Giant slalom is considered a technical ... The team event features 16 teams of four competitors (two men and two women, in addition to a maximum of two reserves) in a bracket-style, single-elimination ...

Olympic alpine skiing downhiller Breezy ... the American skier won the last slalom of the season at the Alpine World Cup finals. Marco Odermatt won Saturday's giant slalom and moved two away ...

American star Mikaela Shiffrin secured another giant slalom ... (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup in Soldeu, Andorra. Swiss Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami clinched the women's super-G Crystal ...

Speed event: The fastest alpine ski events: downhill and super-G. Straddling: A mistake where a skier passes over a gate with one ski on one side of the pole and the other ski on the opposite side.

ALPINE SKIING: Broadcast Schedule After that, the World Cup visits Åre, Sweden, for a giant slalom and a slalom on March 9-10. "We knew Åre was *likely* going to be the target, but didn’t rule ...

Sweden's Sandra Naeslund held on to win gold in women's skicross on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics ... super-G, giant slalom and slalom -- marking her long-awaited return to speed skiing.

By Bill Pennington Vonn announced that she would compete in the super combined and the giant slalom ... the 2014 Olympic Alpine competition. Chemmy Alcott competed in the women’s downhill ...

Zak Carrick-Smith continued his historic run at the Youth Olympic Games in South Korea with a second alpine skiing ... slalom title on Thursday, adding to his combined competition gold and giant ...

Special Olympics USA is sending 101 athletes ... Lockwood specializes in alpine skiing and will compete in super slalom, giant slalom and super giant slalom. She prefers the latter two events ...

Sweden's Stenmark, who won two Olympic golds and five Alpine World Ski Championships gold medals in slalom and giant slalom, ...