A cautious training run ahead of what many consider the toughest downhill of the World Cup circuit saw the home team excel at Bormio Italy this morning (Dec. 27). German Stephan Keppler recorded the fastest time down the Stelvio speed track, but would have been disqualified for missing a gate had it been race day. Matteo Marsaglia and Peter Fill, both Italians, had the next two fastest times respectively. The race is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 29. Continue reading 'Italians fastest on home course test run at Bormio'  Print This Post

The Alpine World Cup City Event planned on Jan. 1,  2012 at Munich was officially cancelled today. The lack of snow, warm temperatures with rain and no positive weather forecast into the immediate future called the end for the parallel slalom scheduled on a small hill located outside of the 'Olympia-Park' at Munich. It will not be replaced during the season.

Another 'City Event' is still planned in February at Moscow, where the best 16 skiers from the women and men World Cup standings will compete on a spectacular ramp built nearby the center of the Russian capital.

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American skier Lindsey Vonn   took a break from a busy World Cup tour schedule last night (Dec. 22) to fly into New York City for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. The Olympic gold medalist has started the 2012 racing season with remarkable success, winning five of the first six races she started. Most recently, she finished eighth in a slalom in Flachau, Austria on Tuesday.  Continue reading 'Lindsey Vonn makes Dave Lettterman Late Show appearance'  Print This Post

The top three of the World Cup night slalom at Flachau today (Dec. 21) were all within a tenth of a second. In races like these veteran Croate Ivica Kostelic shines and he lit up the snow, the ruts and the lights of Flachau for his second slalom win of the season. Swede Andre Myhrer had been fifth after the first run but took a risky and wild, charging second run and put pressure on the first run front runners. He wound up second .07 behind Kostelic, the defending Cup slalom champ. Getting third was Italian Cristian DeVille, overjoyed with his second career podium, and second of the season, just .09 behind Kostelic. Fourth was Felix Neureuther for Germany while the home standing Austrians had to be satisfied with Manfred Pranger (33) in fifth, Mario Matt (32) in ninth and Reinfried Herbst (33) in 11th, a slap in the face for those in the country calling for younger racers to get starts. Marcel Hirscher, (22) was a second run DNF.  Continue reading 'Kostelic flawless at Flachau for night win'  Print This Post

San Francisco, CA - The entire Sugar Bowl community expressed its sadness on Monday at the passing of F. Warren Hellman, business pioneer, civic philanthropist, passionate musician, devoted family man and winter sports enthusiast. As lead investor and member of Sugar Bowl Resort’s board of directors, Hellman was instrumental in providing his dedication, vision and leadership toward the revitalization of the ski resort on Donner Summit in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, near Lake...

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Ruka, Finland -France's Lucile Lefevre and Markus Malin of Finland each celebrated their career's first World Cup win in Ruka on Saturday. At the season's third halfpipe competition of the 2012 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup, Lefevre, the best ladies' qualifier, not only secured the top spot with a score of 81.3 points but also took over the Halfpipe World Cup lead with 1,290 points. "This is only my second World Cup event," acknowledged an excited Lefevre. "I'm super happy to have this...

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San Candido, Italy - Canada’s Kelsey Serwa made it a perfect two wins out of two Sunday when she led the women’s ski cross final from start to finish to secure her second World Cup victory in as many days. The 2011 ski cross world champion and X games gold medallist from Kelowna, British Columbia, followed up her golden start to the season in Saturday’s race with a dominating display on Sunday, which saw her win the qualification round, the quarter-final, the semifinal and then the...

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