October 3, 2023
Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, the world’s high large slalom skier, received the occasion on the Beijing Olympics on Sunday, navigating an uncommon — and maybe unwelcome — coating of recent powder to earn his first gold medal. Odermatt, 24, completed with a mixed time of two minutes 9.35 seconds, 22 hundredths of a second sooner
READ MOREThe colourful strips of adhesive are arduous to overlook. Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling of Sweden, Denise Herrmann of Germany and Jessie Diggins of the USA have all been noticed with tape throughout their noses and cheeks in competitors. The skiers have been utilizing the tape to defend their faces from the consequences of freezing
READ MOREYANQING, China — At this level, Mikaela Shiffrin has gotten used to a sure rhythm to her life. Each 4 years, the world seems on her doorstep and asks what number of medals she goes to win on the Olympics. In spite of everything, she is, by many accounts, the perfect skier on this planet.
READ MOREUnease is gripping skiers within the males’s downhill, a high-speed sprint down an icy mountainside and a signature occasion of the Winter Olympics, as no skier has ever competed on the racecourse constructed for the Beijing Video games. The race shall be contested Sunday morning (Saturday night time in america). Olympic Alpine races are normally
READ MORE“Is it simply me, or do a few of the lifties look older this season?” requested my husband as we rode a chairlift at Snowmass, in Colorado — our native resort — a few days after Christmas. I reminded him that throughout the holidays, the Aspen Skiing Company’s govt group comes out to Snowmass and
READ MORERiley Soderquist has skied down Andean volcanoes in South America, traveled to the Alaska Vary and made a primary descent of the steep north face of Capitol Peak in Colorado’s Elk Mountains. However yr after yr, one ski mountaineering jewel has eluded him: Grand Teton. On one among his three makes an attempt between 2018
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