The WPST is making its return to Ajax with racing scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The event had originally been scheduled for Dec. 10-12, the tour’s season opener, but it was pushed back to January due to a lack of early-season snow.
Aspen, you’re beginning to look a lot like you should. Those pretty leaves are being replaced by white mountain tops, those chairlifts will soon be spinning and with glee winter will be upon us again. So get prepped with the top local storylines entering the winter sports competition season.
Tommy Biesemeyer experienced a dream so vivid that he just couldn’t shake it: He won the famed Hahnenkamm downhill race in Austria. Only recently retired, the 32-year-old ski racer from.
91st Luberhorn classic in Wengen, Switzerland, was cancelled earlier this week
Covid outbreak infected 60 at resort - half of the cases blamed on a single Briton
World Cup races moved to Kitzbuehel but Austrian officials have since moved the races again - now to Flachau - after British mutant strain discovered in Tyrol
Do YOU know the Briton blamed for the Wengen shutdown? Email ross.ibbetson@mailonline.co.uk
Mikaela Shiffrin competes in the 2017 World Cup Finals on Aspen Mountain. Photo by Anna Stonehouse/The Aspen Times.
In a year with so little going on, John Rigney was happy to offer the North American skiing community the chance to end the season with something positive. The Aspen Skiing Co. senior vice president sees the NorAm Finals, which Aspen will host this spring, as a positive and needed springboard into next winter’s Olympic season.
“We kind of knew there would be very few players in the space that would be entertaining the idea of hosting major events this year. It’s just the nature of this pandemic,” Rigney said Wednesday. “We thought if we could get this toward the end of the season it might be a great way to keep continuity in supporting athletic achievement, but also give these races a venue to do something meaningful during the competition season.”