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Sugarloaf ski area aims to be biggest in East (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: September 1, 2010, 2:00 pm] Maine's Sugarloaf ski area says a planned expansion will make it the largest ski resort east of the Rocky Mountains. Crews will begin clearing trees next week to add 270 acres of terrain for the coming season and 655 acres in the next three years. That will give the resort a total of 1,310 acres of skiable terrain. Ex-ski jumper Nykanen convicted of assaulting wife (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: August 24, 2010, 8:44 am] A Finnish court has convicted former Olympic ski jumping champion Matti Nykanen of aggravated assault against his wife and sentenced him to one year and four months in prison. The district court in Pirkanmaa says the 47-year-old attacked his wife Mervi Tapola with a kitchen knife in their southern Finland home on Christmas Day last year. Olympic ski champ Janka hit by virus for 2nd year (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: August 12, 2010, 12:44 pm] Olympic and World Cup champion Carlo Janka says his preparations for the Alpine skiing season have been hit by a mystery virus for the second straight year. Janka said Thursday that doctors cannot explain why he felt fatigued and unable to train more than 10 hours each week in April. The 23-year-old Swiss said he recently skied again and will leave Friday for a training camp in Argentina. US moguls skier Shannon Bahrke retires (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: July 27, 2010, 7:37 pm] Olympic freestyle ski medalist Shannon Bahrke of the United States is retiring, ending a 12-year career that spanned three games. The U.S. Ski Team announced Bahrke's retirement Tuesday. Bahrke won the women's moguls silver medal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Games and added a bronze this year in Vancouver, the last of her three Olympics. Holaus ends career with broken ankle (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: July 14, 2010, 10:42 am] Austrian skier Maria Holaus has retired from the World Cup circuit after breaking her right ankle during pre-race warmups for a downhill on home snow at Haus im Ennstal in January. Austria women's head coach Herbert Mandl said Wednesday that Holaus "has considered (retirement) for quite some time. Bode Miller submits contract with US Ski Team (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: July 14, 2010, 9:11 am] Bode Miller's return for another season on the slopes appears all but assured after he signed and submitted his contract to be a member of the U.S. Ski Team. U.S. men's coach Sasha Rearick told The Associated Press he has chatted with Miller and that the two-time World Cup overall champion is "jazzed up" about skiing. Peru police recover body of freeskier Backstrom (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 5, 2010, 3:00 pm] Peruvian mountain rescue police brought the body of acclaimed freeskier Arne Backstrom down off 5,752-meter (18,780-foot) Pisco mountain on Saturday, two days after he died in a high-altitude fall. Recovering Backstrom's body from the remote peak in the Cordillera Blanca range was delayed a day because rescuers first had to remove a local guide who broke his leg in the operation, said officer... Father confirms death of freeskier Backstrom (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 5, 2010, 12:18 pm] Acclaimed freeskier Arne Backstrom has died in a fall on a Peruvian mountain, according to his father. Steve Backstrom told The Associated Press Friday that he was notified of his 29-year-old son's death by rescuers and later by the U.S. Embassy officials. Backstrom, of Olympic Valley, Calif., was the first-place winner at this year's Canadian Freeskiing Championship and a rising star in... FIS to seek Olympic status for ski halfpipe (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 4, 2010, 12:09 pm] The International Ski Federation is proposing that ski halfpipe be added to the program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The FIS Congress agreed Friday to ask the International Olympic Committee to include ski halfpipe medal events for men and women at the Sochi Games in Russia. Ski halfpipe was proposed by the U.S. Vail-Beaver Creek to host 2015 Alpine worlds (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 3, 2010, 11:34 am] The Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts in Colorado will host the Alpine world championships in 2015. The International Ski Federation picked the American bid Thursday ahead of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and St. Moritz, Switzerland. The decision sends the biennial event back to North America after seven straight championships in