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Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde announce their engagement
INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — Skiing power couple Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced they're engaged to be married. Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion who has won a record 97 World Cup races, holds her ring up to the camera in one of several photos they...
Swiss star Gut-Behrami secures overall and GS titles after finishing 10th at World Cup finals
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Lara Gut-Behrami has completed half of her mission to win four crystal globes this Alpine skiing World Cup season. And the Swiss star hasn't even had to show her best skiing yet. Gut-Behrami secured the overall and giant slalom...
Shiffrin caps injury-marred ski season with record-extending 60th win in slalom and 97th overall
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — For Mikaela Shiffrin, the award for the best slalom skier this season is different from the 15 crystal globes the American star won earlier in her career. This one, for a change, doesn’t feel like the end of a season. Shiffrin...
Shiffrin wins 1st race after six-week injury layoff to lock up World Cup slalom season title
ARE, Sweden (AP) — All Mikaela Shiffrin has been really looking for in her first race back after a six-week injury layoff was “good skiing.” What she got, though, was even by the American star's standards “an insane way to return.” Shiffrin made a triumphant...
Brazil gains Winter Olympics medal prospect after skier Lucas Braathen switches from Norway
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Brazil has a top Winter Olympics medal prospect in Alpine skiing after the World Cup slalom champion last season, Lucas Braathen, announced on Thursday he will start to compete for his mother’s home nation. Braathen, whose father is Norwegian, split from...
Mikaela Shiffrin preparing to return from downhill crash at slalom race in Sweden this weekend
Mikaela Shiffrin’s return from her downhill crash is still on schedule for this weekend in Sweden, though the American standout might only enter one of the two World Cup races at the resort in Are. “Mikaela is improving in slalom and feels that the slalom race is still realistic,...
Loic Meillard caps successful weekend in Aspen with World Cup slalom win
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Loic Meillard of Switzerland capped a podium-filled weekend in Aspen by winning a World Cup slalom. After taking second in back-to-back giant slalom races in the glitzy resort town, Meillard overcame a first-run deficit to win Sunday with a combined time of 1...
Brignone wins stop-start fog-disrupted super-G as Gut-Behrami extends overall World Cup lead
KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Federica Brignone won a stop-start women’s World Cup super-G disrupted by fog on Sunday but Lara Gut-Behrami extended her lead in the discipline and overall standings. Gut-Behrami was second in Kvitfjell, 0.61 seconds behind Brignone — who is third in...
Marco Odermatt uses a second-run comeback for his 12th World Cup giant slalom win in a row
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Marco Odermatt recovered from a first run that left him trailing and a poor start in the second to pull out a victory and extend his World Cup giant slalom winning streak to 12 races, aided by a major mistake by the last skier down the hill Saturday. Odermatt,...
Marco Odermatt wins his 11th giant slalom in a row to add that title to his overall World Cup title
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Marco Odermatt stretched his World Cup giant slalom winning streak to 11 races on Friday and added that discipline's season title to the overall title he clinched last weekend. Odermatt won the last three GS events last season and is now 8-0 this season, opening...
