By USSA ALTA BADIA, Italy — Four-time World Champion Ted Ligety (Park City) was held to third Sunday in the Alta Badia giant slalom as Austrian Marcel Hirscher captured his second straight giant slalom win. Midway through the eight-event Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom season, Ligety and Hirscher have each won a pair […]
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By USSA COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. -– Rookie rider Taylor Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) led a U.S. sweep Dec. 21 with Greg Bretz (Mammoth Lakes) and Ben Ferguson (Bend, Ore.) in the halfpipe final at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Copper. Gold put down his winning score during the first run of the competition after […]
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By USSA COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. -– Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.) mathematically clinched her spot on the 2014 Olympic halfpipe snowboarding team Saturday with her win at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix at Copper. Clark led a U.S. sweep of the halfpipe finals with Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Gretchen Bleiler […]
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By USSA VAL D’ISERE, France — Slalom World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) finished a solid eighth Sunday in Val d’Isere to close the first half of the women’s Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom season. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein won and posted her sixth World Cup podium of the Olympic winter, adding 100 […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Everything changes with a little snow and some things even get better – like the views from Van Sickle Bi-state Park. While we are familiar with the trail, we were thankful others had gone before us. This way we didn’t completely get lost – just a little sidetracked at the […]
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By USSA LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -– Olympic silver medalist Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, Vt.) made her overdue return to the podium Saturday with her first snowboardcross World Cup victory in nearly two years. Jacobellis has been absent from the sport since January 2012 because of a knee injury. In the men’s race, Alex Deibold (Manchester […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy — Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller (Franconia, N.H.) continued to build speed on the Road to Sochi with a fifth place Saturday in the 46th Saslong Classic downhill in Val Gardena, Italy. After falling behind in the upper gliding portion of the course, Miller found the gas pedal through the […]
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By USSA COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. -– Brita Sigourney (Carmel) gained ground on Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe) in the U.S. Olympic qualification standings after her victory in Friday’s halfpipe final at the Visa U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix Series. Sigourney and Bowman took first and second in the FIS World Cup event with Marie Martinod of […]
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By Laura Dattaro, Weather Channel When it snows in Utah, Tim Garrett likes to watch the storm. He looks outside, watching the blurry mess of white fill the window, the Wasatch Mountains in the background. But he also looks at his computer screen, where he sees a live feed of photographs of tiny, individual snowflakes, […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy — Bode Miller (Franconia, N.H.) charged through difficult visibility on the upper half of the Saslong super G and made an incredibly athletic move at the final gate to lead the U.S. Ski Team with eighth in Val Gardena on Dec. 20. Uncharacteristically warm temperatures in the Italian valley caused […]
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