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Klaebo leads Norway’s sprint clean sweep, Sundling wins for Sweden
Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo led a stunning clean sweep of the individual sprint medals for Norway at the FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships on Thursday, and …
read moreSpeed skating: Christie devastated as pandemic forces Britain out of worlds
Triple gold medallist Elise Christie said she was devastated after Britain announced on Tuesday it had withdrawn from next month’s short track speed skating world …
read moreAlpine skiing: Norway’s Foss-Solevaag checks out with slalom gold
Norway’s Sebastian Foss-Solevaag took men’s slalom gold in the final race of the Cortina d’Ampezzo Alpine skiing world championships on Sunday.
read moreAlpine skiing: Shiffrin wraps up with most medals and a hunger for more
Mikaela Shiffrin wrapped up her Alpine ski world championships on Saturday with a fourth medal from four races and a hunger to go faster.
read moreAlpine skiing: Liensberger ends Shiffrin’s reign with slalom gold
Austria’s Katharina Liensberger won women’s slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Saturday to end Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for a record fifth successive …
read moreAlpine skiing: Faivre wins giant slalom for France as Pinturault misses out
Mathieu Faivre became the first Frenchman for more than 50 years to win giant slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships as team mate …
read moreAlpine skiing: Pinturault in charge after giant slalom first run
Frenchman Alexis Pinturault took a commanding lead in the first leg of the men’s giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships on Friday, leading …
read moreAlpine skiing: Race director received death threats after parallel events
Men’s race director Markus Waldner received death threats following the parallel giant slaloms at the Cortina d’Ampezzo Alpine skiing world championships, the organising committee said …
read moreAlpine skiing: Switzerland’s Gut-Behrami takes second gold from Shiffrin
Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin was poised for her second gold of the Alpine skiing world championships after leading U.S. team-mate Nina O’Brien in Thursday’s first …
read moreAlpine skiing: Norway beat Sweden to win mixed team parallel event
Norway claimed their first gold medal at this year’s Alpine skiing world championships by beating Sweden to win the mixed team parallel event on Wednesday.
read moreAlpine skiing: Bassino, Liensberger and Faivre are first parallel champions
Slovakia’s World Cup overall leader Petra Vlhova failed to qualify for the women’s parallel event on Tuesday, a day after winning silver in the Combined …
read moreAlpine skiing: Need for speed keeps me going, says record-breaker Shiffrin
American Mikaela Shiffrin claimed a record-breaking ninth world championships podium finish by taking gold in the women’s combined on Monday and said winning a medal …
read moreAlpine skiing: Imperious Shiffrin wins women’s combined
Canadian James Crawford stunned the field when he took pole position in the men’s combined event at the world alpine skiing championships as he clinched …
read moreAlpine skiing: Kriechmayr joins Miller and Maier with golden double
Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr won Sunday’s showcase men’s downhill by a hundredth of a second, the slimmest of margins, at the Alpine skiing world championships to …
read moreAlpine skiing: Ligety forgoes final race of career due to bad back
Double Olympic champion Ted Ligety, who planned to retire on his own terms after next week’s Alpine skiing world championships, abruptly called time on his …
read moreCross country skiing: World Cup races in Czech Republic cancelled
World Cup cross country ski races will not take place in the Czech Republic on Feb. 20-21 after COVID-19 restrictions in neighbouring Germany tightened, Czech …
read moreAlpine skiing: Norway cancels Kvitfjell World Cup races due to pandemic
Men’s Alpine skiing World Cup races scheduled for Kvitfjell, Norway, next month have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Ski Federation (FIS) …
read moreAlpine skiing: Shiffrin’s first super-G in 382 days is good for a bronze
Mikaela Shiffrin’s reign as super-G world champion ended on Thursday but, 382 days after her last race in the discipline, the American was happy enough …
read moreAlpine skiing: Kriechmayr gets the gold as Baumann springs a surprise
Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr survived a late scare to take the first major gold medal of his career in a tough men’s super-G at the Alpine …
read moreAlpine skiing: Gold for Gut-Behrami as sun shines in Cortina
Swiss favourite Lara Gut-Behrami won the women’s super-G gold medal as the Alpine skiing world championships started in Cortina d’Ampezzo on Thursday after a three-day …
read moreAlpine skiing: Not sure what future holds but won’t be coaching, says Ligety
Double Olympic champion Ted Ligety is not sure what the future will bring when he hangs up his ski boots after racing at the Alpine …
read moreAlpine skiing: Weather forces three-day wipeout at world championships
The Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo faced a three-day wipeout after fog forced the postponement of the women’s super-G on Tuesday and organisers …
read moreAlpine skiing: Double Olympic champion Ligety to retire after Cortina
American Ted Ligety, a double Olympic champion, announced on Tuesday he would retire after racing at the Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, …
read moreAlpine skiing: Opening world championship races fall foul of weather
The opening women’s combined race at the Alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo was postponed on Monday due to heavy overnight snow in the …
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