Goldberg Career-Best Super-G At Kvitfjell

Jared Goldberg (Holladay, Utah) picked up a career-best FIS Ski World Cup super-G result Sunday, finishing 16th on the Olympic course in Kvitfjell, Norway.

Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud took the victory ahead of Switzerland’s Beat Feuz in second and Brice Roger of France in third. Jansrud also wrapped up the World Cup super-G title with his victory Sunday.

Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, Calif.) was 37th; Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) was 38th, and Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, Vt.) was 41st.

Up next, the World Cup finals take place March 12-18 in Are, Sweden.

RESULTS
Men’s super-G
World Cup overall standings
World Cup super-G standings

Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, Calif.) finished 15th in Saturday’s FIS Ski World Cup downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway. Jared Goldberg (Holladay, Utah) was 27th and Wiley Maple (Aspen, Colo.) was 42nd.

Germany’s Thomas Dressen continued his late-season surge, with his second World Cup victory. Switzerland’s Beat Feuz was second, followed by Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway in third.

Up next, the men race super-G Sunday in Kvitfjell before heading to Are, Sweden for the World Cup Finals. Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) is currently 25th in the super-G standings heading into Sunday’s event. Only the top 25 in each discipline qualify for the World Cup Finals. Bennett is the only American who has qualified for the downhill at the World Cup Finals.

RESULTS
Men’s downhill
World Cup downhill standings
World Cup overall standings

Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) won a fifth World Cup slalom title following her 42nd FIS Ski World Cup victory Saturday in Ofterschwang, Germany. Shiffrin now holds the record for the most World Cup victories before the age of 23.

Battling spring snow conditions and light rain, Shiffrin won the first run, then unseat second run leader Wendy Holdener of Switzerland by 0.09-seconds for the victory. Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter rounded out the podium in third.

“It was a really good fight,” said Shiffrin, who celebrates her 23rd birthday March 13. “For Wendy, I knew she had a really good run because I could hear the announcers from the top, but I thought ‘not today Wendy!’”

Saturday’s win was Shiffrin’s 31st World Cup slalom victory, and after wrapping up the overall World Cup title with a third-place finish in Friday’s giant slalom, she now has won the World Cup slalom title five times: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018.

“It was an incredible, incredible weekend for sure,” said Shiffrin, who now heads to the World Cup Finals in Are, Sweden next week. “My biggest challenge this year has not been the Olympics, or the (World Cup) overall or any of that, but getting motivated for these last races.

“I’m in a constant chase of skiing my best and skiing free,” she added. “Hopefully, I’m not going to be feeling a lot of nerves (in Are) because there is not a lot of risk. But still every time I get in the start gate I want to perform at my highest level, and that’s the biggest goal there.”

Up next, the women race downhill at the World Cup Finals in Are March 14, followed by super-G March 15; team event March 16; slalom March 17 and giant slalom March 18. 

RESULTS
Women’s slalom
World Cup slalom standings
World Cup overall standings
 

Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) wrapped up her second overall FIS Ski World Cup title following her third-place finish in Friday’s giant slalom in Ofterschwang, Germany.

Shiffrin came into Friday’s race, her first since winning the gold medal in giant slalom and silver in alpine combined at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, with a 561-point lead over Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener, who finished 14th Friday.

“It’s an incredible moment right now,” Shiffrin said. “After last year when I won the overall, some people were saying it was sort of fake ‘because the other girls weren’t there and there was nobody to challenge her.’ So to have the overall this year locked in already before we go to (World Cup) Finals, it feels like a confirmation for me.”

Shiffrin now carries a 603-point lead into next week’s World Cup Finals in Are, Sweden, and mathematically clinches her second-straight overall World Cup title. Shiffrin can clinch the World Cup slalom title Saturday with a 10th-place or better result in Ofterschwang.

Olympic downhill champion Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway won her first World Cup race Friday, as Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg was second. Rebensburg leads the overall giant slalom standings by 92 points over Tessa Worley of France. Shiffrin is third, 101 points back.

Up next, the women compete in a slalom Saturday in Ofterschwang.

RESULTS
Women's giant slalom

The 2018 Olympic Winter Games are behind us but the race for podiums and crystal globes continues with U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes competing around the globe. Read on to see where the action is this week and how to watch via NBC, NBCSN and the Olympic Channel - Home of Team USA.

FIS Women’s Ski World Cup - Offerschwang, Germany
Current overall World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) will compete in both the slalom and giant slalom events in Offerschwang, Germany March 9-10. Shiffrin currently has a 561-point lead over Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener in the battle for the overall crystal globe and leads the slalom standings as well. If results go Mikaela’s way she could secure the overall World Cup title this weekend. Stay tuned as history could be made!

FIS Men’s Ski World Cup - Kvitfjell, Norway
The men’s speed team, including Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, Calif.) and Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.), will race downhill in Norway on Saturday, March 10 followed by a super-G on Sunday, March 11.

FIS Freestyle World Cup - Airolo, Switzerland
Coming off a winning weekend of podium performances from Keaton McCargo (Telluride, Colo.) and Tess Johnson (Vail, Colo.), the U.S. Ski Team moguls athletes are back in Europe for a dual moguls weekend in Airolo, Switzerland. Competition will take place on Saturday, March 10.

