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Olympic giant slalom champ Viktoria Rebensburg announced her retirement Tuesday, citing a February injury she
SR Staff ReportSep 01, 2020Following the 1950 FIS World Championships in Aspen, journalist and Alta Ski Area founder James
Karina SchwartznauAug 31, 2020On Aug. 25, Nicole Mah, a sophomore alpine skier for the University of Alaska-Anchorage, rallied with the support of her coaches and team to fight against ski team elimination from the UAA athletics department, once again.
Karina SchwartznauAug 31, 2020While the U.S. Ski Team athletes were hard at work with on-snow training at Mount Hood in Oregon this summer, U.S. Ski & Snowboard staff were busy finding ways to get many of those athletes into Europe for training this fall.
Karina SchwartznauAug 29, 2020In his second contribution to our ongoing development series, longtime coach Aldo Radamus takes on the elephant in the room: cost.
Aldo RadamusAug 28, 2020Former SRM Editor-in-Chief C.J. Feehan shares some insight from her experience living and coaching in Norway — a nation whose sport model is regarded as one of the best in the world and won’t easily be replicated.
C.J. FeehanAug 27, 2020Josef Fischer, recognized as an Honorary Councilor of Commerce in Austria, and the son of
SR Staff ReportAug 27, 2020Many factors go into each athlete’s development, especially in a sport like ski racing that has a mind-boggling array of uncontrollable elements. When they all come together it is a minor miracle.
Edie Thys MorganAug 26, 2020Like most ski teams, Alta Badia Ladinia Ski Team was experiencing a dramatic dropout rate starting at U16. While this is a shared problem in most sports, in the peculiar mountain environment, it can have disruptive socio-economic consequences.
...Aug 25, 2020An in-depth interview with the man who dethroned the Austrians and brought home the Nations Cup for Switzerland. Want to know how he did it? This article, brought to us by veteran coach Peter Lange, takes a deep dive into the Swiss system.
Peter LangeAug 24, 2020In Mr. Leever’s essay, Exploring North American development — what are we missing?, he points
Douglas BarneyAug 24, 2020While the FIS Alpine World Cup tour recently announced it will not come to North America this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Pro Ski Tour still plans to roll out a schedule of events in the United States.
SR Staff ReportAug 24, 2020In a world full of unknowns and uncertainties, canceling the Xfinity Birds of Prey FIS World Cup in Beaver Creek has been a tough pill to swallow. But officials at the Vail Valley Foundation (VVF), the event's organizer, believe it was the right decision.
Karina SchwartznauAug 23, 2020The four-time Olympian was set to make a return to downhill ski racing at Lake Louise, the course that was the site of his dramatic training run crash in 2018 edition. He hasn’t seen racing action since.
Patrick GibsonAug 23, 2020All of the greats have one thing in common: a lot of time on snow during the golden age of skill development, which is roughly from age eight to puberty for girls and nine to puberty for boys.
Kirk DwyerAug 21, 2020The revised World Cup calendar will be approved following the FIS Technical Meetings, which are scheduled from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. The schedule will be posted on the FIS website on Oct. 3.
Karina SchwartznauAug 21, 2020After extended discussions between U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the Canadian Snowsports Association, FIS, and the
SR Staff ReportAug 20, 2020The University of Alaska Anchorage announced it will reconfigure UAA athletics in order to preserve the program's long-term viability, according to the school. Significant reductions in state funding have dramatically shifted the university's fiscal situation.
SR Staff ReportAug 20, 2020When Alpine Canada stated its intention to become a top-three skiing nation by the 2026 Olympics, they must have known the daunting challenge ahead. It's a challenge that is fully understood by Phil McNichol, Alpine Canada’s high performance director and former U.S. ski team head coach.
Gordie BowlesAug 19, 2020There is no question that the United States should have a welcoming, affordable, fulfilling and growing sport system and expect to consistently field one of the most competitive and deepest national teams in the world. Why, then, is this not always the case?
Aldo RadamusAug 18, 2020In our second summer series, Ski Racing Media will create a community discussion around the
Dan LeeverAug 17, 2020I have seen a greater and greater emphasis on more and more gate training at the expense of free skiing. The end product is a racer who can ski. My observation over many years is that a skier who can race will always beat a racer who can ski.
John DouglasAug 17, 2020A look inside the trials and tribulations faced by Canadian alpine teams this summer amid travel restrictions and the COVID-19 pandemic, plus additional thoughts from Phil McNichol, Alpine Canada’s high performance alpine director.
Gordie BowlesAug 14, 2020After becoming the first Italian woman to win a World Cup overall title, Federica Brignone has been thrown a COVID-19 curveball, but she's making the best of it.
Mackenzie Moran & Francesca CurtoloAug 13, 2020With the FIS announcing earlier this month postponement of the 52nd annual Congress until the
SR Staff ReportAug 13, 2020The agreement provides WAVE.tv with access and rights to leverage World Pro Ski Tour’s archived dual-format professional ski racing footage to develop content that will be shared across WAVE.tv’s portfolio of 18 media brands.
SR Staff ReportAug 12, 2020Ski academies and clubs are doing everything they can to adapt to the pandemic — from weekly COVID tests to independent travel. But among it all is a silver lining: increased enrollment.
Connor W. DavisAug 11, 2020World Pro Ski Tour Race Brakes brings us words from the CEO. Watch this week’s
SR Staff ReportAug 11, 2020Bridger Gile jokes that he hit his high point when he was a kid. Indeed, his accomplishments on skis were jaw-droppingly bountiful for someone barely out of kindergarten.
Shauna FarnellAug 08, 2020After sustaining a season-threatening Achilles tendon injury while training at Mount Hood earlier this week, Steven Nyman is looking ahead and mapping out another comeback.
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