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Croatia's Kostelic favored in super-combined

Ivica Kostelic is not someone who keeps his feelings to himself, and it was less than a month ago when he lashed out at skiing's new combined format. Complete Story...

Ski federation president not in panic mode yet

The International Ski Federation isn't ready to panic over the Whistler weather woes.

Cross-country, Nordic skiers suspended for 5 days

An Estonian cross-country skier and a Russian Nordic combined competitor have been barred from competing for five days at the Vancouver Olympics after pre-games tests detected too-high hemoglobin levels.

Canada's Brydon works to make skiing mean more

It was after the Salt Lake City Games eight years ago when Emily Brydon started questioning the meaning of it all.

Men's downhill at high risk of postponement

The men's downhill that is to open Alpine skiing at the Olympics on Saturday is at high risk of being postponed.

Miller wins downhill bronze behind Defago, Svindal

Bode Miller seemed oddly silent riding the lift to the mountaintop alongside U.S. teammate Marco Sullivan for Monday's Olympic downhill.

First Olympic delay: Women's super-combined

Snow conditions forced the first event delay at the Vancouver Olympics on Friday, postponing the women's super-combined Alpine ski race that had been scheduled for Sunday.

Men's, women's downhill training canceled

The men's and women's Olympic downhill training runs scheduled for Friday have been canceled because of overnight rain.

Picabo Street can feel Lindsey Vonn's shin pain

Picabo Street can feel Lindsey Vonn's pain.

Vonn using painkillers, cheese to treat shin

Lindsey Vonn has tried just about everything to heal a shin that she injured during pre-Olympics training in Austria.

Ski courses have it all: snow, fog, rain and mush

His goggles splattered with rain, his teammates still on the course training, Nate Roberts bailed to the athletes' lounge and started peeling off the soaking layers.

Men hold downhill training; fog halts women's runs

The Olympic men's downhill stands a chance of going off on schedule Saturday. The women still face problems for their first race, Sunday's super-combined.

Vonn's shin feeling effects of bumpy course

Clearly, Lindsey Vonn's badly bruised right shin still hurts.

US skier Stacey Cook crashes in downhill training

Stacey Cook was released from a clinic with pain and stiffness but no major injuries hours after crashing during the opening women's Olympic downhill training run Thursday.

Vonn's shin passes test of slalom training session

Lindsey Vonn went through a rigorous slalom training session Sunday, passing the toughest test yet for her bruised right shin.

Weather prompts schedule squeeze on downhill runs

Bad weather at Whistler has helped create Olympic history in Alpine skiing two days before the first medal is even scheduled to be awarded.

Bode Miller says the Olympics drew him back

It was his apparent neglect for the Olympics that pushed many people to turn away from Bode Miller in Turin four years ago. Yet Miller has now revealed that it was the lure of the games that brought him back to skiing.

Fog forces men's downhill training to be canceled

Fog forced the first men's downhill training run to be canceled Wednesday after only 42 of 87 scheduled racers had completed the Olympic course.

Vonn may test ailing shin in Thursday training run

Before the Olympics even start, Lindsey Vonn has gone from a favorite to win multiple medals to a question mark of how many, if any, races she'll even ski.

Lindsey Vonn reveals serious injury to shin

Lindsey Vonn’s quest for five Alpine skiing medals may be in serious jeopardy because of a serious shin injury suffered a week ago in training, the skier revealed Tuesday.

Snow forces changes to Alpine training at Whistler

With a series of storm fronts rolling in off the Pacific, Vancouver Games men's Alpine race officials pushed up the start of the first downhill training session on Wednesday in a bid to ensure this weekend's opening race starts on schedule.

Strained relationship with father for top US skier

The Vancouver Olympics are shaping up to be Lindsey Vonn's shining moment, the apex of a career that began years ago when her father introduced her to skiing. He saw enough talent in his daughter to move the whole family to Colorado.

Canadian Alpine team brimming with confidence

Manuel Osborne-Paradis isn't shying away from the attention and high expectations of an entire nation as the Canadian Alpine ski team prepares for the Vancouver Games.

Vonn's SI cover: Sexist or not?
Source: The Denver Post

Not just because she's attractive, but because of the power and beauty the image projects. Set in her downhill tuck position, with the snow, mountains and setting sun, Vonn is an athletic vision.

DAWN.COM | Sport | Pakistani skier qualifies for Vancouver 2010
Source: dawn.com

Yes, you read that headline correctly. A Pakistan man has qualified for the Winter Olympics. Ok, so this isn't like the Jamaican Bobsled team qualifying at the 1988 Olympics but it isn't far from that.

Practical Traveler - Getting Back to Family Values
Source: The New York Times

HOPING that this ski season will be better than last year's, resorts around the country are banking on families to help them bounce back, with many offering new programs and après-ski activities designed specifically with children in mind.

Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski Town
Source: The New York Times

High-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years.

SKI Magazine Skiers Life List
Source: SKI Magazine

For skiers, this is a good list to live your life by.

Vermont 3-10-09

Vermont 3-10-09 Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 Do we know the people around us? My wife and I went to Okemo ski area on Sunday so she could ski with friends on Monday.

Good News Wednesday - Bova Slopes - A Lost Ski Area - Discovered While Riding

I went with some friends to Allegany State Park riding snowmobiles on Friday. The conditions were outstanding.

Winter had it's Vacation-Get Back to Work Now!

Well, we were tooling right along having a great winter-lots of snowmobiling, the ski areas had made their annual projections by January 15th, people riding snowmbiles were riding from home instead of trailering to area far north that had snow. Then DISASTER hit.

Swiss skier Albrecht awakens from coma
Source: Universal Sports

Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht woke up from an induced coma, three weeks after crashing during a downhill training run. Albrecht's condition has improved significantly over the past 24 hours, the Innsbruck University hospital said in a statement Thursday.

Gunman: 'If You're Not A Christian You're Going To Die'
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7

BOULDER, Colo. -- A 24-year-old ski lift operator who fatally shot the general manager of the Eldora ski area was determined to kill co-workers who weren't Christian, according to court records obtained Thursday.

Sexy snowboards get chilly reception
Source: msnbc.com

Emblazoned with Playboy models from the 1970s and garish images of self-mutilation, two edgy new lines of snowboards have many hot under the collar despite winter's chill.

Althaus could face manslaughter charges over ski accident death
Source: thelocal.de

Thuringia's state premier Dieter Althaus will most likely be charged with negligent manslaughter after the ski accident in which he and a woman collided – and she died.

Skier Left Dangling Half-Naked On Vail Lift
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7

What a way to start the New Year. A lift mishap left a skier at Vail hanging from the lift, half naked.

Man hangs half naked from Vail chairlift
Source: KUSA-TV

In my opinion, it's a huge lack of respect to expose the man this way!

Police hunt hit-and-run skier in Italy after girl sees father killed
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Police in the Italian Alps are checking ski passes, viewing security videos and questioning holidaymakers in the hunt for a mystery skier who came down the slopes too fast on Christmas morning and collided with a man, 51, leaving him dying from a head injury in front of his 12-ye …

Skiers trapped as Canada gondola collapses
Source: The Times

More than 50 people have been evacuated from a gondola at Whistler ski resort in Canada after a tower supporting the cables partially collapsed last night. One of the gondola cars hit a bus shelter, while two more were left dangling when the tower collapsed.

Burton co-founders defend snowboards in Burlington, Vermont
Source: Burlington Free Press

Burton co-founders defend snowboardsBurton Snowboards co-founders Jake and Donna Carpenter said Monday that reaction to a controversial line of snowboards has been overblown and defended the company's support of women.

The First Snow Has Arrived!
Source: cannonmt.com

The First Snow Has Arrived! The first snow of the season landed on Cannon and Mt. Lafayette on Friday, Oct. 3rd...winter will be here before you know it!

Elmhurst College rallies in support of Muslim student attacked by masked man
Source: Chicago Tribune

A masked man attacked a female 19 year old Muslim student at Elmhurst College.

Hidden Valley to close, owner says
Source: The St Louis Post Dispatch

Hidden Valley applied for a permit to build a snow tubing area and parking lot to accommodate it. Wildwood's planning and zoning commission last week told the resort it would need to pay a $252,000 fee to expand and build more parking.

Mountain Resorts Take Renewable Energy To The Next Level
Source:

Several mountains are taking the next step and making significant investments in their own, on-site renewable energy projects.

Being Bode: Young Man of the Mountain
Source: nhmagazine.com

Here's what you might think you know about 2008 World Cup ski champion Bode Miller: the Franconia, New Hampshire, native grew up in the woods with kerosene lamps and an outhouse, went to school only occasionally, and was raised by wolves.

Aspen Mountain Re-Opening for June Skiing
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7

Skiing and riding will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Ajax Express chairlift through June 15. Seeder's Note: Everyone in Colorado is used to A Basin being open through June and, once, until August. But for Aspen Mountain to re-open is huge. Sweet.

Denver TSA modeling airport security after ski lanes
Source: KUSA-TV

The Transportation Security Administration In Denver says it is adopting an experimental security lane system that labels lanes like Colorado ski runs. Creating separate lanes for categories such as Families, Expert Travelers and Special Needs.

WCSN.com: News
Source: WCSN

Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger was in a stable condition on Tuesday after undergoing an emergency amputation of his lower left leg. Watch video attached, Warning it is a little graphic.