Another World Cup ski cross silver medal and overall championship for Canadian Reece Howden. Howden, of Chilliwack, B.C., finished just behind Italian Simone Deromedis in a photo finish Sunday. Edoardo Zorzi, also of Italy, was third.
Reece Howden won the men’s silver medal and fellow Canadian Hannah Schmidt took the women’s bronze Saturday in the penultimate ski cross races of the World Cup season.
Mikaël Kingsbury was just four years old when he first put on skis in Saint-Sauveur, Que. Some 29 years later, after becoming the greatest athlete in his sport with an illustrious career, the Canadian moguls star will take his final bow in the same place.
Ottawa siblings Hannah and Jared Schmidt captured silver medals Saturday in a World Cup ski cross event at Ontario’s Craigleith Ski Club.
Canadian freestyle skier Naomi Urness won gold in the women’s big air event at a World Cup stop Friday to secure the Crystal Globe as the season champion.
Lindsey Vonn hasn’t completely shut the door on ski racing again. She hasn’t decided to return, either. The 41-year-old who is recovering from a serious downhill crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics is still trying to figure it all out, which she made clear in a social media post Sunday.
Mikaela Shiffrin moved closer to a sixth career World Cup overall title Sunday by scoring points in a rare start in super-G that her closest rival Emma Aicher did not finish.
Canada’s Reece Howden overcame recent disappointments to race to victory Saturday at a World Cup men’s ski cross event.
Canada’s Kevin Drury was injured in a violent, multi-skier crash in the men’s ski cross big final at a World Cup stop Friday, but still finished second.
American skier Lindsey Vonn says she nearly lost her left leg following a frightening crash in the women’s downhill at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Canadian ski cross star Reece Howden exited the Milan Cortina Olympics unexpectedly in the quarterfinals Saturday, but not before tearing a strip off games organizers for staging the competition in poor conditions.
Lindsey Vonn had another surgery on her badly broken left leg Friday and remained hospitalized nearly two weeks after her terrifying crash in the Olympic downhill.
Three Canadian freestyle skiers have qualified for the women’s halfpipe finals in Livigno, including Olympic gold medallist Cassie Sharpe who was taken away by sled after crashing in one of her runs.
Canadian freestyle skier Marion Thénault finished seventh in the women’s aerials on Friday at the Milan Cortina Olympics, just like she did in Beijing 2022. This time, the result was a bitter pill to swallow.
As elite cross-country skiers pushed to the finish in the women’s team sprint heats, a dog wandered onto the course and ran with athletes down the straightaway.
Canadian snowboarder Laurie Blouin took some solace in finishing fifth on a difficult day in women’s slopestyle at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday.
Tormod Frostad of Norway won the gold medal in big air freeskiing at the Milan Cortina Olympics, beating Mac Forehand of the United States on the last jump of a high-scoring final on Tuesday night.
The images of Lindsey Vonn down on the snow, screaming in pain and then being airlifted off the course by helicopter after her crash at the Olympics were a stark reminder of the dangers of the downhill. So is this: Her skis didn’t come off.
Canada’s Megan Oldham has won gold in the women’s freestyle skiing big air competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen wouldn’t change the way he was flying through the course in Monday’s Olympic slalom. Sure, he fell in the first run. Sure, it ended any hopes of another medal.
Mikaela Shiffrin stood at the start gate atop the giant slalom course at sun-splashed Tofane and made a promise to herself. “I’m going to do this whole thing here,” she said.
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