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Lindsey Vonn: "I Hope To Represent The People Of The United States, Not The President"<em></em>
American skier Lindsey Vonn, who’s returning to the Olympics next year for the first time since 2010, says that she wouldn’t accept an invitation to the White House after the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang if she were invited. In an interview with CNN, Vonn said that she wants to “represent the people o...
How Far Into This Obstacle Course Would You Make It?
Andri Ragettli, 19-year-old Swiss skier and Olympic hopeful, posted this insane workout video on his Instagram a few days ago that’s half American Ninja Warrior obstacle course, half Rube Goldberg machine....
Julio Jones Hires Dive Team To Recover $100K Earring He Lost While Jet Skiing
Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones had a pretty chill offseason, resting for most of it to heal up from foot surgery in March. However, Jones was recently jet skiing on Lake Lanier, a large reservoir north of Atlanta, when he hit a boat wake and flopped into the water....
Thrilled Puppy Briefly Joins Cross-Country Ski Race
An excited dog got loose and bounded into a World Cup cross-country skiing race on Sunday in Quebec City, and it was exactly as cute as you’d think....
Mikaela Shiffrin Is The Best In The World And She Needs A Nap
Mikaela Shiffrin looked tired. She wasn’t arcing as smoothly in this, her last race of the season; she wasn’t fighting as much. The fact that even that performance at Aspen on Sunday still put her in sixth—one many athletes on the World Cup circuit would love to have, yet considered a lackluster one...
Here's The Best Sports Highlight Of The Day
Nobody’s ready for the weekend more than this good-as-hell dog right here....
Ski Bro Extremely Chill About Getting Face Impaled By Tree Branch<em></em>
It takes a special person to be able to say, “Hey, look I got a new piercing,” immediately after impaling their face on a tree branch....
The Perfect End To The World Ski Championships Was An Emotional Slalom
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — If you wanted to script the most fitting, the most unnerving-yet-uplifting race to cap off the two-week World Alpine Ski Championships, you couldn’t have done better than today’s men’s slalom....
Roland Leitinger's Parents Couldn't Even Hide Their Shock At His Success
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — With a line-up like today’s, it’s easy to make the mistake of predicting the podium....
Air Force Flyover Severs Cable Cam, Nearly Downs Ski Lift At World Ski Championships
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — There was a crash today at the men’s giant slalom in the Alpine World Ski Championships, but it wasn’t a racer that hurtled to the ground. It was a cable camera, its wires severed by a too-close flyover from the Swiss Air Force. That was frightening enough, but it was just ...
Skiing Guy Flies Off Cliff, Lives To Tell The Tale
Gotta score this round for gravity....
Watch This Skier Set A World Record For Longest Railslide
Here’s the apparent formula for setting a Guinness world record, per this video of X-Games gold medalist Tom Wallisch....
Snowboarder Claims Skier Threw Him From Chairlift Over Joke
Snowboarder Seth Beckton says a skier threw him off a chairlift, from which he fell 20 or 25 feet, at Aspen Highlands in Colorado. Going by his account of events, the rivalry between skiers and snowboarders remains strong and hostile....
It's Time For The World's Most Terrifying Ski Course To Claim More Bodies
“The first time I was at the start I was really scared,” says former ski racing phenom Didier Cuche at the beginning of the documentary STREIF: One Hell of a Ride. “All of the guys are making jokes in the evening. They’re saying, ‘Don’t unpack too much your stuff, because I don’t want to pack for yo...
Ex-Olympian Picabo Street Charged With Assaulting Her Father
Olympic gold medal skier Picabo Street has been charged with domestic violence assault in Utah after she got in a fight with her father, according to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. The fight and subsequent arrest happened last month, on Dec. 23, at Street’s home outside of Park City, Utah, but ...
World Champion Skier Narrowly Escapes Death By Drone
Marcel Hirscher, the best alpine skier in the world, recently competed in a World Cup event in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. A few seconds into his second slalom run, he was very nearly crushed by a falling camera drone....
Olympic Skier Gus Kenworthy Comes Out As Gay
Skier Gus Kenworthy, who won a silver medal at the Sochi Olympics and also saved all the puppies, announced today that he is gay....
This POV Avalanche Rescue Will Give You Heart Palpitations
I've only ever been a casual snowboarder, but I've never gone up a mountain without thinking "Fuck, man, I hope I don't die in an avalanche today!" at least once. If you're anything like me, then this video is going to freak you out....
Does Skiing Need Cheerleaders?
The 2015 World Ski Championships have had some historic firsts. The first World Champs to be held in the U.S. this century. The oldest women's winner (Tina Maze, 31, downhill). And then the oldest World Champs winner, period (Hannes Reichelt, 34 downhill). The first skier to win the same discipline ...