Everything to Know About Alpine Skiing at Winter Olympics
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Carve: A crisp turn referring to the technique used in Alpine ski racing. When carving, a skier turns their skis onto their edges, a metal strip fixed along the bottom of the ski, which can cut through ice or snow and allow skiers to perform precise turns necessary for a fast run on a race course.
By Alan Baldwin CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin won women's slalom gold, and her first Olympic medal since 2018, with a dominant performance in the final Alpine ski race of the Milano Cortina Games on Wednesday and then spoke emotionally of what it really meant to her.
Norway's Atle Lie McGrath is the current leader in the FIS World Cup standings, but he'll face tough competition from giant slalom gold medalist Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Brazil. Start Times: Run 1 (4 a.m. ET), Run 2 (7:30 a.m. ET) Atle Lie McGrath and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen are the primary names to watch in the men's slalom.
Just miles from Cortina’s Olympic runs, Alto Adige’s winemakers harness snowmelt, soaring elevations, and tradition to craft Alpine wines built for endurance.
By Alan Baldwin CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin has more records to break, more wins to celebrate and surely more medals to drape around her neck. But the most successful Alpine skier in World Cup history,
Emily DiDonato fully embraced après-ski energy in her Tuesday7 Instagram post while leaning into luxe winter layering. Captioned “Ski comeback coming 2027 but for now après only,” the 34-year-old model traded ski boots for statement outerwear as she relaxed in a snowy escape.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s eight-year Olympic medal drought is over. The American skiing standout has put in two dominant runs in gorgeous conditions amid the jagged peaks of the Dolomites to show why she is regarded by many as the greatest Alpine skier of all time.
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Electric Alpine A110 to share wild underpinnings with Renault 5 Turbo 3E
The eagerly awaited electric successor to the Alpine A110 sports car, scheduled for release next year, will adopt the same platform and critical mechanicals as the extreme Renault 5 Turbo 3E mega-hatch.