Didier Cuche gave Switzerland opening honors in the men's World Cup skiing season with victory in the giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier in Austria.
Legendary Austrian skier Hermann Maier has ended his illustrious career at the age of 36 despite having recovered from knee surgery.
From the very first words out of Bode Miller's mouth, it was apparent that this day would be different. "First of all, thank you guys for coming here,'' Miller said, opening his portion of a press conference in Los Angeles, at which he announced that he would be rejoining the U.S. Ski Team, and attempt to qualify for his fourth Olympic Games five months from now in Vancouver.
The death of actress Natasha Richardson, who sustained a fatal head injury while skiing, has reignited the perennial debate around the safety of the sport.
Skiers and snowboarders can cut the risk of brain injury dramatically by wearing helmets on the slopes, some experts say.
Iran is to send a female skier to the Winter Olympics for the first time at next year's Games in Vancouver, Canada, the head of the Islamic Republic's ski federation told state media Monday.
Aksel Lund Svindal has won the men's overall World Cup title for the second time in his career, after Austrian rival Benjamin Raich dramatically crashed out in the first leg of the closing slalom at the World Cup finals in Are, Sweden.
Austria's Benjamin Raich won the giant slalom at the World Cup finals in Are on Friday to close on the overall title ahead of the final race of the season.
Italy's Werner Heel won the super-G at the World Cup finals in Are as second-placed Aksel Lund Svindal clinched the title in the speed discipline and extended his lead in the overall standings.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway claimed the final downhill of the season at the World Cup finals in Are to edge ahead in a close battle for the men's overall title.
Didier Cuche gave Switzerland opening honors in the men's World Cup skiing season with victory in the giant slalom on the Rettenbach glacier in Austria.
Legendary Austrian skier Hermann Maier has ended his illustrious career at the age of 36 despite having recovered from knee surgery.
From the very first words out of Bode Miller's mouth, it was apparent that this day would be different. "First of all, thank you guys for coming here,'' Miller said, opening his portion of a press conference in Los Angeles, at which he announced that he would be rejoining the U.S. Ski Team, and attempt to qualify for his fourth Olympic Games five months from now in Vancouver.
The death of actress Natasha Richardson, who sustained a fatal head injury while skiing, has reignited the perennial debate around the safety of the sport.
Skiers and snowboarders can cut the risk of brain injury dramatically by wearing helmets on the slopes, some experts say.
Iran is to send a female skier to the Winter Olympics for the first time at next year's Games in Vancouver, Canada, the head of the Islamic Republic's ski federation told state media Monday.
Aksel Lund Svindal has won the men's overall World Cup title for the second time in his career, after Austrian rival Benjamin Raich dramatically crashed out in the first leg of the closing slalom at the World Cup finals in Are, Sweden.
Austria's Benjamin Raich won the giant slalom at the World Cup finals in Are on Friday to close on the overall title ahead of the final race of the season.
Italy's Werner Heel won the super-G at the World Cup finals in Are as second-placed Aksel Lund Svindal clinched the title in the speed discipline and extended his lead in the overall standings.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway claimed the final downhill of the season at the World Cup finals in Are to edge ahead in a close battle for the men's overall title.
A chairlift broke on Monday morning, sending skiers into the snowy hillside at a ski resort in southern Spain, according to the Sierra Nevada resort.
American Lindsey Vonn clinched the World Cup downhill title despite finishing back in 12th in the latest round in Bansko, Bulgaria.
'"I had such a crush on him when I was a kid," says my friend Didi Linburn, pigtails peeking out from beneath her pink ski helmet rather than the wool pompom hat she wore as a kid. I peer into the tiny ski shop at the Alta Peruvian Lodge and catch a glimpse of a cute guy in glasses behind the counter. "No idea how old he is," she says, "but I've seen him here every winter since I was 15."
Austrian Manfred Pranger won the men's slalom gold medal at the world skiing championships at Val d'Isere on Sunday, after watching his main rivals for victory crash out of contention one by one.
Germany's Maria Riesch claimed her first gold at a world championships in a dramatic finale to women's competition at Val d'Isere on Saturday.
Switzerland's Carlo Janka kept his nerve to claim gold in the men's giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships in Val d'Isere on Friday.
Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl has completed a shock victory in the women's giant slalom at the world skiing championships at Val D'Isere on Thursday.
