You gotta dig Kalle Palander, the Finnish number one Alpine skier and the (suprise) World Champion in slalom 1999. Whatever Kalle is up to, he is always going at the full force (was it good or bad!). He is kind of like our own Bode Miller – likes to talk straight and doesn’t respect/fear the [...]

American alpine skier Scott Macartney’s crash in alpine skiing world cup downhill race in Kitzbühel was probably the worst crash in this season. Scott Macartney crashed in Kitzbühel with high speed (140 km/h) and hit his head heavily on icy ground, resulting into unconsciousness. He lost both of his skis as well as his helmet [...]

Alpine World Cup race in Kitzbühel in Austria ended in dramatic way when Scott Macartney crashed just before the finish line. American Scott Macartney lost his control in the last big jump, fell on his right side and hit his head on ground. Macartney’s speed on that moment was 140 km/h.

Scott Macartney crashed on his [...]

It was a great alpine skiing world cup weekend for us here in Finland. Our own alpine skiing star, Kalle Palander, won Giant Slalom in Alta Badia in Italy. This was the third victory for Kalle Palander in Alta Badia. Although Alta Badia’s race is one of the most difficult alpine skiing races in the [...]

Swiss Didier Cuche took the first position in last Friday’s men’s superG in Val Gardena in Italy. This was Didier Cuche’s seventh victory in the Alpine Skiing World Cup. Today’s race was interesting because American Bode Miller, who took the second position, was only 0,02 seconds slower than Didier Cuche. Mr. Cuche made a mistake [...]

November poll is now closed and the results are here. The question in November was “Alpine Skiing Champion 2008 Will Be..“. There were only four votes, so probably this poll was not too interesting. Those four were given to Svindal, Ligety and someone else. Two of the votes were given to Aksel Lund Svindal, who [...]

Austrian Michael Walchhofer took the gold medal in men’s downhill in Beaver Creek last weekend. Walchhofer took his 12th World Cup victory with time 1.13,74. Second was Steven Nyman who had difficulties to keep control after 70 meters jump. Aksel Lund Svindal crashed in this same spot during training. It seems that Svindal will not [...]

Swiss Marc Gini has taken the first position in World Cup slalom race in Reiteralm in Austria. Unexpected winner took the gold medal in Sunday’s windy and snowy race. This young (23) alpine skier was leading after the first run and kept the position until the end. Marc Gini was 0:0.28 seconds faster than the [...]

Austrian Marlies Schild, who dominated the cup in last year, took again the first position in Reiteralm. Even though she made a clear mistake in the second round, she was able to climb from third position to the first one. Second  position was taken by Austrian Nicole Hosp, 0.06 seconds behind Schild. Italian Chiara [...]

Bad news for Finnish alpine skiing and especially for Lapland’s tourism business. The scheduled FIS alpine skiing world cup slalom race in Levi, Finland is canceled. Despite the furious effort to prepare the slope for next weekend, the organizers couldn’t fight the mother nature. They should have had freezing temperatures of about -10~15 centigrade for the upcoming week [...]

Norvegian Aksel Svindal took the first place in the alpine skiing world cup opening in Soelden on last weekend. Svindal, who skis with Atomic, won this tight race with time 2.17,87. Aksel Svindal won the whole cup and super-G on last year and he seems to continue with same goals on this year.

Second place [...]

FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup was opened on last weekend in Soelden, Austria. The winner of ladies giant slalom was Italian 27 years old Denise Karbon for whom this was the second world cup victory. Denise Karbon, who skis with Fischer, has overcome her knee injury and is back in the top of alpine skiing. [...]