Kaila Kuhn led the Americans in aerials at the 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International on Friday, Feb. 3 with a fourth place finish - tying her best result of the season so far. Kuhn was the lone American in the Super Final and opted for last-minute change ahead of starting down the in-run towards 5,000 roaring fans, competing a Double Full Full.

“These past few comps I’ve actually opted for my easier DD which is more consistent because I’ve competed them a lot longer,” said Kuhn. “I haven't competed a Double Full Full since the Olympics so I haven’t gotten to train it much this year. But I know with Worlds coming up this year I really need to work on that trick. So I decided to switch it up and try it, because you know, the worst you can do is get sixth. I did the best I could and I am super happy I put it to my feet.”

Australia’s Danielle Scott won for the women, Canada’s Marion Thenault took second and China’s Fanyu Kong took third. 

Three American women qualified for finals: Kuhn, Winter Vinecki and Megan Smallhouse. Vinecki went for a Full Full to earn a score of 79.69, finishing just outside of the Super Final round in seventh. In her first World Cup competition back from injury Megan Smallhouse finished twelfth. 

Ashley Caldwell finished 15th, Dani Loeb 20th, Karenna Elliott finished 22nd and Amelia Glogowski in her World Cup debut finished 23rd.

Derek Krueger led the men with a ninth place finish - tying his career best - with a Full Double Full Full, a trick he just competed for the first time tonight. “I just went for it,” Krueger said. “Why not?”

Chris Lillis also competed in finals, going for a Full Double Full Full, but didn’t land it and ended the night in 11th. 

Ukraine’s Dmytro Kotovskyi wowed the crowd with a Hurricane, a quintuple twisting triple backflip invented by the late Jeret Speedy Peterson. Kotovskyi absolutely stomped it out to earn a score of 138.32, one of the highest aerials scores ever recorded. China took second and third with Tianma Li and Shuo Chen, respectively/ 

Connor Curran finished the night in 13th, Justin Schoenefeld in 19th, Quinn Dehlinger in 20th, Ian Schoenwald in 21st and Ashton Salwan in 31st. 

Freestyle competition concludes tomorrow with Dual Moguls. 

RESULTS
Women’s Aerials
Men’s Aerials

Birk Irving and David Wise were first and second in the wind-blown freeski halfpipe finals at the 2023 Toyota U.S. Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain. 

When many thought the contest would be canceled due to high winds at Mammoth Mountain, the athletes still dropped into the pipe for the halfipipe finals. After a beautiful tribute to former U.S. Freeski Team athlete Kyle Smaine, where hundreds of current and former athletes, family and friends descended the pipe together, the contest went on.

“We’re all skiing the best we have because we’re all skiing with Kyle in our hearts,” said Irving. “We’re skiing for him and we know he’s looking down on us - we miss you Kyle, we love you, thank you for keeping us safe in the pipe today.”

The winds calmed down enough for us to have a contest. Overall, I was proud of Birk and Brendan (Mackay) for coming out and giving it there all and I think we had a good showing for the sport of freeski halfpipe,” said Wise.

Three trips down, Wise and Irving came out on top. Irving did not only win the day, he also won the crystal globe and the National Championship trophy making it a hat trick of success for his day.

Tristan Feinberg was right behind Wise, finishing the day in fourth place, with teammate Aaron Blunk in sixth.

For the women, Svea Irving and Hanna Faulhaber were the only U.S. Freeski Team athletes to compete in the women’s final. Faulhaber finished the day in fifth, and Irving was seventh. Irving also is ending the domestic World Cup schedule with a National Championship trophy, along with her brother, Birk.

RESULTS

Men

Women

At the place of her first ever podium and first ever win, Jessie Diggins was back in the top three in the Toblach city sprint today, Feb. 3. 

For the final weekend of racing before the World Championships in Plancia, Slovenia, the U.S. Cross Country Ski Team is back in Toblach, Italy for a skate sprint, 10k skate and a 4x7.5k relay. 

Today's sprint course played to the strengths of fast transitions, perfect for Diggins. Diggins initially qualified third to start off the day and then steadily moved her way to the final round. She won her quarterfinal heat and then moved on to take third in her semifinal. Pushing it to the finish, Diggins out-sprinted fourth place finisher Emma Ribom of Sweden. 

"Despite me being very tired, the race went really well, which is a reminder that how you feel doesn't always indicate how you will race." said Diggins. 

Along with Diggins, Rosie Brennan, Julia Kern and Hailey Swirbul were all within the top 30, adding more World Cup points to their resume. Moving on to the next race, Diggins is third overall in the World Cup standings. 

