For the first time in more than two years, Olympian Bode Miller got a chance to stand on the medal podium this weekend. The 31-year-old Olympic Silver Medalist (Salt Lake City), two-time world champion, and last year’s overall World Cup leader, was just beat out by France’s Jean-Baptiste Grange in the first Giant Slalom of […]
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For those of us eager for the Winter Olympic Games to get here, there was a teaser this weekend as the season began for world cup skiing at the FIS Audi Alpine World Cup event in Solden Austria. Results included:
Men’s Giant Slalom: Daniel Albrecht (Switzerland), Didier Cuche (Switzerland), Ted Ligety […]
It may have been a lovely, warm fall weekend in Lake Placid, New York this past weekend, but that didn’t stop the US Ski Team from competing in the 2009 US Nordic Championships. The venue, the site of the 1980 Winter Games was equipped with a plastic landing strip for the ski jumping competition and […]
Twenty-four-year-old alpine skiier, Julia Mancuso won the Gold Medal in Turin in the Giant Slalom event…and she’s hungry for more in Vancouver. Mancuso also has four World Cup victories to her credit and has a run named for her in Squaw Valley. Here’s a look at this defending Olympic Medalist:
Tags: giant slalom, julia mancuso, […]
Canadian skier, Allison Forsyth, was forced to announce her retirement today due to the chronic pain that continues to linger since she suffered a knee injury during a training session at the 2006 Turin Olympic Winter Games.
She made her announcement yesterday at Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park. The 29-year old, who won a bronze […]
Park City, UT - It was a match made on the U.S. Ski Team. Two-time Olympian Lindsey Kildow (Vail, CO) and Team alum Thomas Vonn married Sept. 29 at Deer Valley Resort’s Silver Lake Lodge. A fresh dusting of early season snow on the mountains provided the perfect backdrop for the skiers’ nuptials.
(Source)
Skiers tie the […]
It’s not a common practice here in Light the Torch but I thought I’d share some of the things — from rowing to sailing, triathlon to skiing —that’s online right now.
A SINGLE-MINDED PURSUIT OF GLORY
Irish Rowing team to compete in opening World Cup regatta
ISAF World Sailing Rankings
FIS releases 2007-08 sport calendars
Triathlete Robertson to return […]
25 April 2007 - The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today unanimously decided to declare permanently ineligible six athletes from the Austrian biathlon and cross-country skiing teams who competed at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games (see full details below). This decision excludes them from taking part in any future Olympic […]
I’m a tad bit confused.
Will Bode Miller be competing or not competing in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics?
To quote Union Leader,
“I’m in the process of making a decision about participating in World Cup next year,” Miller added. “The Olympics are a long way off. I’d have to find some motivation.”
The article somehow suggests that […]
Three-time Olympian Kirsten Clark, the only skier to win four consecutive U.S. downhill titles, will retire after this month’s Alpine championships.
(Forbes)
She’s been in the competitive skiing circuit for the last thirteen years.
The Olympic Games she participated in are the following:
Nagano 1998
Salt Lake City 2002
Torino 2006
Clark won the silver medal in the super-G during the 2003 […]
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