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No. 100 will have to wait for Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin will miss Sunday's slalom in Killington, Vermont, after a hard crash during the second run of the giant slalom on Saturday.
Mikaela Shiffrin avoided serious injury Friday when she crashed into the safety nets during a World Cup downhill run on the course that will also host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Search-and-rescue teams brought 23 skiers and snowboarders who got lost in the Vermont backcountry to safety Saturday amid single-digit temperatures, authorities said.
The course has hosted the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup since 2016, replacing Aspen, Colorado, as the early season U.S. venue for women's slalom and giant slalom events. [1] This was the first World Cup event in the northeast since 1991 at Waterville Valley, New Hampshire; and the first in Vermont since 1978 at Stratton Mountain. [2]
Killington Mountain Resort & Ski Area is a ski resort in Rutland County, Vermont, United States, near the town of Killington.It is the largest ski area in the eastern U.S., and has the largest vertical drop in New England at 3,050 feet (930 meters).
American International Airways Flight 808 was a cargo flight operated by American International Airways (now Kalitta Air) that crashed on August 18, 1993 while attempting to land at Leeward Point Field at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. All three crew members on board survived with serious injuries.
August 2 – Cessna 501, N15NY. Thurman Munson, catcher for the New York Yankees, died in a crash of his personal jet while practicing touch-and-go landings at Akron-Canton Regional Airport. August 24 – A Stearman biplane, aircraft registration number N48784, [13] [14] flew into electrical transmission lines that cross Lake Natoma at ...
2 July – Polar Airlines Mil Mi-8 RA-22657 crashes near Deputatsky, Russia. Twenty-four of the 28 people on board are killed. 23 August – A CHC Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma Mk 2 crashes into the sea 2 nm from Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands, Scotland while en route from Borgsten Dolphin oil platform. The accident kills four of the passengers ...