who has five other Olympic medals...
Grindelwald, Switzerland - Fans and the World Cup community are mourning the loss of Nic Zoricic, who died in a finish line crash during a World Cup ski cross competition on Saturday in Grindelwald. Zoricic, 29, of Toronto, Ontario, began his career in alpine ski racing but transferred to ski cross. He crashed in...
Park City, UT - Youth Olympic Games halfpipe gold medalist Ben Ferguson, silver medalist Arielle Gold and Sprint U.S. Grand Prix slopestyle silver medalist Indigo Monk headline a group of 25 athletes named on Friday to the 2012 FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships Team for U.S. Snowboarding. The Junior Worlds take place March 24–31...
