by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
American moguls skier Olivia Giaccio became the first woman to complete a cork 1080 (also known as a “cork 10”) when she landed the trick during Saturday’s World Cup stop in Tremblant, Canada. In a cork 1080, the athlete completes three rotations, one of them...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Petra Vlhova cemented her status as the leading female slalom skier of the season with her fifth win in six races Sunday with just a month to go before the Olympic race in Beijing. The overall World Cup champion from Slovakia won the penultimate slalom before the...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two years after retiring as the most decorated and fearless female skier of all time, Lindsey Vonn is sharing painful new details about the highs and lows of her storied career including the countless physical injuries she endured along the way — and, most poignantly,...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The phrase “control the controllables” is recited so frequently by athletes that the cliched phrase has lost some of its meaning. But for Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Jessie Diggins, that mentality is at the core of her success. “I know I sound like a...
by admin | Jan 4, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin is set to return to the women’s World Cup at a slalom on Tuesday, eight days after a positive Covid-19 test that forced her out of two technical races in Austria last week. Shiffrin had a negative test on Monday afternoon before the American’s name...
by admin | Dec 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins earned her second win in three stages of the Tour de Ski, moving back into first place in the overall standings of the Tour de France-like cross-country skiing stage race. Diggins won a furious sprint to the finish line of a 10km freestyle in...
by admin | Dec 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With Lindsey Vonn out of the picture, Breanna Noble “Breezy” Johnson has taken center stage as Team USA’s best in the Alpine skiing speed events. The Wyoming native will be 26 when the 2022 Games begin in February, and she’ll be coming off one the best stretches of...
by admin | Dec 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The French athlete, who won the women’s giant slalom World Cup title in 2017, took advantage of the absence of Shiffrin, with the American forced to miss the two races between Christmas and New Year because of a positive coronavirus test. Worley won by 0.30 seconds in...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss this week’s Alpine skiing World Cup races. “I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing well, but unfortunately I had a positive COVID test,” was posted on her social media Monday morning. “I’m...
by admin | Dec 26, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to snowboarder Chloe Kim who has now officially qualified for the Olympics! ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Covid which has affected the competition int he skiing world in particular this...
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