Tag: Marcel Hirscher
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 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 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: 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: Worlds conclude with Hirscher’s third gold in men’s Slalom
Austria’s Marcel Hirscher had won two golds in each of the prior three Alpine World Championships, but that was not going to happen in...
ALPINE SKIING: Norway’s Kristoffersen earns sweet Worlds golds in men’s Giant Slalom
If it were not for the great Marcel Hirscher (AUT), Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen would be one of the most decorated skiers on the planet.
But...
ALPINE SKIING: 45th World Championships opens in Are Tuesday
The Alpine skiing world is gathered in Are (SWE) for the start of the 45th FIS World Championships in the famed ski town, with...
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 […]
ALPINE SKIING Preview: Lindsey Vonn readies for season debut in Italy
A busy week for both men and women on the slopes, with the men in Switzerland and the women in Italy:
● Women’s World Cup...
ALPINE SKIING: Hirscher sweeps Adelboden, beats Kristoffersen again
You have to have some sympathy for Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen. Just 24, he’s already won a World Cup seasonal Slalom title and been runner-up...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: Slalom season continues in Adelboden; more Hirscher wins on the way?
Austria’s Marcel Hirscher is already well on the way to a stunning eighth straight overall World Cup title, winning seven of 18 races held...
ALPINE SKIING: Amazing Shiffrin wins in Zagreb for fourth “Snow Queen” Trophy
American skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin may be the finest Slalom skier in history and won again on one of her favorite tracks, in Zagreb...
ALPINE SKIING Preview: More Mikaela wins on the way in Semmering?
The FIS Alpine World Cup continues right through New Year’s with a busy schedule right through the first weekend of 2019, and a chance...
ALPINE SKIING: Yule wins first World Cup gold in Madonna
The fifth Alpine World Cup race of the past week brought a nice holiday present for Swiss Daniel Yule – really, Yule? – who...
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