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This is Mikaela Shiffrin’s most impressive season yet. She broke Marlies Schild’s record for most lifetime slalom…

It’d be almost exhausting if it weren’t so preposterous: Mikaela Shiffrin has done it again. With the close of the…

Watching Lindsey Vonn at the end of Sunday’s downhill race in Are, Sweden, her smile dazzling, her arms spreading…

Lindsey Vonn is the most decorated female skier in history, and the most decorated skier, man or woman, in U.S.…

Before today, Marcel Hirscher had never won Olympic gold. Somehow.

Since Sochi, the women’s ski racing field has undergone a serious shake-up. Sure, the men have had some big-name…

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: ski racing is an insanely exciting sport. And not (only) because of the…

Writing about Mikaela Shiffrin’s success would be getting boring—if her narrative arc weren’t continually getting…

Mikaela Shiffrin looked tired. She wasn’t arcing as smoothly in this, her last race of the season; she wasn’t…

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — If you wanted to script the most fitting, the most unnerving-yet-uplifting race to cap off…

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — With a line-up like today’s, it’s easy to make the mistake of predicting the podium.

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — There was a crash today at the men’s giant slalom in the Alpine World Ski Championships,…

“The first time I was at the start I was really scared,” says former ski racing phenom Didier Cuche at the beginning…

The 2015 World Ski Championships have had some historic firsts. The first World Champs to be held in the U.S. this…

Late into a giant slalom run that looked like it would clinch her second gold in the 2015 World Ski Championships,…

Shortly after his run, just before mounting the most important podium of his career—and the first World…

Tina Maze made history yesterday, and not just as the first world champion to double as a Slovenian pop star. At…

At the World Championships downhill events that started today—the women raced this morning, the men tomorrow—it all…

The sky over Beaver Creek's Birds of Prey course was bluebird-bright, the grandstand was stuffed with 3,500 people…

Mikaela Shiffrin's style is sure-footed and rhythmic. Like the best slalom skiers, she sets up her turns high. She…