Lindsey Vonn's greatness and influence transcend alpine skiing

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. —  As a little girl, Kaillie Humphries plastered posters of Austrian ski legend Hermann Maier and American Bode Miller on her bedroom wall. “I was a ski racer, and I looked up to the heroes of my sport,” says Humphries, who switched to bobsleigh and won two Olympic gold medals (so far) for […]

Verbier: Take a brisk saddle at the world-famous Swiss Alpine ski resort

PH Verbier is an Alpine village in Switzerland’s Valais Canton As a fan of cycling on slightly less steep terrain, like Norfolk for instance, I’m apprehensive at first about getting in the saddle in Verbier, the world-famous Swiss Alpine ski resort.  But our bicycles are all electric, which makes them a great way to explore […]

Your Summer Eurotrip Needs Slovenia's Picture-Perfect Alpine Town

When the morning mist burns off, the Gothic Church of the Assumption, perched atop tiny Bled Island, emerges from Lake Bled like some kind of mythical freshwater creature surfacing to breathe. It’s an inspiring sight, which Iztok Čop, a Slovenian gold medalist rower who’s competed in five Olympics, has seen on “his home lake” many […]

Road to the Olympic Games: Bobsleigh, skeleton, alpine & freestyle skiing

Click on the video player above to watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. Coverage begins with action from the men’s giant slalom and women’s slalom events at the alpine skiing World Cup finals in Aspen, Colo. Next up at 3:30 p.m. ET is the […]

Alpine skiing: World Cup finals

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Road to the Olympic Games: Snowboarding, alpine & freestyle skiing

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Road to the Olympic Games: Alpine & freestyle skiing

Click on the video player above to watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly show spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. Saturday’s coverage begins at 3 p.m. ET with the women’s World Cup downhill race from Jeongseong, South Korea. Next up we have a pair of World Cup freestyle skiing […]

World Cup alpine skiing: Men's giant slalom

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