Italian officials made a formal request on Monday to postpone the 2021 alpine skiing world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo until March 2022.
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — The signature Alpine skiing race in Switzerland risks being dropped from the World Cup schedule because of a money dispute with the national ski...
ARE, Sweden (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin will not get a chance to defend her overall ski title.
The last races of the women's Alpine skiing World Cup season were canceled Wednesday amid public...
MILAN (AP) — The alpine skiing World Cup Finals and major Italian cycling races were among the latest sporting events to be canceled on Friday because of the escalating virus outbreak.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s chances of extending her three-year reign as overall champion took another hit when the alpine skiing World Cup Finals in Italy were canceled on Friday because of the virus...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Davos is set to host World Cup races in Alpine skiing for the first time in 36 years.
The high-end Swiss resort will stage slalom parallel racing events for men and...
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese Football Association has announced that all domestic matches of the 2020 season will be postponed in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus that has now...
GENEVA (AP) — Amid growing concern at the spread of a new virus outbreak in China, international sports have been postponed and Olympic qualifying tournaments are being taken elsewhere.
KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) — Right after posting the fastest time in a frenetic run at a men's World Cup super-G on Friday, Kjetil Jansrud clicked out of his skis, held them both up in the air and...
VIENNA (AP) — Super-G world champion Dominik Paris will miss the rest of the Alpine skiing season after damaging his right knee in a training accident in Austria on Tuesday.
SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — Sestriere has announced its candidacy for the 2029 Alpine skiing world championships in a bid to bring a major event back to the Italian slopes of the 2006 Turin...
LIENZ, Austria (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin keeps closing in on the many Alpine skiing records held by retired standout Lindsey Vonn.
Shiffrin earned her 43rd career World Cup slalom win Sunday...
SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Three-time overall World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin has been voted skier of the year for 2019, beating last year's winner Marcel Hirscher in the vote by the...
SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — With Mikaela Shiffrin's dominance in the Alpine skiing World Cup increasing each year, some of her main competitors don't seem to hold out much hope of beating the American...
VIENNA (AP) — Prize money in Alpine skiing is set to reach new heights in the upcoming World Cup season as the winners of the classic downhill and the slalom in Kitzbuehel in January will both...
VIENNA (AP) — Marcel Hirscher's biggest wish was to leave Alpine skiing as a winner.
On Wednesday, the two-time Olympic champion from Austria did just that.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lindsey Vonn, the retired Alpine skiing champion, is ready to look back.
Vonn's memoir, "Rise: My Story," will come next year, Dey Street Books announced Monday. Vonn will...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Olympic slalom champion Frida Hansdotter will retire from Alpine skiing's World Cup next week, ending a years-long rivalry with Mikaela Shiffrin.
GENEVA (AP) — Call it a case of bad timing, in Switzerland of all places.
In a nation renowned for precision clocks and Alpine skiing, Swiss timekeepers of a World Cup race got things so...
MONACO (AP) — Tiger Woods, Novak Djokovic, Lindsey Vonn and the France national soccer team were among the winners at the Laureus World Sports Awards, with Woods claiming the Comeback Award 19 years after he was first recognized.
Woods, who won the inaugural World Sportsman of the Year award in 2000, won the Tour Championship in September for his 80th PGA Tour title and his first since August 2013.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — Maybe Alpine skiing won't be so lost without Lindsey Vonn and Aksel Lund Svindal after all.
One week after Vonn and Svindal retired by claiming medals in their final races, Mikaela Shiffrin and Marcel Hirscher both showed true grit by fighting through debilitating sickness to claim the slalom titles at the world championships that everyone expected them to win.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — A proud and storied Alpine skiing nation, Austria headed into the final event of the world championships in danger of finishing without a gold medal for the first time in a generation.
Trust Marcel Hirscher to deliver when it matters the most.
In perhaps his last race at the worlds, Hirscher produced one of the best runs of his decorated career to set up a big lead in the slalom, then coasted to victory and a record-tying seventh career gold medal at the event.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin will be able to choose her program from seven events at the next world championships.
The International Ski Federation says it is adding an individual parallel event for the 2021 worlds in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and will keep the Alpine combined on the program.
There had been concern that the combined, Alpine skiing's original Olympic event introduced at the 1936 Games, would be eliminated.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — Switzerland has now won gold in all 11 events in the history of the Alpine skiing world championships.
The Swiss completed their medal collection by narrowly beating rival Austria to win the team event Tuesday.
Ramon Zenhausern edged Marco Schwarz in the final run as the Swiss followed up their Olympic title from last year's Pyeongchang Games.
Wendy Holdener, who won the combined on Friday, gave Switzerland its first point.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — The Latest on the Alpine skiing world championships (all times local):
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P.K. Subban of the NHL's Nashville Predators has done his best to welcome home Lindsey Vonn and into retirement.
Subban tweeted out video Tuesday of Vonn returning to Nashville, Tennessee, saying she was back in the mix and officially retired.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — With the Alpine combined possibly getting axed from major skiing championships, Alexis Pinturault had one final chance to assert his long-time dominance of the event.
He didn't waste it.
The French skier produced the second-fastest slalom leg to rise from 24th place after the downhill portion and win by 0.24 seconds at the world championships on Monday.
It was Pinturault's first individual gold medal at a major championship.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — The Latest on the Alpine skiing world championships (all times local):
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Lindsey Vonn has no regrets about retiring after "pushing through the pain one last time" to win bronze in the final race of her career.