Europe. Poland's Marek gets 2-year ban for Olympic doping (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 3, 2010, 9:53 am] The International Ski Federation has imposed a two-year ban on Polish cross country skier Kornelia Marek for doping at the Vancouver Olympics. FIS applied the ban Thursday from the date her provisional suspension started, to run through March 15, 2012. The 24-year-old Marek was previously suspended for two years by Poland's ski federation. FIS promotes parallel Alpine racing next season (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 3, 2010, 8:53 am] Alpine skiing will start next season with a new parallel-racing national team event on the glacier at Soelden, Austria. The International Ski Federation agreed Thursday to add the event where 16 teams, each of two men and two women, compete in a knockout bracket, with two skiers racing side-by-side on giant slalom courses. FIS sanctions Russian ski federation over doping (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: June 3, 2010, 7:28 am] The International Ski Federation has fined Russia's national skiing body 180,000 Swiss francs ($156,000; ?127,000) and ordered some coaches to be fired because of persistent doping by its athletes. FIS issued a "strong recommendation" Thursday that Russia install new leaders and coaches to create a doping-free ski team for its home 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. US skier Lanning to skip 2011 World Cup season (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: May 26, 2010, 5:15 pm] U.S. skier TJ Lanning will skip the 2011 World Cup season to focus on recovering from a downhill crash last November in Lake Louise, Alberta, that fractured his neck and dislocated his left knee. Lanning, 25, said in a news release Wednesday that it simply makes more sense "for me not to push it again." He plans on skiing again and hopes to make the U.S. Pinter to return to World Cup after doping ban (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: May 15, 2010, 7:13 am] Austrian cross country skier Jurgen Pinter will return to the World Cup circuit next season after the end of his four-year ban from the doping scandal at the 2006 Turin Olympics. Pinter told the Austrian Press Agency on Saturday that he has trained throughout the suspension and that "next year's world championships in Oslo are my goal." The Austrian Ski Federation has included Pinter... Vonn ready to begin training for ski season (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: May 13, 2010, 6:04 pm] Lindsey Vonn is still going full speed. The Olympic gold medalist has been all over the place since the end of ski season, walking the red carpet at the Academy of Country Music Awards, shooting commercials for her sponsors, attending fundraisers, appearing on Maxim's "Hot 100" list, taking part in a White House correspondents dinner and filming scenes for her favorite show,... Matt dropped from Austria's Alpine team (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: May 11, 2010, 5:46 am] Two-time slalom world champion Mario Matt has been dropped from Austria's Alpine team for next season, making his appearance in World Cup races unlikely. Austria men's head coach Mathias Berthold told national broadcaster ORF on Tuesday that Matt "will have to qualify (for World Cup races) in training ... US Ski Team names White women's speed coach (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: April 28, 2010, 10:44 am] The U.S. Ski Team has promoted Chip White to lead the women's speed squad after 14 seasons as an assistant coach. White takes over the position from Alex Hoedlmoser, who was recently named head coach of the women's Alpine team after Jim Tracy stepped down. The U.S. women had quite a showing at Whistler in February as Lindsey Vonn won gold in the downhill and bronze in the super-G, while Julia... Sweden's Paerson to continue racing (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: April 27, 2010, 11:56 am] Swedish Alpine skier Anja Paerson will continue racing on the World Cup circuit next season. The 29-year-old former Olympic champion was considering quitting after this season but now says she has decided to compete for at least one more year. Paerson says she feels "very inspired and motivated to keep going next year" and that her main goal is to win a gold medal at the world... Canadian Olympic skier Shona Rubens retires (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: April 27, 2010, 11:28 am] Two-time Olympic skier Shona Rubens is retiring after five seasons with Canada's Alpine team. The 23-year-old skier announced her retirement in a statement Tuesday. Rubens finished 12th in the super combined at the Vancouver Games, a career-best at the Olympics. Rubens also competed at the 2006 Turin Games. |