(via FIBT – World Championships 2011)   As you all lay around stuffed to the gills with Thanksgiving’s feast, your thoughts might turn, as they do this time of year, to sports.  However, what if you’re tired of the usual season’s sporting fare? Glad you asked.  There is an entire winter smorgasbord of sports going on this weekend and here’s… [read article]

At the first FIS Alpine world cup event this season in Levi, Finland, 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the US women’s team it’s first medal.  Of course, every overnight sensation has been years in the making and Shiffrin is no different. The teenager has been wrecking competitors and gaining hype for years now – here are some quick facts: Shiffrin, a… [read article]

(image via US Ski Team)   Let’s get ready to rummmbbbllllleeeee!!!!!! Although we’ve already had a couple of FIS Alpine skiing world cups, the season is really getting started in a big way this weekend.  There are two upcoming events to enjoy this thanksgiving holiday for when the family is really driving you nuts; the ladies head to Aspen for… [read article]

When we first saw the ads for Recon Instrument’s in-goggle gps heads-up display, we were salivating at the prospects.  We could just imagine tearing down the mountain with Terminator vision ticking off our location, speed, and altitude as our headphones blared GNR – because we’re old school like that. At the time, you had to buy the GPS/display unit from… [read article]

  Olympic gold medalist and world GS champion Ted Ligety got off to a pretty amazing start this weekend at the first event of the 2012-13 FIS Alpine World Cup season, winning the Giant Slalom by a mind-blowing 2.75 seconds. Ligety’s win, the largest GS margin in over 30 years, took place in Soelden, Austria in some miserable conditions. In… [read article]

    If you happen to be a skier and own one of the Copper Mountain passes, the US Ski Team has a sweet contest for you.  You can enter to win a chance for you and a guest to ski with a member of the US Ski team at the US Ski Team Speed Training Center on Copper Mountain,… [read article]

It’s October 1st and we are just weeks away from the start of the international competitive season in over a dozen winter sports.  Skiing, skating, sliding, NHL… Oh, right; maybe not NHL, but generally speaking, if it can be done on frozen water, athletes are getting ready to do it. Of course, it wouldn’t be the start of the winter season… [read article]

Above, Ted Ligety of the US competes at FIS World Cup, 2011 in Soelden, Austria.  (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images) Olympic gold medalist skiers: they’re just like us!  Ok, not exactly like us, but on occasion even the best of us have a little tumble.  Two days ago, 3-time GS World Cup champ Ted Ligety posted this video, shot on his… [read article]

(Photo by Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   Lindsey Vonn has had a tumultuous year.  The 2010 Olympic gold medalist announced before the start of the 2011-12 season that she and her husband of four years Thomas Vonn were getting divorced.  The skier then went on to have the best season of any American in history, narrowly missing the single-season point record held… [read article]

In the history of Olympic cross country-skiing, the US has won approximately um… zero women’s medals. That’s right, the US have never had a woman step on the podium at the Olympics in cross-country.  In fact, there has only been one American to ever win a medal – Bill Koch won a silver in *blows dust off of sports almanac*… [read article]