Double world champion Lindsey Vonn cut her right thumb while opening a bottle of champagne in celebration of her downhill gold in Val d'Isere -- and ended up having surgery in Innbruck on Tuesday.
Lindsey Vonn of the United States saw her dream of sweeping the titles at the alpine skiing world championships disappear in a fraction of a second as she missed a slalom gate in the super-combi on Friday.
The title on Chris Doyle's business card reads "mad scientist," but he's not crazy, he's just crazy about snowboarding.
Cross-country skiing is less speedy -- and therefore less intimidating -- than its steep-sloped cousin, downhill skiing. It also burns more calories, as skiers glide along snowy trails and skate up inclines.
Switzerland's Didier Cuche claimed the first men's gold medal in the alpine skiing world championships in Val d'Isere with victory in Wednesday's super-G.
Lindsey Vonn extended her lead in the overall World Cup standings with victory in the super-G at Garmish-Partenkirchen on Sunday.
Didier Defago and Dominique Gisin gave Switzerland double cause for celebration with superb victories in World Cup downhills on Saturday.
Frenchman Julien Lizeroux banked his first World Cup victory when he triumphed in the men's World Cup slalom at Kitzbuehel, Austria, on Sunday.
Yes! No one is yelling, "Hurry up, Mom!" or tapping ski poles impatiently.
Swiss super-combined world skiing champion Daniel Albrecht was airlifted to hospital after a sickening crash on Kitzbuehel's Streif course on Thursday.
Manfred Pranger of Austria claimed his first World Cup victory in four years after securing a surprise win in Sunday's men's slalom at Wengen, Switzerland.
Austria's Reinfried Herbst upstaged favorites Jean-Baptiste Grange and compatriot Benjamin Raich to win the World Cup slalom in Abelboden in Switzerland on Sunday.
German skier Maria Riesch completed a World Cup slalom hat-trick in Croatia on Sunday and leapfrogged unlucky American Lindsey Vonn at the top of the overall standings.
Germany's Maria Riesch claimed her second World Cup victory of the season -- and eighth of her career -- by taking the women's night slalom in Semmering, Austria, on Monday.
Italy's Cristof Innerhofer mastered the treacherous conditions on the Stelvio course at Bormio to win the prestigious World Cup downhill event on Sunday.
Croatian Ivica Kostelic triumphed in Monday's rescheduled World Cup slalom in Italy with Jean-Baptiste Grange of France and Austria's Benjamin Raich completing the podium line-up.
Swiss Daniel Albrecht claimed the fourth success of his career on Sunday when he won the men's World Cup giant slalom at Alta Badia, Italy.
Austrian Michael Walchhofer has won the men's World Cup downhill at Val Gardena, Italy for the second year in succession from a back-to-form Bode Miller -- on a course shortened due to strong winds.
A group of skiers had a fortunate escape Tuesday after they were rescued from a stricken gondola that was left dangling over a freezing creek at a ski resort in Canada.
Passengers have been rescued from a gondola dangling over a freezing creek after the tower snapped in half Tuesday at a ski resort near Whistler, British Columbia.
Tanja Poutiainen of Finland won the World Cup giant slalom in La Molina, Spain on Saturday to take the lead in the overall standings.
The pros weigh in on every aspect of your skiing holiday--including your socks. Even you black-diamond types might learn a thing or two.
For Peter Metcalf, making a small business big is a matter of doing things in proper style. For this human StairMaster, that means taking the time to climb a combined 17,500 feet of Utah peaks on his 53rd-birthday weekend, toting a fine champagne for a summit party with family and friends.
The gold medalist ties the knot before 100 family and friends in Alabama
Dana White loves to say that running a major mixed martial arts organization isn't as easy it looks -- that's the typical self-congratulatory rhetoric we've become accustomed to from the outspoken UFC president. But White surely is the king of easy in comparison to the Elite XC, a recently tumbling promotion that has become the prodigy of making it look hard -- really hard.
Jumping shadows is not on the agenda for Canadian rider Jill Henselwood in this summer's equestrian competitions. Night-time jumping is not common for North American teams, which rarely have evening competitions, unlike their counterparts in Europe.
One brief moment during Elite XC's second installment of Saturday Night Fights on CBS encapsulated the plight of the new promotion: UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva flashed across the screen.