Vonn says "every athlete has their own obstacles and I faced mine head on today and I conquered them."
The American skier says winning bronze was "the best I could have done today" because "there's not another gear."
ARE, Sweden (AP) — The Latest on the Alpine skiing world championships (all times local):
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Kjetil Jansrud narrowly beat Norwegian teammate Aksel Lund Svindal in the final race of Svindal's career.
Amid a crowd of thousands of flag-waving Norwegian fans, Jansrud finished 0.02 seconds ahead of Svindal in the men's downhill.
Vincent Kriechmayr of Austria came third, 0.33 behind.
ARE, Sweden (AP) — The Latest on the Alpine skiing world championships in Are, Sweden (all times local):
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Norwegian skier Kjetil Jansrud says he hopes to race in the super-G at the world championships on Wednesday, two weeks after breaking two bones in his left hand in a crash in downhill training in Kitzbuehel.
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — For a skiing event that risks losing its Olympic status next month, Alpine combined put on a good show Friday.
Marco Schwarz won the men's World Cup race watched by 18,000 spectators at storied Wengen, using a solid downhill run to retain his first-leg advantage in slalom.
Schwarz was 0.42 seconds ahead of Victor Muffat-Jeandet, the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in combined. Games silver medalist Alexis Pinturault was third, 1.12 behind the winner.
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Only by Norway's stellar standards in men's Alpine skiing has this World Cup speed season been low key.
Less than a year after long-time stars Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud finished 1-2 in the Pyeongchang Olympic downhill watched by Norway's crown prince , results in the marquee event have been elusive.
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — After months of agonizing over a decision she would have preferred not to have to make, skier-snowboarder Ester Ledecka has finally chosen to compete in the Alpine skiing world championships next month instead of the snowboard worlds.
ADELBODEN, Switzerland (AP) — Once more in his stellar career, Marcel Hirscher was racing against Alpine skiing's history book on Sunday.
The Austrian great almost inevitably won a World Cup slalom, his ninth victory at Adelboden, to set a men's record on the 52-year circuit for most wins by one skier at a single venue.
"It is really a special place," said Hirscher, who noted he got his first World Cup top-10 finish at Adelboden as a teenager in the January 2008 slalom.
SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — Olympic skiing and snowboarding gold medalist Ester Ledecka led the second training session Monday for a World Cup downhill by a comfortable margin.
Competing two days after winning a parallel giant slalom snowboarding event in nearby Cortina d'Ampezzo, Ledecka finished 0.40 seconds ahead of Selva native Nicol Delago of Italy.
Nicole Schmidhofer, the Austrian who won this season's opening two downhills, was third, 0.43 behind.
VIENNA (AP) — The season-opening men's World Cup race that was canceled in Soelden over the weekend has been rescheduled for another Austrian resort in December.
The international ski federation says the giant slalom will be held in Saalbach-Hinterglemm on Dec. 20, four days after another GS is set for Alta Badia and two days before a slalom in Madonna di Campiglio.
Saalbach-Hinterglemm hosted the 1991 Alpine skiing world championships and last staged World Cup races in February 2015.
SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Marcel Hirscher's offseason preparations have been seriously hindered for a second straight year.
But few doubt it will affect the Austrian's chances of winning his eighth overall World Cup title in a row, with the new Alpine skiing season getting underway this weekend.
Last year, Hirscher fractured an ankle bone during his first day on snow in August, forcing him to sit out the entire prep period.
MILAN (AP) — Italy will launch a three-city bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Turin and Cortina.
The Italian Olympic Committee announced the move on Wednesday, having decided a joint bid was more cost effective. It was unanimously voted for by the CONI board.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, however, has criticized the decision and says that while his city would still be willing to host Olympic events, it will not be involved in the governance of the bid.
PRAGUE (AP) — Ester Ledecka has received a hero's welcome in the Czech capital after winning an unprecedented Winter Olympics double in snowboarding and Alpine skiing.
"Ester, Ester," chanted thousands of Czechs who braved freezing temperatures to see Ledecka at Prague's picturesque Old Town Square on Monday.
Her victory in the super-G ranks among the unlikeliest in the history of skiing. She came from nowhere to beat a field including Lindsey Vonn and defending champion Anna Veith.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):
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Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic won the second leg of an unprecedented Winter Olympics double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding's parallel giant slalom to pair with her surprise skiing victory in the Alpine super-G a week earlier.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Czech snow star Ester Ledecka won the second leg of an unheard-of Olympic double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding's parallel giant slalom to go with her surprise skiing victory in the Alpine super-G a week earlier. Norway's third-place finish in the new Alpine skiing team event gave the country a record 38 medals at a single Winter Olympics. And the U.S. beat Sweden 10-7 for a decisive upset in the men's gold medal curling game.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Now it is clear exactly how much it hurts Marcel Hirscher not to have an OIympic title in slalom.
After a stunning early exit in his best event, the 28-year-old Austrian star was ready to publicly rewrite his career plans.
"I need a gold medal in slalom," Hirscher told reporters Thursday, minutes after failing to get halfway down a first-run course set by his own coach.
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — For about 20 minutes during the Olympic giant slalom, Ryan Cochran-Siegle was in the leader's box, soaking up the spotlight. By the end of the race Sunday, he had slipped into a tie for 11th.
That's just about par on the icy course for the U.S. men's Alpine skiing team at these Winter Games.
The squad wasn't really expected to do all that well — and it hasn't.