Brennan who finished 26th overall, started off the day by qualifying in the top ten, with Kern qualifying 26th and Swirbul 30th. 

Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist of Sweden were first and second. 

For the men, Ben Ogden led the team in 17th overall and Logan Diekmann scored World Cup points by finishing in 27th. 

RESULTS

Men

Women

Jaelin Kauf earned her 22nd podium in her 70th World Cup start under the lights at the 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort on Feb. 2. Champion took no prisoners, winning a few more rounds than usual against the world’s best moguls skiers. A steep transition from the top air into a nasty middle section marked by what became known as “rogules” - rogue moguls - proved a challenge many could not overcome. 

“The course was probably the toughest Champion course that I’ve ever seen, it was the most DNFs that I’ve ever seen [here],” commented Head Moguls World Cup Coach Bryon Wilson. 

“I was so stoked I was able to lay down some really solid and speedy runs and keep it together,” said Kauf from the finish. “This is such a challenging course, it always is. It seems like it was a little more challenging this year for some reason. But I was focused on landing that top air and getting on my toes. I can handle little bobbles or hits in that position.”

Kauf’s Super Finals run earned her a score of 77.35 to end the night in second place, with a huge score in speed of 19.96. She shared the podium with winner Anthony Jakara (Australia) and Perrine Laffont (France) in third. 

“Jaelin stepped up and skied super fast,” said Wilson. “She almost maxed out the speed points for this course. It was so impressive, so proud of her.”

Rookie and Park City local Dylan Marcellini in his third World Cup start made an impression on the Champion course with a fourth place finish, his career-first Super Finals appearance. “I really just came out here with no expectations and was just trying to ski my run as many times as I was able to,” Marcellini said. “I’ve been dreaming of this moment for years. To come out here and make Super Finals in my first-ever Deer Valley event feels unbelievable.”

Australia’s Matt Graham won for the men, Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury took second and France’s Benjamin Cavet rounded out the podium on third. 

It was a strong showing overall for the U.S. on their home course. A record seven women made it through to finals. Olivia Giaccio qualified in third as the top American woman and had a strong start in her finals run, but got stuck in the middle section and DNFd, finishing the night in 16th. Hannah Soar made it through to the Super Final round, but the middle section won the run and Soar DNFd to end the night in fifth. Tess Johnson tied her season-best result with a seventh place finish. Alli Macuga finished the night in 12th, Elizabeth Lemley finished 13th, and Kasey Hogg made her first finals appearance to finish in 14th. 

Kylie Kariotis finished 17th, Lulu Shaffer 22nd, and August Davis in her World Cup debut finished 24th. 

Four men represented the U.S. in finals: Marcellini, Charlie Mickel, Nick Page and Dylan Walczyk. Walczyk finished seventh, Cole McDonald 13th, Charlie Mickel 15th, Nick Page 29th, Garrett MArley 34th, Peyton Billeisen 40th, Ryan Tam 42nd, Landon Wendler did not finish. 

The 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International continues Friday with Aerials and Saturday with Dual Moguls. 

RESULTS
Women’s Moguls
Men’s Moguls

The FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in Courchevel-Meribel, France will be broadcast on NBC platforms and skiandsnowboard.live Feb. 6-19, 2023. The coverage by NBC is presented by Stifel and will feature live streaming on Peacock, five hours of  Alpine coverage on NBC and an additional 12 hours on CNBC covering Snowboard, Freeski and Freestyle.

Every race will stream live on Peacock and skiandsnowboard.live starting on Monday, February 6th from Meribel, France. NBC Sports’ Steve Schlanger and former Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team member Steve Porino will call all event broadcasts. NBC will also present four encore presentations: the women’s super-G, giant slalom, slalom and men’s downhill. Skiandsnowboard.live will house all races on-demand.

This year’s World Championships coverage is highlighted by Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team member Mikaela Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion, 11-time World Championship medal winner, and now the winningest woman World Cup skier in history with 85 Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup wins. The Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team also heads into the World Championships following a few podium performances in the 2022-23 season, one by Paula Moltzan in slalom and a downhill podium by Travis Ganong. The team is eager for a strong showing following the 2021 four-medal performance in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. 

The full World Championships team will be announced Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.

How to Watch on Peacock

Step 1: Download PeacockTV 
FIS World Cup Championships is only available for viewing with a paid Peacock Premium subscription. So, create an account and subscribe to PeacockTV Premium for only $4.99/month with commercials or $9.99/month without, and have full access through live or on-demand and delayed coverage. 

Step 2: Find your events on PeacockTV 

1. Create an account
2. Subscribe to Peacock Premium 
3. Click on the sports tab, and scroll down the page until you see the section “Skiing and Snowboarding” 

How to Watch on skiandsnowboard.live 

You can watch all of the action on skiandsnowboard.live, which is owned by InFront. There will be live English commentary on all events and the events will be on-demand. 

