Penticton (BC), Canada – Olivier Rochon, the 2012 FIS World Cup Freestyle Crystal Globe Winner and Canadian Olympic medal hopeful in aerials skiing has torn the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee and ended his season. Rochon and his teammates who are training at Apex Mountain Resort near Penticton, British Columbia went for … Continue reading Canada’s Rochon Tears ACL
Avon, CO – Ted Ligety and Bode Miller produced a riveting one-two giant slalom finish for the U.S. Ski Team on Sunday to close the Audi Birds of Prey World Cup race week in Beaver Creek. It was the first time two Americans have shared the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom podium since … Continue reading Ligety and Miller Go One-Two in Beaver Creek
Lake Louise (AB), Canada – Continuing her recovery from a knee injury, four-time World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn skied confidently into the top five in the Lake Louise super G on Sunday in a race won by Switzerland’s Lara Gut. With Gut’s third World Cup victory this season, she vaulted back into first place in … Continue reading Vonn Cracks Top 5 as Lara Gut Re-takes World Cup Lead
Montafon, Austria – Seven-time X Games gold medalist Lindsey Jacobellis teamed up with Olympian Callan Chythlook-Sifsof to mount a joint comeback, taking second in the women’s team World Cup in Montafon on Sunday behind Italians Raffaella Brutto and Michela Moioli, while Germany won for the men. This was the first weekend back from injury for … Continue reading USA Second in Montafon World Cup Team SBX
Kananaskis Valley (AB), Canada – Canada’s ski cross team got its 2013-14 World Cup season off to a hot start in freezing conditions on Saturday as Marielle Thompson won the women’s final and Brady Leman finished third behind Jonas Devouassoux of France and Switzerland’s Armin Neiderer in the men’s race in Nakiska Ski Area in … Continue reading Canada’s Thompson Wins Nakiska Ski Cross World Cup
Lake Louise (AB), Canada – Temperatures dipped to -40 — the point where the Fahrenheit scale meets Celsius – in Banff National Park on Saturday morning to plunge World Cup racers into the deep freeze for the second of two women’s downhills in Lake Louise won by Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany. Unlike Friday, resort officials … Continue reading Hoefl-Riesch Goes Two for Two in Lake Louise
Avon, CO – Super G World Champion Ted Ligety found his speed in the Audi Birds of Prey super G on Saturday finishing fifth, just one tenth of a second from the podium, in front of a roaring Beaver Creek crowd as Patrick Kueng of Switzerland celebrated the surprise win. “It was close,” a disappointed … Continue reading Late Starters Shuffle Birds of Prey Super G Podium
