Worlds: U.S. announces squad for team event

As high winds and continuing snow hammered Val d’Isere on an off day, Tuesday, of the World Ski Championships the U.S. Ski Team announced the participants for Wednesday’s team event.As high winds and continuing snow hammered Val d’Isere on an off day, Tuesday, of the World Ski Championships the U.S. Ski Team announced the participants for Wednesday’s team event.

Germany, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and France have signed on to participate in the event which will feature four runs of super G and four runs of slalom with place points added and the low score winning.

The U.S. reports its team will feature Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, Jimmy Cochran, Andrew Weibrecht, Tim Jitloff and Hailey Duke.