By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Well, that didn’t go as planned.That bronze medal Lindsey Vonn won during Tuesday’s super-G at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships here at the Beav’ is starting to look better and better.Lindsey finished fifth in downhill?This is not what we all envisioned when Beaver Creek/Vail got the Worlds in
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK – Unless you’re Lindsey Vonn, recognized wherever you go in Vail and Beaver Creek, being a professional ski racer for the sport’s biggest event is a fairly relaxing affair in the United States.In the midst of at least 10,000 people in attendance at the women’s FIS Alpine World Ski Championship [&helli
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By Chris Freud 1 MAZE Tina SLO 1:45.89 2 FENNINGER Anna AUT 1:45.91 3 GUT Lara SUI 1:46.23 4 SCHMIDHOFER N. AUT 1:46.92 5 VONN Lindsey USA 1:46.94 6 GOERGL Elisabeth AUT 1:46.95 7 JNGLIN-K. Nadja SUI 1:46.97 8 MERIGHETTI D. ITA 1:47.14 9 SUTER Fabienne SUI 1:47.18 10 REBENSBURG V. GER 1:47.24 11 WEIRATHER […]
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Soft conditions and a twisty downhill course kept the American women’s speed team off the podium Friday, but the home crowds gave them no shortage of support just the same.There were high hopes for the team going into the downhill, and at the end of the race, the best […]
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By John LaConte On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. VIDEO: Vail Daily on-snow correspondent John LaConte checks out a few of the public viewing areas on Beaver Creek Mountain during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. Vail Daily reporter John LaConte uses a GoScope […]
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By caramie schnell The world is coming to Vail and Beaver Creek for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, and while Coloradans are well-versed in how to apres in the Rocky Mountains, traditions, languages and even drinks are different in other countries. In order to maintain diplomatic relations, it’s necessary to know how to party [&hellip
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — These will not be Lindsey Vonn’s World Championships, but they may be Tina Maze’s.The Slovenian edged Austrian Anna Fenninger by 2-hundredths of a second to capture the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships women’s downhill on the Raptor racecourse on Friday at Beaver Creek. Maze, the defending Olympic
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By Ross Leonhart On the Hill is brought to you by The Steadman Clinic and the Steadman Philippon Research Institute. VIDEO: Vail Daily reporter/copy chief Ross Leonhart swaps with Vail host John LaConte and reports from Riva Ridge on a sunny Friday morning at Vail Mountain. VAIL OFFICIAL REPORT: 7 inches in past 48 hours; […]
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By By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — For a second straight world championships, a bad crash knocked out a big-name U.S. skier. In this case, with Bode Miller, it might just have been his last race. The six-time Olympic medalist had surgery to fix a torn right hamstring tendon after his […]
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By John LaConte February 6, 2015 — Send your text, photo or video updates on weather, conditions and more from Vail and Beaver Creek mountains using #VailLive and #BCLive on Twitter or Instagram and see them published here on our live blog as well as tomorrow in the Vail Daily newspaper. … Source:: Vail Daily […]
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