By USSA TIGNES, France -– Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe) threw down a stylish and technical run to win silver in snowboard slopestyle at X Games Tignes on Friday. She was gunning for an X Games three-peat, after winning gold at X Games Tignes in 2011 and 2012. She put down a progressive line in […]
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By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) captured the first U.S. title of her career with a mere 0.01 second super G victory over Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) on Friday at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships at Squaw Valley. The incredibly tight race saw favorite and defending champion Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) […]
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Ready to get up close and personal with today’s best freeskiers? Then volunteer for the March 29-31 U.S. Freestyle Championships being hosted by Heavenly Mountain Resort. On snow and off snow help is needed. Volunteers are needed in mogul course and big air jump maintenance, banner set-up, food and beverage runners, registration, zero waste warriors […]
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By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — It was locals day at Squaw Valley as Tim Jitloff (Reno) boosted his U.S. title count to four with a victory in the men’s giant slalom to close a sun soaked Day 1 of competition at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships. Jitloff is the 2008 and 2009 U.S. giant […]
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By USSA OLYMPIC VALLEY — Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) on Thursday took full advantage of home snow to win the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships giant slalom for a record 16th U.S. title. The Olympic gold medalist finished 0.88 in front of a red-hot Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.), 18, who had just […]
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By Sean Gregory, Time What ticks off many college students even more than an 8am class? Finding out how much they pay for sports. B. David Ridpath, a professor of sports administration at Ohio University and a former president of the Drake Group, a college-sports watchdog organization, just finished polling about 4,000 students attending schools […]
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By USSA PARK CITY – Tahoe athletes are among the 35 skiers and snowboarders who will be competing at the 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships March 26-31 at Valmalenco, Italy. The event includes moguls, aerials, skicross, halfpipe and slopestyle. Headlining the team are U.S. Team members Mac Bohonnon (Madison, Conn.) in aerials, Ali Kariotis […]
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By USSA TIGNES, France -– Despite the falling snow, Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt.) took her 62nd podium and the gold medal at the X Games Tignes women’s halfpipe on Wednesday. Elena Hight (South Lake Tahoe) rode away with the silver and 16-year-old rookie Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) landed on the podium with bronze. […]
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Tahoe Resource Conservation District has received two grants that will be used to implement a basinwide stormwater monitoring program. The first is for $750,000 and the second is $760,000; for a time period of four years. The regional stormwater monitoring program will not only serve to fill scientific gaps, and provide a means by which […]
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By Lisa O’Daly On March 15-17, 50 of California and Nevada’s fastest under 14 ski racers were invited to spend a weekend racing and training at Sugar Bowl for the 2013 Far West Performance Camp. Olympian Daron Rahlves, a World Cup alpine race champion and the most decorated American downhill and super G skier in […]
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