World Cup winner Marie-Michèle Gagnon completed a sweep of North American slalom titles with a dominant performance at the Sport Chek Canadian Championships in Whistler, B.C.
Olympic champion Marielle Thompson’s pursuit of a second ski cross World Cup title will go down to the wire after she was fourth and her rival for the Crystal Globe won Sunday’s race in Are, Sweden.
Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen won the women's 30km mass start to become the most decorated female Winter Olympian. It was the sixth Olympic gold and 10th medal overall for the 33-year-old.
American Maddie Bowman claimed Olympic Gold in the Ski Halfpipe Final today with a best score of 89.00. Marie Martinod finished in second with Ayana ONOZUKA winning bronze.
Dominique Gisin and Tina Maze made history in the women's downhill skiing by becoming the first athletes ever to share Winter Olympics gold. Lara Gut holds on to claim the bronze
Dara Howell performed a superb first round run to hold onto first place with a score of 94.20 with American Devin Logan second (85.40) just ahead of Canada's Kim Lamarre (85.00) who grabbed bronze on her second round run.
The Canadian Sisters Justine and Chloe DuFour-Lapointe won gold and silver in the freestyle women's moguls defeating defending champion Hannah Kearney in the final.
Reigning World Champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) was leading after the first run but struck a deep rut in her second run, slowing her to seventh in the final Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom before the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
Erin Mielzynski received a well-timed confidence boost by earning her best result of the 2013/14 World Cup season days before the start of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games when she finished 14th in the Audi FIS World Cup Kranjska Gora slalom on Sunday.
Marie-Michèle Gagnon racked up her ninth top-10 result of a stellar season with a 10th-place finish in the Flachau night slalom in Austria on Tuesday. photo Alpine Canada
Canadian Larisa Yurkiw earned a spot at the Winter Olympics after finishing sixth in a women’s downhill skiing World Cup event on Saturday, a career-best performance.
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin fought through snow, rain and deep ruts to win her second World Cup slalom of the season Sunday, displaying her ability to deal with all types of conditions a month before the Sochi Olympics.
Woman of the moment Marie-Michèle Gagnon saw her hopes of a first giant slalom World Cup podium slip through her fingers Sunday when she slid out when well placed in the second run in St. Moritz, Switzerland, while Marie-Pier Préfontaine posted a solid 19th-place result.
Another day, another career-best result in super-G for Canada’s Marie-Michèle Gagnon, who continued her red-hot start to the season on Saturday with a sixth-place finish at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Lara Gut of Switzerland regained the overall World Cup lead with Sunday’s super-G win in Lake Louise, Alta., while U.S. ski star Lindsey Vonn took another step in her comeback by finishing fifth.
Canada got off to a strong start at the Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup in Nakiska, Alta., as all four women advanced past the qualification round ahead of Friday’s season-opening races.
As she glided closer and closer to the finish line, Mikaela Shiffrin heard the roars, the ringing cow bells and the raucous music from the loud speaker.
Career-best giant slalom results from Marie-Pier Préfontaine and Erin Mielzynski and another strong performance from Marie-Michèle Gagnon gave Canada three racers in the top 20 at the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup in Beaver Creek, USA, on Sunday.
World Cup sprint champion Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) won a pre-season 1.2-kilometer freestyle sprint FIS race on Sunday during the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team’s first race series of the 2013-14 Olympic season.
Canada’s Marie-Michèle Gagnon continued her strong start to the season with a fifth-place result in the first Audi FIS World Cup slalom of the year in Levi, Finland. French version below-Gagnon 5ème, Terwiel 11ème au slalom de Coupe du monde de Levi