Former World ski champion Bruno Kernen broke his nose, tore knee ligaments and had concussions, when the Swiss went crashing down the Silvano Beltrametti course after badly landing a jump in the season ending World cup downhill. Kernen lost control on a jump, in the lower half of the course (considered the fastest part on [...]
Adam Malysz dominated at the Plancia flying hill in Slovenia, to win his second consecutive large hill ski jumping title to reclaim the overall World Cup lead. Competing in the first event since 2003, the 29-year-old, Polish ski jumper recorded 208.5-meter jump in the first round to break into the lead at the event. The [...]
Li Nina the Chinese freestyle aerial skier and the 2006 Winter Olympic silver medalist ended with 194.57 points to clinch the women’s freestyle aerials at the Asian Winter Games. Amidst dropping mercury and heavy snowfall at Beida Lake, the Chinese competitors have thus far rocked the show with Nina earning the tenth gold for their [...]
Here is a Super G stunner for all ski fans – Patrick Staudacher clocked 14:30 seconds to finish at the apex amid the professionals. Competing in only the first World championship race Staudacher has become the first Italian to win the men’s Super G title. The 26-year-old Italian bettered the former downhill Olympic champion Fritz [...]
With host of domestic experience she is one of the most celebrated and nerve-racking performer in skeleton sledding in the world – and bagging the Igls skeleton at the World’s she has demonstrated her supremacy at the event. Anja Huber was just outstanding in her ‘face front run’ the skeleton overpowering her closest competitor the [...]
Austria won the closing nations team event and knocked off hosts Sweden of the medals table at the World Alpine skiing championship – dominating the Super G and the slalom event. The Austrian contingents turned out the best in the contest, ending the two-week competition with nine medals comprising three golds, three silvers and three [...]
Austrian Marlies Schild, needed a mere eighth place in the second leg of the event to wrap the world title – the world silver medalist finished easily ahead of Sierra Nevada to bag the sixth win of the season and also the women’s World Cup slalom title. Winning the title Schild’s has become the first [...]
Austrian champion Renate Goetschl setting the fastest time in the training session ahead of the final downhill event of the season has heightened her prospects for the Overall title. Goetschl has already won the Super-G and the downhill titles but slid to the fourth in Overall standings over the weekend – despite, she does have [...]
To catch who’s crowned the ‘King of Skis’ you gotta travel to Japan this winter – it is only for the third time that the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship is scheduled outside Europe and for the first time in Asia. It will also be the first occasion when the Championship will partly be held [...]
In a groundbreaking debut decision, the International Olympic Committee banned six Austrian athletes on account of doping violation. The judgment came in a year post the incident, a doping indignity – that marred the Turin Winter Olympics. The verdict is a landmark: It is for the first time in the history that the IOC has [...]