Thanks to its innovative wireless controls, family-friendly games and relatively inexpensive price tag, the Nintendo Wii is hotter than the dancing flames in Donkey Kong.
Yes, we have Roger. Yes, we developed the "Bird's nest" Olympic stadium. But in Switzerland, the 2008 Summer Olympics are still far away -- and not just geographically.
March gets noisy around now, here in the States. Tickets to the Big Dance are punched daily, brackets are busted, NFL free agents are signing, and veterans are being released or given new life. (Good luck David Carr, and if Eli Manning goes down, I don't want to be you even for one minute). In Florida and Arizona, the regulars are playing deeper into every exhibition game as Opening Day draws near.
Manfred Moelgg has claimed the World Cup slalom title after long-time leader Jean-Baptiste Grange faltered in the final race of the season on Saturday.
The final women's World Cup downhill of the season was canceled on Wednesday, hurting the hopes of American Lindsey Vonn in the race for the overall title.
Tucson grandmother Sandy Maxfield is determined to get her groove back -- on skis.
I love it when resorts really listen to us.
As his Gulfstream IV roared off the Bozeman, Mont., tarmac one Sunday this past December, billionaire Tim Blixseth glanced out the window and looked down at the Yellowstone Club. The homeowners in this 13,600-acre enclave include Bill Gates, News Corp.'s Peter Chernin, and Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The club is the world's only totally private ski and golf resort, and it is Blixseth's vision of nirvana. It is also as self-made as its founder, who grew up poor in rural Oregon and "ate Spam five days a week" when he wasn't using his father's shotgun to kill wild game for dinner. Despite this starting point, Blixseth went on to become a timber baron and smooth operator who twice persuaded President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress to allow him to create the club out of the Montana wilderness.
A men's World Cup downhill scheduled for Val D'Isere on Saturday was canceled because of heavy snowfall.
American skier Marco Sullivan surged to his first victory on the World Cup circuit on Saturday, winning the downhill event at Chamonix.
When Peter Jennings left the killing fields of Iraq in 2004 for a Swiss ski trip with his wife, he had no idea he'd never be on skis again. Death comes like a thief in the night, right? Cancer claimed the newsman the next year, but a production company he co-founded continued to make its first film, a documentary about extreme skiing called Steep.
Mary Blilie had been at Big Sky Resort in Montana for just one day but had already snapped more photos of her kids than she had in a long time.
Bode Miller proved the master of the Lauberhorn for the second successive year as he claimed victory in the World Cup downhill race at Wengen on Sunday.
An expansive talk with Sir Edmund Hillary about his historic ascent and the life and fame that came after
Austrian Mario Matt won the men's World Cup slalom in Switzerland on Sunday when American Ted Ligety crashed and compatriot Bode Miller failed to finish the first run.
Italy's Denise Karbon continued her domination of the giant slalom in the women's World Cup with her third straight win in the discipline coming in Linz on Friday.
Michael Walchhofer raced to his second downhill victory of the season when he won the World Cup event at Val Gardena.
Anja Paerson recaptured her form to score her first World Cup success of the season, a women's downhill in Saint Moritz.
Austrian skier Benjamin Raich won the World Cup slalom at Bad Kleinkircheim on Sunday to move to the top of the overall standings.
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway continued his superb start to the men's World Cup skiing season with victory in the Super-G at Lake Louise in Canada on Sunday.
Marc Gini of Switzerland won his first World Cup event on Sunday, capturing the slalom despite poor visibility because of heavy snowfall.
Bode Miller said on Friday he expects to compete in the season-opening World Cup race this weekend despite a back injury.
Olympic skier Jonny Moseley and his wife, Malia, have welcomed a baby boy, their spokesperson tells PEOPLE.
As mixed martial arts rises in popularity in the United States, many promotions are looking to get a piece of the action. With UFC possessing such an advantage in terms of recognition, visibility and market share, it will be an uphill battle for challengers.
The first news of last weekend was not shocking at all. After a meeting with officials of the U.S. ski team in Park City, Utah, Bode Miller had elected to separate from the team with the intention of competing independently on the World Cup Circuit. Team officials had offered Miller his customary position on the alpine team, befitting for one of the most accomplished racers in the history of the sport.
American speed specialist Kirsten Clark has retired from competitive skiing, the U.S. Alpine skiing federation announced on Tuesday.
