by admin | Dec 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin had to overcome a lot of pressure Tuesday to end her one-year drought in women’s World Cup giant slaloms. And not all the pressure on the American was coming from her rivals. Holding a big advantage of 0.72 seconds, Shiffrin found it hard to focus on...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Italian skier Sofia Goggia gave a thumbs-up with her right hand after dominating the fourth women’s World Cup downhill of the season on Saturday in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Her left hand she could barely move. Goggia won the race in impressive style, leading...
by admin | Dec 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
It was a bittersweet day for the Italian ski team when Elena Curtoni and Sofia Goggia finished 1-2 in a World Cup downhill held in difficult conditions Friday but Goggia came away with two broken fingers in her left hand. Goggia, the top downhiller on the circuit, hit...
by admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins‘ silver medal in the Olympic 30km cross-country skiing race, set amid food poisoning and a solo trek through single-digit temperatures last February, was one of gutsiest efforts in recent Winter Games history. Diggins recently described it in an...
by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the Alpine skiing World Cup podium with a runner-up to Swiss Wendy Holdener in a slalom in Sestriere, Italy, on Sunday. Holdener, who two weeks ago earned her first World Cup slalom victory (a tie with Swede Anna Swenn Larsson) after 30...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Sometime in the coming weeks, U.S. alpine ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin will presumably — presumably being a very loaded and problematic word here — win her 83rd race on the World Cup circuit, the highest level of her sport, thus passing fellow American Lindsey Vonn...
by admin | Dec 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins skied into the U.S. record books once again on Friday when she won the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle in the cross-country world cup event in Lillehammer, Norway. Diggins, a three-time Olympic medalist, notched her 13th individual world cup victory to...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Wendy Holdener’s lengthy wait for a slalom victory came to an end Sunday, although the Swiss skier had to share top spot with Anna Swenn Larsson. Mikaela Shiffrin finished fifth while bidding for a sixth straight win in Killington. The American was fastest in...
by admin | Nov 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th. Gut-Behrami was third in the opening run on the course in Killington, Vermont, but did just enough...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin became the first woman to win the first two races of the Alpine skiing World Cup season in 29 years, taking back-to-back slaloms this weekend and bouncing back from her worst string of slalom results to end last season. Shiffrin followed her 75th...
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