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Austrian slalom specialist Reinfried Herbst will be skiing for Fischer for at least two years after signing a contract with the company.
Herbst had previously skied with Blizzard and won the World Cup slalom title on that brand in 2010. His best result last season was an eighth scored at Schladming. He recently underwent shoulder surgery (March 29) to correct an injury sustained while training at Kitzbuehel.
“With my former outfitter I celebrated great successes, but now I want to look to the future and motivate me again,” he said. Herbst is 33. (Gepa photo.)
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So much for safety. Swiss Vitus Lueoend crashed while testing the new GS skis Wednesday, tore his left ACL and will be off snow until fall.
Canadian slalom skier Brad Spence has had knee surgery to alleviate pain that has progressively grown more acute and had reached a point that it has become, he said, “a limiting factor.”
Spence, from Calgary, traveled to London, Ontario for the surgery to his right knee, performed by orthopedic surgeon Bob Litchfield. Dr. Litchfield performed micro-fracture surgery to repair damaged cartilage. Spence is expected to be on crutches for six weeks or so, but no timeline has been established for his return to snow. 
A crash off the final jump in a World Cup Ski Cross event at Grindelwald, Switzerland Saturday (March 10) has claimed the life of Canadian racer Nik Zoricic.
One year after missing out on her fourth World Cup overall championship by just three points, American ski racer Lindsey Vonn finally reached that goal and has left no doubt as to who is the top woman in the sport today (March 9) as she set several U.S. records and claimed her 52nd career World Cup win with a GS victory in Are, Sweden.
Vonn, who won the first World Cup GS of her career at this season's opening race in Soelden, Austria in October, had just a 0.07-second lead in the first run today. .jpg)
Three late bibs put in charges in the FIS Junior World Ski Championship super G Tuesday (March 6) knocking Abby Ghent off the podium and down to sixth place.
Norwegian Annie Winquist, wearing bib 45 charged past early Swiss leader Joana Haehlen to take the gold. Third went to 34th starting Ragnhild Mowinckel, also of Norway, for her second medal of the title meet
Swiss Corinne Suter was fourth and Austrian Rosina Schneeberger posted fifth from the 32nd start, all of them knocking Ghent down. In bib 11 she had led in the early going. 
Bode Miller is done for the season.
A seemingly minor knee injury is causing discomfort and a limited range of motion so the 34 year old Miller has elected to shut down the season, have additional arthoscopic surgery and return to race next season.
“I love ski racing and I love being active,” Miller said, “so I hope for a solid recovery and to get back to training as soon as possible. I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.” 