Tag: FIS Alpine World Cup
ALPINE SKIING: Amazing Shiffrin takes Slalom, Giant Slalom and two more Crystal Globes
Even for someone who is a two-time World Cup Champion and two-time Olympic Champion, this was a career year for Mikaela Shiffrin.
Still just 24,...
ALPINE SKIING: Paris sweeps men’s speed events and Shiffrin wins the Super-G title in...
We’re only halfway through the FIS World Cup Final, but a series of firsts has highlighted the speed races, including first-ever discipline wins for...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: World Cup Final on this week in Andorra, with five Globes...
The biggest prizes of the Alpine World Cup season – the overall World Cup winners – have been decided, but there are still considerable...
ALPINE SKIING: Eighth World Cup title in a row for Marcel Hirscher!
It was a formality for sure, but the amazing Marcel Hirscher (AUT) continued to set new records by winning his eighth consecutive overall World...
ALPINE SKIING: Shiffrin wins record 15th World Cup race, closes in on Giant Slalom...
An almost-perfect weekend of skiing for Mikaela Shiffrin saw her just about close the books on her goals for the 2018-19 Alpine World Cup...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: Shiffrin chasing a record; Hirscher tries to lock up another Crystal...
The next-to-last weekend of the Alpine World Cup season could be a history-maker as the two great stars of the season can claim new...
ALPINE SKIING: Paris sweeps Kvitfjell Downhill and Super-G to close in a Crystal Globe
Italy’s Dominik Paris won both the Downhill and Super-G races in Kvitfjell (NOR) to edge closer to a career first: an Alpine World Cup...
ALPINE SKIING: Mikaela Shiffrin wins seasonal World Cup while relaxing in Italy
Bad weather brought good news for American skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin.
Heavy snows in Rosa Khutor (RUS) – site of the 2014 Olympic Winter competitions...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: Speed skiers weekend in Norway and Russia … maybe
The men’s Alpine World Cup lost two speed races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) in early February due to rough weather and had hoped to make...
ALPINE SKIING: Pinturault and Kristoffersen repeat Worlds wins in Bansko
The men’s World Cup in Bansko (BUL) had a familiar look from the recent World Championships as both of the winners had earned gold...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: World Cup resumes in Bansko and Crans-Montana
The final month of the Alpine World Cup is upon us, with three stops each for the men and women before the World Cup...
ALPINE SKIING: Shiffrin wins Stockholm City Event for record-tying 14th seasonal victory
The World Alpine Championships only ended last Sunday in Are (SWE), but the top technical skiers were back in action on Tuesday in Stockholm...
ALPINE SKIING: Men’s World Cup races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen cancelled
Bad weather has cancelled the men’s World Cup races in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, including a Downhill and Super-G. No word yet on whether the races may...
ALPINE SKIING: Shiffrin earns second gold in Maribor for 13th win of the season!
If momentum means anything in sports, Mikaela Shiffrin is riding a tsunami.
As the Alpine world turns its attention to the World Alpine Championships next...
ALPINE SKIING: Shiffrin and Vlhova tie in Maribor; Vonn will retire after World Champs
Ties aren’t common, but they show up occasionally in the FIS Alpine World Cup and they did again on Friday in Maribor (SLO) in...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: Shiffrin expected back on the slopes in Slovenia
Just about two-thirds of the women’s Alpine World Cup racing has been completed, and the final races prior to the 2019 World Alpine Skiing...
ALPINE SKIING: Home crowd happy with Hirscher’s 10th win of the season in...
It’s only been 16 days since Austria’s Marcel Hirscher won a FIS Alpine World Cup race, but it seemed like so much longer after losing twice to France’s new star, Clement Noel. So Tuesday’s Slalom win in Schladming (AUT) was welcomed by a happy Austrian crowd and Hirscher himself. FIS reported some 45,000 fans in […]
ALPINE SKIING: What’s this? France’s Noel beats Hirscher again in Slalom!
Who is Clement Noel?
That’s the question followers of the Alpine World Cup are asking, after the 21-year-old from Val d’Isere (FRA) won his second...
ALPINE SKIING: Hirscher looks for 10th win of the season in Kitzbuehel; will Shiffrin...
It’s a sign of how dominant Austria’s Marcel Hirscher is in the Slalom – where he is the five-time seasonal champion – that when...
ALPINE SKIING: Is Schwarz’s Austria’s coming star after a Combined win in Wengen?
The Alpine Combined is one of the orphans of the World Cup tour: rarely run and often canceled for various reasons. But it continued the break-out story of Austria’s 23-year-old Marco Schwarz, who might be a coming star after his second career World Cup win – both this season – in the Alpine Combined in […]
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