Are, Sweden – Four-time overall World Cup alpine ski racing champion Lindsey Vonn was in the hunt to add to her 1,808 point total in Saturday’s World Cup slalom in Are, Sweden, but skied out a few gates from the finish as friend Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany took the win. Solvakia’s Veronika Zuzulova finished in … Continue reading Vonn Skis Out as Hoefl-Riesch Wins Slalom in Are
La Molina, Spain – Patrizia Kummer of Switzerland, and Austria’s Andreas Prommegger have won Saturday’s parallel Snowboard World Cup races in La Molina, giving each a comfortable lead in the Parallel World Cup ranking before entering the season’s final parallel giant slalom in Valmalenco, Italy this Saturday. Kummer, the 2009 PGS World Championships Bronze medalist, … Continue reading Kummer and Prommegger Win PGS in La Molina
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 the … Continue reading Canadian Ski Cross Athlete Nic Zoricic Dies in World Cup Crash in Switzerland
Stratton Mountain, VT – After an exciting day of slopestyle finals on Friday at the 6Star Burton US Open at Stratton Mountain, Quebec’s Sebastien Toutant and Californian Jamie Anderson have been officially crowned the 2012 TTR Slopestyle World Tour Champions. These two riders have been competing on the TTR Tour at slopestyle events around the … Continue reading Toutant and Anderson Receive 2012 TTR Slopestyle World Tour Champion Titles
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 in … Continue reading U.S. Snowboarding Junior Worlds Team Named
Keystone, CO – It’s been a rough winter at Keystone, as the Colorado ski and snowboard resort logged its fifth fatality in little more than a month on Friday. Truitt Hunter, 23, of Castle Rock, Colo., reportedly caught an edge and veered into a tree alongside Keystone’s intermediate Spring Dipper trail on Friday afternoon. He … Continue reading Another Skier Death at Keystone
Park City, UT – X Games silver medalist Devin Logan, World Cup skicross standout Brant Crossan and Youth Olympic Games skicross athlete Lesley Wilson headline a group of 11 athletes named to the 2012 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships Team for U.S. Freeskiing. The Junior Worlds take place March 20–25 in Valmalenco, Italy. Logan has … Continue reading U.S. Names Junior Worlds Freeskiing Team
