by admin | Feb 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Italian Alpine skiing ace Sofia Goggia came within an eyeblink of the impossible and settled for the improbable in the women’s downhill, winning the silver medal just 23 days after sustaining multiple serious injuries to her left knee. On January 23, a crash in a...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Struggling U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin is cutting out interviews at the Beijing Winter Olympics. After disqualifications in the giant slalom and slalom generated controversial TV coverage that included a raw interview with NBC, the two-time gold medalist issued a...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Breezy Johnson, one of the top American medal contenders for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, will miss a second straight World Cup downhill after her second crash in two weeks. Johnson fell during the second training session in Cortina on Friday and was removed from...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Shiffrins discovered the lyrics on a wedding program in the pocket of an old tuxedo. They had been printed 25 years ago, read aloud at the ceremony and forgotten. Mikaela Shiffrin—easily the most accomplished competitive skier still active; perhaps, one day, the...
by admin | Jan 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, the U.S.’ top two Alpine skiers, are for different reasons sitting out this weekend’s World Cup speed races three weeks before the Olympics. Shiffrin, who has said she hopes to race all five individual events at the Olympics for...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin won the last women’s World Cup slalom before the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, while her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title in the discipline. Racing on the challenging Planai course, the American improved from fifth place,...
by admin | Dec 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sofia Goggia has been unbeaten in downhill for an entire year. Now the Olympic champion from Italy is starting to dominate in super-G, too. Goggia won the last women’s World Cup super-G of the calendar year Sunday, a day after she triumphed in her seventh straight...
by admin | Dec 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Olympic champion Sofia Goggia held up seven fingers after finishing a women’s World Cup downhill downhill Saturday. One for each victory in her last seven downhill starts. Read More
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova will stick to her reduced World Cup schedule this season, making it unlikely she’ll become a threat to Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for the overall title. Initially a slalom specialist, Vlhova became the first overall champion from Slovakia...
by admin | Dec 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin earned her first World Cup podium in a speed race since January 2020, taking third in a super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Saturday. Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, the world champion, prevailed by .18 of a second over Italian Sofia Goggia, who won all...
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