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Skiing

"I feel like I'm not moving around as much," Kim said. "I feel like I'm much more steady because I literally can't move this arm as much as I normally would."

Moments after crossing the line, he ripped off his shirt, flexed to the cameras, dropped on to the snow face down and pumped his arms in triumph. The move was not spontaneous, though. It was a long-planned tribute to the Austrian skiing legend Hermann Maier, Karl's childhood hero, who once celebrated in much the same way. He was one of the greatest skiers of all time in Austria and he once did this, Karl said. I always wanted to do the same.

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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- American ski racer Breezy Johnson won the Olympic downhill Sunday with a hard-charging run on a day marred by teammate Lindsey Vonn's crash that saw her being taken off the mountain in a helicopter. Johnson was the sixth racer and found speed with a risk-taking trip along the iconic Olympia delle Tofana course on a sunny day in Cortina.

Maia Schwinghammer didn't need a medal run to become part of the Olympic conversation in Italy. The 24-year-old Canadian freestyle skier from Saskatoon found herself in the spotlight after her father went viral during a chance, on-the-street interview with CBC Sports in Livigno. Rick Schwinghammer was stopped by reporter Ariel Helwani, and the light exchange gave way to a deeply personal moment when he mentioned his daughter was competing.

Aicher told German broadcaster ZDF that the course had been aggressive over every jump, and that she had initially not been able to work out how good her performance had been. "It just felt absolutely wild. Every jump kind of tore me apart," she said. "To be honest, I didn't think it would work out after the run." After learning about the medal, Aicher at first expressed frustration at narrowly missing gold before realizing the scale of her achievement.

The sun rises late in Cortina d'Ampezzo, like everything else in this little alpine town. It's gone eight o'clock in the morning by the time the daylight has made it over the high peaks to the east, and it's another two hours from that before the Olympic day gets under way. It's slow out, as if everyone's still sleeping off the night before, when the town was out cheering for the athletes as they made their parade around the square.

Out of World Cup action for 14 months after whereabouts failures, she dropped on to Birds of Prey as bib No 32 in the 45-racer field all women for the first time in the history of the legendary venue. With a few bends of her reconstructed knees, she snapped through the timing wand, charged through the Abyss (one of Birds of Prey's steepest pitches) and kept carving her way through the 1.7-mile (2.7km) drop's icy chop.

The Sydneysider fell on the final jump of training and was taken off on a stretcher from the course on Friday, posting later in the day she'd made the call to withdraw. I've made the decision along with my medical and support team to pull from Slopestyle tomorrow in order to reset, refocus and channel my energy into Big Air, Thomas posted on Instagram. I am doing all good and am keen to get training for Big Air.

If you were to read a book on how you should ski, she executes it near flawlessly, two-time Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety said. Mikaela executes on all the most technical basis like a textbook. For example: She's a rhythmic racer, almost hearing the melodic beat of a song as she weaves through the gates along a slalom course. That almost effortless form helped the 30-year-old American lock up the slalom title on Jan. 25,

Ice skating world champion Alysa Liu glides effortlessly across the ice in all-black attire accented with a turquoise waistband. With every pirouette she lands, her bangs and ponytail bounce along. Liu, who was raised in the East Bay, is at the Oakland Ice Center, her home base practice facility. It's May 2025, and the skater is fresh off winning gold at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships held in Boston in March.

Nearly 60 people were rescued after a chairlift broke down at a ski area in Lyme, N.H. on Thursday. The rescue took place on the Winslow Mountain Quad at Dartmouth Skiway, where first responders evacuated 59 people over a period of 90 minutes, according to a statement by Aaron Rich, Lyme Fire Chief. The rescue happened before dark and one person was transported to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) for treatment after the rescued skiers were checked for cold-weather injuries, according to Rich.

The most humbling thing is being at the top of the run with the Paralympic team, who are mostly visually impaired, and they just disappear into the distance while I'm still putting my boots on. As performance director of GB Snowsport, nevertheless, Myall's job is to give the nation's talented crop of snowboarders, freestyle, alpine and mogul skiers a decisive edge when the Games commence in Milan next week.

Park City, Utah, isn't just a ski town-it's a full-blown mountain playground that delivers year-round adventure, world-class dining, and a healthy dose of Hollywood glam every January. But whether you're carving Deer Valley's legendary slopes, catching a Sundance screening, fly-fishing in alpine streams, or just here for the mountain air and Main Street's buzzy aprés scene, where you stay matters.