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]

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]

(Photo by Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   Only one athlete in the history of the FIS Alpine World Cup has ever earned 2000 points in a single season. That feat was accomplished by Austria’s Hermann Maier (ze Herminator) twelve years ago.  Today, in the downhill event, Vonn captured her 12th season win at the ongoing world cup in Schladming, Austria,… [read article]

(Photo by Stanko Gruden/Agence Zoom/Getty Images) Lindsey Vonn winning the 2012 Downhill World Cup title.  The downhill is the longest and fastest event in alpine skiing   A few weeks ago she clinched the 2012 downhill title, now Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn just won her fourth overall World Cup title, after taking the victory in today’s giant slalom event… [read article]

(Photo by Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   Check out this amazing performance by superstar skier Lindsey Vonn.  After getting crossed up about halfway down the course in this weekend’s Bansko, Bulgaria, FIS World Cup Alpine Super G, Vonn somehow manages to make up over half a second in the final stretch of the course.  It’s like skiing alchemy!  Also like alchemy:… [read article]

(Photo by Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   When you think of alpine skiing, you usually think of looming mountain peaks, chalets warmed by open fireplaces, and hot tubs with hot toddies.  However, on rare occasion, the International Ski Federation (FIS) will host what’s called a ‘city event’.  These events are held on massive man-made slopes within a major city and… [read article]

(Photo by Alain Grosclaude/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   Mogul skier Hannah Kearney has won the last 10 FIS Freestyle world cup events.  Last season she went undefeated and this season she is three for three. Kearney’s most recent victory came this past Saturday at the FIS Freestyle world cup in Mont Gabriel in Canada. Kearney has been the dominant mogul skier… [read article]

(Julia Mancuso during Birds of Prey world cup last year – Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)   So close!  American Julia Mancuso juuust missed the top spot in the women’s downhill today in beautiful, bad, Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria.  Austrian Elisabeth Goerg took the win by .16 in her first downhill victory, on a very difficult course.  Fabienne Suter of Switzerland was… [read article]

(Photo by Francis Bompard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)   As we’ve mentioned, this is a huge weekend for winter sports with short track speedskating national champs, bobsled and skeleton world cups, cross-country skiing, and biathlon races.  And, of course, world cup skiing is back, starting tomorrow.  The men are taking the slopes in a very snowy Adelboden, Switzerland; while the women duke it… [read article]