Page 90 - Alpine Skiing News Today

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Rosi Mittermaier, who won downhill and slalom gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics and narrowly missed a sweep of all three women's Alpine skiing events at the Games, has died.

Winter sports enthusiasts flock to this northwestern Colorado resort town in the Yampa Valley, a spot that is typically blessed with an abundant blanket of low-moisture snow.

The first weekend of the new year has the first full skiing weekend of the high school season.

Skiers in the Alps are reporting the worst conditions in recent memory, and there’s no guarantee the situation will improve soon

Skiers are reporting bare slopes and slushy pistes, and there’s no guarantee the situation will improve soon

Countries across the continent saw the warmest start to the year ever measured. The weather has forced ski resorts to close trails, with sparser than usual snow cover.

Skiing hotspots hit by unseasonably warm weather are offering go-karting or tobogganing on rails to draw in punters

Study found that by 2100 much snowfall will instead be rain hindering a 100-day season as well as artificial snow cannons topping up slopes

Two others were left critically injured after separate crashes in the same spot as authorities warned of dangerous conditions

After a snowboard accident left her paralyzed from the waist down, Shelby Estocado is chasing her dream of joining the US Paralympic ski team