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 | Jan 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Only her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova remained out of reach. Otherwise, Mikaela Shiffrin had a satisfying return to competition at a floodlit slalom Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19 and missing two races last week. The American trailed winner Vlhova by...
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 | Jan 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Triple Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor earned her first two-woman World Cup bobsled victory since February 2019, winning in Sigulda, Latvia, on Sunday. Meyers Taylor and brakewoman Lake Kwaza prevailed by .22 of a second over Brits Mica McNeill and Adele Nicoll....
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 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sara Hector ended a drought of nearly five years for the Swedish women’s ski team by beating Mikaela Shiffrin in both runs of a World Cup giant slalom on Wednesday. No Swedish skier had triumphed on the women’s World Cup circuit since Frida Hansdotter won a night...
by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin has won both giant slaloms this season and now trails only two women on the all-time World Cup GS victories list. Shiffrin, who owns a record 46 World Cup slaloms wins, earned her 14th victory in the GS in Courchevel, France, on Tuesday. She has 72nd...
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 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Girls’s sports activities have come a good distance since Julie Foudy’s glory days with the US Girls’s Nationwide Crew. The 2-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time World Cup champion — most notably with the 1999 USWNT that gained soccer’s largest match on American...
by admin | Dec 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
World champion Lara Gut-Behrami walked away from a hard crash in a World Cup super-G won by Italian Federica Brignone in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday. The Swiss Gut-Behrami skied off course at 60 miles per hour and through two layers of fencing near the bottom...
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