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None of the Alpine ski racers who’ll be zooming down the mountain at the Beijing Olympics ever has tried the slope that’ll be used with medals at stake. Not yet,

None of the Alpine ski racers who’ll be zooming down the mountain at the Beijing...

None of the Alpine ski racers who’ll be zooming down the mountain at the Beijing...

Fake snow being used for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, creates an icier, harder skiing surface which is more treacherous for take-offs and landings for the events taking place in hills near to the capital.

After her first Winter Games triumph as a teenager in 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin gushed about “dreaming of the next Olympics (and) winning five gold medals” — which not only didn’t

After her first Winter Games triumph as a teenager in 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin gushed about “dreaming of the next Olympics (and) winning five gold medals” — which not only didn’t

WENGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde denied Marco Odermatt a second successive World Cup victory on home snow as he beat t...

WENGEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde denied Marco Odermatt a second successive World Cup victory on home snow as he beat t...

The International Ski Federation's chief race director for the men's Alpine Ski World Cup Markus Waldner has admitted that the ill-fated slalom competition in Zagreb should not have been allowed to begin and criticised the process that led to the decision as "not acceptable".

After her first Winter Games triumph as a teenager in 2014, Mikaela Shiffrin gushed about “dreaming of the next Olympics (and) winning five gold medals” — which not only didn’t happen, of course, but wasn’t even possible because the American ended up not competing in every Alpine event four years later.