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Cross-Country 17 Feb 2021 The countdown to the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf begins. From 24th February to 7th March, the world elite of Cross-Country skiing will meet in the south of Germany. After an intensive World Cup season, the focus is now on the World Champion titles to be awarded.  The competition schedule is set and will begin traditionally with the qualification race of 5km/10km F on Wednesday, 24th February. Sharing the emotions, success and defeats of athletes with the crowd of spectators has always been an extraor...

18 Feb 21 Among the more unlikely nations of the 70 entering teams at the current Alpine Skiing World Championships in Cortina, Italy is a team of four from the Caribbean island of Haiti. “Haiti Ski is carrying a message of hope for the local population of Haiti which is rebuilding itself since the earthquake in 2010. Their objective: to prove that everything is possible by surpassing themselves during a sporting event at very high level, just as Haitians surpass themselves to continue to live in face of difficulties,” a spokesperson for the team said. Other nations sending athletes...

Alpine skiing: Bassino, Liensberger and Faivre are first parallel champions Reuters 16/02/2021 © Reuters/LEONHARD FOEGER FIS Alpine World Ski Championships CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Marta Bassino shared an historic women's parallel gold with Austrian Katharina Liensberger at the Alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday, as hosts Italy celebrated their first medal since the competition began last Thursday. © Reuters/LEONHARD FOEGER FIS Alpine World Ski Championships Mathieu Faivre won France a first gold of the championships in the men's event. The events, in which pai...

Norway's reigning men's International Ski Federation Alpine Ski World Cup champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, has been ruled out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury.

Special to the Daily Sheika Gramshammer and her husband, Pepi, shared the Vail Valley Citizen of the Year honor in 1989. Special to the Daily For her dynamic and selfless contributions to the community, Sheika Gramshammer has been named the 2021 Vail Valley Citizen of the Year. The honor has been handed out since 1981 to deserving citizens who have provided broad support, vision, and leadership to the betterment of the community and its many nonprofit organizations. Gramshammer was a co-recipient of the award with her husband Pepi in 1989, the year that she and her husband helped play an inst...