The site is behind a paywall. To watch, there are four options. 

• All-access Monthly Pass: $15.99
• Discipline Monthly Pass: $8.99
• Pay-Per-View: $1.99/per event

Skiandsnowboard.live is offering a $4 discount on an All-access Monthly Pass for the World Championships with the code WSC2023.

2023 FIS World Ski Championships Live Coverage Presented by Stifel Schedule

All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change.

Monday, Feb. 6
5:00 a.m. - women's combined (super-G) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
8:30 a.m. - women's combined (slalom) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Tuesday, Feb. 7
5:00 a.m. - men's combined (super-G) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
8:30 a.m. - men's combined (slalom) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Wednesday, Feb. 8
5:30 a.m. - women's super-G - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Thursday, Feb. 9
5:30 a.m. - women's super-G - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 11
5:00 a.m. - women's downhill - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
2:30 p.m. - women's super-G - NBC* 

Sunday, Feb. 12
5:00 a.m. - men's downhill - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - men's downhill - NBC*

Tuesday, Feb. 14
6:15 a.m. - mixed team parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
11:00 a.m. - men's and women's parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Wednesday, Feb. 14
6:00 a.m. - men's and women's parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Thursday, Feb. 16
4:00 a.m. - women's giant slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - women's giant slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Friday, Feb. 17
4:00 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 18
4:00 a.m. - women's slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - women's slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
2:30 p.m. - women's giant slalom - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 19
4:00 a.m. - men's slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - women's slalom - NBC*

*encore presentation 

Freestyle returns under the lights to Deer Valley Resort for its 25th year of elite competition at the 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International Feb. 2-4, 2023. The world’s most talented freestyle skiers will compete on the renowned 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games courses for three nights of unrivaled competition. Moguls kicks things off Thursday, aerials fly Friday, Feb 3, and dual moguls—the newest freestyle Olympic discipline—closes out the weekend on Saturday, Feb. 4.

STARTERS

Moguls

• Nick Page - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Cole McDonald - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Charlie Mickel - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Dylan Marcellini - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Dylan Walczyk - Ski and Snowboard Club Vail
• Ryan Tam - Olympic Valley Freestyle Team
• Garrett Marley - Ski and Snowboard Club Vail
• Landon Wendler - Wasatch Freestyle/Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club
• Peyton Billeisen - Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club

Women

• Elizabeth Lemley - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Olivia Giaccio - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Jaelin Kauf - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Tess Johnson - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Hannah Soar - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Kasey Hogg - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Alli Macuga - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• August Davis - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Lulu Shaffer - Park City Ski and Snowboard/ Stratton Mountain School
• Kylie Kariotis - Park City Ski and Snowboard 

Aerials

Men 

• Chris Lillis - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Justin Schoenefeld - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Quinn Dehlinger - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Derek Krueger - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Connor Curran - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Ian Schoenwald - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Ashton Salwan - Park City Ski and Snowboard

 Women 

• Ashley Caldwell - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Winter Vinecki - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Megan Nick - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Kaila Kuhn - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Dani Loeb - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Karenna Elliott - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Megan Smallhouse - U.S Freestyle A-Team

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
4:25 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Friday, Feb. 3, 2023
5:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Aerials, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Aerials, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023 
11 a.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, delayed broadcast CNBC
6:15 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023
1 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, delayed broadcast NBC

At only 21 years old, Mac Forehand beat out the veterans of the sport when he landed a perfect 2160 Cuban in the men's ski big air contest at the 2023 X Games. 

Forehand, who won the X Games silver medal the day before in men's ski slopestyle, still had something left in his bag for the second-to-last competition of the X Games. With four attempts of the big air jump, Forehand never ventured out of the top three. In the strong field of 10 competitors, including teammates Alex Hall and Troy Podmilsak, Forehand had what it took to win. 

Alex Hall, who won the event in 2022, threw tricks that only AHall can do. Off the jump, Hall put down a switch dub 14 to knuckle switch butter 3. At the end of the night, Hall finished in seventh. Troy Podmilsak, a Rookie Team athlete, showed he deserved to be there. Before the contest even started, TPod landed a worlds-first switch dub bio 1980. An unbelievable feat for the rookie, Podmilsak is leaving his first X games with a sixth place. 

But the night went to Forehand. On the last jump of the night, Forehand landed a 2160 Cuban, meaning he spun through the air five and a half times while grabbing the back tip of his ski. Landing the trick perfectly, the crowd went wild. Forehand skied to the bottom of the jump with his head in his hands, waiting for his score, in complete disbelief. Seconds later, a 50 showed up on the screen - a perfect score. Forehand, with the X Games gold medal around his neck now looks forward to the next contest at Mammoth Mountain later this week. 

