Extreme Skiing

Lars Berger had never before finished at the podium in the World Cup - the Norwegian very eminently clocking 35:50 in the 15 km freestyle, bagged his maiden cross-country win at the World Championship in Sapporo. Leaving all the favorites...

Austria led through the first round of the team event at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide. Only two men and two women raced one super-G each in the morning and slalom heats latter in the day at the Silvano Beltrametti course, while the top...

He refuses for the slalom and is forced back in the super combined - but clocking the fastest in the opening downhill run, the speed specialist has taken to the apex of the men's super combined. Didier Cuche clocked 1:29:89 to remain the fastest...

Winning the super-G at the US Alpine Championship in Alaska, Bode Miller tied for the men's record with the ninth national title of his career. A thorough professional, Miller for whom the national event is a mere child's play described himself of..

Garmisch-Partenkirchen has developed into a Ski paradise of late, the German resort is to host the Alpine Skiing World Cup events this season - but weather is playing spoilsport here as heavy snowfall has forced the event into delay. Despite the..

He faced an early exit out of the giant slalom - but managed a sweet revenge over his younger brother Philipp (who won the Olympic PSG final) winning the parallel slalom at the World Championships. Simon Schoch was unparalleled on course; he...

The home fans were elated, when Ole Einar Bjoerndalen narrowly triumphed over Raphael Poiree in an epic 15-km mass start biathlon race in Holmenkollen, Oslo. The Norwegian edging out his French opponent with the slightest of margin, claimed the...

What is the craziest bet that you have herd or ever made - could have been anything, but I guarantee none would be as extreme as this: to make it and then implement it in public is what puts this at the top of them all. Rainer Schoenfelder, a...

Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong calls himself the snow leopard but he surely didn't leap like one at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Are - the Ghanaian lacked pace in the qualification race for the giant slalom in the men's event. Kwame was a...

Owing to a recurrent knee trouble the veteran Bode Miller had refused to compete in the downhill event - however now the schedule for the American seems stiffer as he has decided to compete in all five events at the World Championships. The...