Imagine skiing on untouched snow where chairlifts, queues and other skiers don't exist.
Nicole Hosp rubber-stamped a season of Austrian World Cup domination on when she clinched the overall and giant slalom crowns.
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal held off Austrian Benjamin Raich to win Alpine skiing's overall World Cup title on Sunday in one of the most exciting finishes for years.
Aksel Lund Svindal surged to within touching distance of the overall World Cup title on Saturday, winning the final giant slalom of the season to complete a stunning hat-trick of victories in this Swiss resort.
During one December stretch, the U.S. Ski Team scored an unprecedented nine (top-three) podium finishes in seven races over a six-day period. It was a stunning display of high-level racing by five skiers, and coming one year after a disappointing performance at the Turin Olympic Games, lent some credibility to the team's marketing slogan (or "goal," depending on who you ask): Best In the World.
When American Julia Mancuso won the gold medal in the super giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Stefan Ytterborn may have been the only Swedish skier celebrating.
Tanja Poutiainen of Finland won her first World Cup race in more than two years with victory in a giant slalom on Saturday to move to just 16 points behind Austria's Nicole Hosp in the trophy battle.
Benjamin Raich took the giant slalom World Cup lead with his third successive victory in Kranjska Gora on Saturday.
Renate Goetschl of Austria added the downhill World Cup to the super-G title she had already won by finishing second behind American Julia Mancuso in the penultimate race of the season on Saturday.
Italian skier Denise Karbon will miss the rest of the World Cup season after fracturing a bone in her ankle.
Austrian skier Renate Goetschl suffered a setback in her bids for the overall World Cup and downhill titles as she injured both her knees in a training accident on Thursday.
For me, ski trips are vastly important. Riding chairlifts affords me the time to solve today's universal riddles:
Bode Miller will not take part in the team event at the Alpine ski world championships on Sunday, his team said on Saturday.
Mario Matt rescued the Austrian men's team in the nick of time on Saturday, winning the men's slalom to give them their first gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.
U.S. alpine skier Lindsey Kildow has long been burdened by her own promise. She won an international race in Italy at age 14, followed by three medals in the junior world championships. She earned a place on the 2002 Olympic team at age 17 and, six weeks after her 20th birthday, had her first World Cup victory, at a downhill in Canada in December 2004.
Sarka Zahrobska kept her cool to upset the big names and become the first Czech to win a world Alpine skiing title in Friday's women's slalom.
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal won his second gold medal of the world skiing championships in Are with victory in the men's giant slalom on Wednesday.
Former world slalom champion Ivica Kostelic failed to qualify for the men's giant slalom at the world Alpine skiing championships, when he was disqualified during qualifying because a plate on top of his bindings was too thick.
A mighty Austrian squad, led by exciting newcomer Kathrin Zettel, will be out to stop Anja Paerson's amazing run in the women's giant slalom at the world Alpine skiing championships on Tuesday.
Anja Paerson became the first person to win world titles in all five Alpine skiing events when she blazed to downhill victory with another dream run at the world championships on Sunday.
Bad weather hit the showcase event at the world skiing championships on Saturday when the men's downhill had to be postponed because of poor visibility on the upper part of the course.
Anja Paerson won her second gold of the Alpine skiing world championships with a solid slalom run sealing victory in Friday's super-combined race.
Making your debut on the slopes can get tricky long before you slide off the chairlift.
Bad weather delayed the start of the world Alpine skiing championships when the opening men's super-G scheduled for Saturday was postponed until Monday.
Weather delays are expected at the world Alpine skiing championships starting in Are on Saturday, but the entire program should not be disrupted, organizers said.
Austrian Benjamin Raich won the World Cup slalom on one of his favorite slopes on Tuesday to dash Swedish sensation Jens Byggmark's hopes of a third win in a row.
Jens Byggmark outshone the favorites to win a slalom in Kitzbuehel on Saturday, for his first World Cup victory.
American Julia Mancuso's superb season continued on Friday when she beat the Austrian favorites to win a rain-delayed World Cup super-G race at Cortina d'Ampezzo.
American Bode Miller claimed his fourth World Cup win of the season on Saturday with a storming performance in the classic Lauberhorn downhill.
Renate Goetschl put the Austrian women back on track in the blue riband event of the World Cup with victory in a downhill race on Saturday.
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