David Wise won X Games gold to close out the 2023 X Games in Aspen, Colo. Wise, who has competed in over 14 X Games, is once again walking away from the event with another gold medal in his bag. Under the lights of Buttermilk Mountain, the men's SuperPipe was the last event of the busy X Games schedule. With tens of thousands of fans surrounding the 22-foot-tall halfpipe, U.S. Freeski Team athletes Wise, Birk Irving, Alex Ferreira and Aaron Blunk put on a show. 

With four chances to land a perfect run, it was anyone's game. Through the first run, Wise landed all his tricks and was showing serious amplitude and creativity. Next up was hometown favorite Alex Ferreira. Uncharacteristically of Ferreira, he hit the deck of the pipe on his last hit and fell while attempting his left double cork 1620. After a minute or so on the ground, he skied down safely. But on the second run, it happened again and he eventually pulled out of the contest. Ferreira now focuses on the next contest at Mammoth Mountain. 

Irving, who is coming away from a second place the week before in Calgary, Canada showed the crowd he was ready to go big. With a clean double flat spin 720 in the middle of his run and ending with a left dub 1440, Irving ended up in second place, securing an X Games silver medal. The night before, his sister, Svea Irving, won X Games bronze in the women's ski SuperPipe - closing out a successful weekend for the Irving siblings. 

Aaron Blunk, known by the X Games community as the only skier to throw five doubles in all four directions in his run in 2022, went big. On Blunk's last trip through the pipe, it looked like he was in the right position to knock Jon Sallinen out of third place but just came up short, ending the night in fourth place. 

But the night was ultimately won by Wise. Wise is now a five-time X Games gold medalist, having won the event in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018 and now 2023. Wise, whose run included a switch right 900 tail, switch left double cork 1080 japan, a right 900 tail and finished with mirror back-to-back dub 12 mutes, he had enough to secure the first place position. 

Now, the U.S. Freeski and Snowboard Teams are in Mammoth Mountain for the 2023 Toyota U.S. Grand Prix. 

RESULTS

U.S. Freeski Team athlete Svea Irving went big in the SuperPipe on Saturday night and ended the evening on the podium for the first time in her professional career. 

Irving came to the X Games as an alternate and left with a bronze medal. This is not only Irving's first X Games medal, it is her first ever podium at the professional level. As an alternate, you are not guaranteed a starting position. For Irving, she found out the night before the contest that she would have the opportunity to drop in, and she took it.

With the heavy snowfall significantly slowing down the pipe for all athletes, she managed to find her speed and amplitude and landed a very technical combo of tricks that eventually led her to be in the top three overall. On her final run through the pipe, matched with screams from the thousands of fans, Irving landed the alleyoop flat five to cork nine combo and walked away with an X Games Bronze. 

"I just won my first bronze medal at any big event ever," said Irving in disbelief. "I am absolutely speechless but very grateful to be on the podium with such great athletes. I am just so stoked to be here!" 

Along with Irving, teammates Hanna Faulhaber and Brita Sigourney also competed. Faulhaber, who won X Games Bronze at last years competition, ended the night in fifth and Sigourney, who has competed in 14 X Games in her career, was seventh. Zoe Atkin of Great Britain won Gold and Rachael Karker of Canada was Silver. 

Now Irving and the rest of the team, both men and women, travel to the west coast for the U.S. Toyota Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain. 

RESULTS

On Sunday, the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team men’s speed team took on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Cortina super-G track for the second day. The race was riveting and extremely difficult. There was a total of 21 did not finish racers. An unheard-of number for a speed event. This was due to a lot of trick turns on the terrain packed course.

“It helps to run at the end where you see some of the top guys go with those big trick turns and mistakes they were making,” commented Kyle Negomir on the tricky set.

Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Negomir led the way with a 28th place. Bryce Bennett was close behind in 29th and River Radamus and Ryan Cochran-Siegle were just out of the top 30 in 32nd and 35th. Erik Arvidsson landed in 36th place.

“I think today was a lot of tricks and traps in the course set so you had to be careful,” said Negomir. “I executed the hard sections well and at the bare minimum you needed that today.”

The day’s winner was once again Marco Odermatt of Switzerland. Second place went to Italian skier Dominik Paris, and third place went to Austrian skier Daniel Hemetsberger.

The men’s speed team will now take some rest days as they gear up for World Championships in Courchevel-Meribel France Feb. 6-19th.

RESULTS
Men's super-G