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Lindsey Vonn now has a firm target for her return to World Cup ski racing at age 40: next weekend for a pair of super-G events in St. Moritz, Switzerland. “You know me well enough to know that ...
The men's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of nine events, including the finals. Two-time discipline champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway, who failed to win last season because he suffered life-threatening injuries on the Lauberhorn downhill course in January 2024, developed a shoulder infection at the surgical site over the summer and needed a ...
The men's downhill in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events. The season had been planned with thirteen downhills, but two scheduled downhills on 11/12 November 2023 on the Matterhorn, running from Switzerland into Italy (), were canceled for the second straight year, this time due to heavy snowfall and high winds (unlike the year before, when the cancellation was due ...
ST MORITZ, Switzerland (Reuters) -American Mikaela Shiffrin claimed a record-extending 91st alpine skiing World Cup victory when she won the downhill at St. Moritz on Saturday. The twice Olympic ...
The women's downhill in the 2025 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup is scheduled to consist of eight events, including the final. [1] After the elimination of the two downhills scheduled in November on the "Gran Becca" course on the Matterhorn from the 2025 schedule, the first race of the season in this discipline is now scheduled to take place on 14 December in Beaver Creek, Colorado, United States.
Three generations of women's speed racers, from 21-year-old Blanc to 40-year-old Vonn, and first-time winner Macuga, are challenging established stars like 2018 Olympic downhill champion Goggia, Gut-Behrami and Brignone, who now leads the overall World Cup standings. A downhill is scheduled Saturday and a super-G on Sunday.
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.
Slovenia's Andrej Šporn at the 2010 Winter Olympics downhill in a typical downhill body position. Downhill is a form of alpine skiing competition. Whereas the other alpine skiing events (slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, and combined) emphasize turning and technique, downhill emphasizes "the six components of technique, courage, speed, risk, physical condition and judgement ...