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Ben Ritchie, holds his skis up in triumph after winning gold in the Slalom in Bansko, Bulgaria. Dr. Brad Washburn is back row far right side, celebrating with the Alpine ski team. Local orthopedic surgeon, Brad Washburn, accompanied the Men’s US Alpine Ski Team to the Junior World Alpine Ski Championships in Bansko, Bulgaria March 3-10. Washburn explained, “Last month I was contacted to provide medical coverage for the US Alpine Ski Team to the Junior World Championships in Bulgaria. This was a week-long event that was filled with some incredible accomplishments, including two gold medal...

April 6, 2021 Denver University’s Tobias Kogler, first, University of Utah’s Joachim Bakken Lien, second, and U.S. Ski Team athlete Bridger Gile, third. Photo: Steven Kornreich/U.S. Ski Team. On day two of the U.S. Alpine Championships at Aspen Highlands, it was an international giant slalom podium, with Denver University’s Tobias Kogler (Austria) in first, University of Utah’s Joachim Bakken Lien (Norway) in second, and U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Bridger Gile in third.  It was another early morning for the athletes, staff, and race organizers, and the conditions were challenging, ...

Ritchie earns inaugural national title in Aspen Steven Kornreich - U.S. Ski Team Under the sunshine at Aspen Highlands, U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete and 2021 World Junior Slalom Champion Ben Ritchie emerged victorious at the slalom kickoff of the U.S. Alpine Championships. Middlebury College’s Erik Arvidsson was second, and Garret Driller rounded out the podium in third.  Due to the forecasted warm weather, organizers made the decision to move the program up, with an early 7:30 a.m. first run start. The decision proved to be a good move, as the sun burned through the clouds at the end o...

Photo by Jason Connolly / Jason Connolly Photography Summit High School Alpine ski assistant coaches John McMurtry and Dylan Nicoletti heard the chatter among the 70-plus high school boys skiers, who were getting ready to race on a menacing 62-gate slalom course Thursday at Loveland Valley Ski Area. It was a course McMurtry, a former U.S. Alpine Ski Team coach, said was “like a World Cup” with “really hard turns” where “you don’t feel good going down.” “It seemed like the attitude up top was, ‘We’re cranking it out,’” Nicoletti said. “You’re not going to like it. I...

Shiffrin bumped to third in GS as Vlhova wins in Jasna Getty Images Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova returned the favor on Sunday, knocking Mikaela Shiffrin of Edwards down to third in Sunday’s giant slalom on Vlhova’s home snow in Jasna, Slovakia. A day earlier, Shiffrin had bumped Vlhova for the slalom win. Shiffrin was leading Sunday’s GS after the first run but was knocked down to the third and final step of the podium by both Vlhova’s stellar second run for the win and a mind-blowing second run by Alice Robinson of New Zealand for second.