FIS Cross Country World Cup - Oslo, Norway
The cross country stars of the U.S. Ski Team, including Olympic gold medalists Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall, move on to Norway for a pair of mass-start distance races March 10-11. Saturday features the men’s 50k freestyle followed by the women’s 30k freestyle on Sunday.

FIS Men’s & Women’s Ski Jumping World Cup - Oslo, Norway
Kevin Bickner (Wauconda, Ill.) and Michael Glasder (Cary, Ill.) will lead the charge for the U.S. at the men’s HS134 team and individual events March 10-11 in Oslo, Norway to kick off the Raw Air tournament. Saturday’s team event will be a night jump followed by the individual event on Sunday.

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup - Oslo, Norway
Brothers Bryan and Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) are joined by Jasper Good (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Ben Loomis (Eau Claire, Wis.) to compete in an HS134 jump and individual Gundersen on Saturday, March 10 in Oslo, Norway.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - Scuol, Switzerland
U.S. riders Maggie Carrigan, Abby Champagne, Lynn Ott, Robert Burns, Ryan Rosencranz and Dylan Udolf will compete in parallel giant slalom in Scuol, Switzerland. Qualifying rounds and finals will take place on Saturday, March 10.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - Moscow
A strong contingent of U.S. riders, including Alex Deibold (Boulder, Colo.), Jonathan Cheever (Saugus, Mass.) and Meghan Tierney (Edwards, Colo.), will join the international field in a city race in Moscow, Russia. Individual qualification and finals will take place on Saturday, March 10 followed by a team event on Sunday, March 11.

Burton US Open - Vail, Colo.
Newly crowned Olympic gold medalists Red Gerard (Silverthorne, Colo.), Jamie Anderson (S. Lake Tahoe, Calif.) and Chloe Kim (Torrance, Calif.) headline a roster of star-studded U.S. athletes competing at the 36th annual Burton U.S. Open in Vail, Colo. March 7-10. A full schedule and information on how to watch is available at events.burton.com.

HOW TO WATCH
*All Times EST

ALPINE 
March 9
5:00 a.m. - Women’s giant slalom run 1, Ofterschwang - OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. - Women’s giant slalom, Ofterschwang - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE

March 10
3:30 a.m. - Women’s slalom run 1, Ofterschwang - OlympicChannel.com
5:00 a.m. - Men’s downhill, Kvitfjell - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
6:30 a.m. - Women’s slalom, Ofterschwang - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE
11:00 p.m. - Women’s slalom, Ofterschwang - NBCSN - Same Day Broadcast

March 11
5:30 a.m. - Men’s downhill, Kvitfjell - Olympic Channel TV - LIVE

FREESTYLE
March 10
8:45 a.m. - Dual moguls, Scuol - OlympicChannel.com 

CROSS COUNTRY
March 10
8:30 a.m. - Men’s 50k mass start freestyle, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com
12:00 p.m. - Men’s 50k mass start freestyle, Oslo - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 11
5:45 a.m. - Women’s 30k mass start freestyle, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com
11:30 a.m. - Women’s 30k mass start freestyle, Oslo - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

SKI JUMPING 
March 9
1:30 p.m. - Men’s HS 130 qualifying, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com

March 10
11:00 a.m. - Men’s HS 130 Team, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com

March 11
4:15 a.m. - Women’s HS 130, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com
8:30 a.m. - Men’s HS 130 qualifying, Oslo - OlympicChannel.com
12:30 p.m. - Raw Air Tournament, Oslo - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

NORDIC COMBINED
March 10
4:00 a.m. - Men’s HS 134 - Olympic Challen TV -OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. - Men’s individual, Oslo - Olympic Challen TV - OlympicChannel.com
11:00 a.m. - Men’s individual, Oslo - Olympic Challen TV - Same Day Broadcast

SNOWBOARD
March 10
7:30 a.m. - Parallel giant slalom, Scuol - OlympicChannel.com
10:00 a.m. - Snowboardcross sprint, Moscow - OlympicChannel.com
1:00 p.m. - Snowboardcross sprint, Moscow - Olympic Channel TV - Same Day Broadcast

March 11
3:30 a.m. - Snowboardcross team event, Moscow -OlympicChannel.com

Tommy Ford (Bend, Ore.) posted a career-best World Cup finish in ninth, and Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, Vt.) posted a career-best giant slalom result in 10th as the FIS Ski World Cup circuit resumed in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Saturday.

“It was a fight,” said Ford. “Two big mistakes, one from each run, but the skiing was there. It’s been a battle throughout the season, but I’m glad to have this race today on this kind of snow.”

Ford, who finished 10th in a World Cup giant slalom at Beaver Creek last season, led three U.S. Ski Team athletes into the points as Tim Jitloff (Reno, Nev.) finished 14th. Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) did not finish the first run.

“That second run, I couldn’t be happier with it,” said Cochran-Siegle, who posted the third fastest second run time on a hard, fast course. “I got to sit down in that (leader’s chair) for a while, which is always fun too.”

“It was cool watching Tommy,” Cochran-Siegle added. “He had that little mistake and I think he could’ve really moved up, but he skied great as well.”

Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the race by a massive 1.66 seconds over Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen. Alexis Pinturault of France was third. Hirscher extended his overall World Cup lead to 249 points over Kristoffersen.

Up next, the men race slalom Sunday in Kranjska Gora.

McKennis Top American in Super-G

Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) was the only member of the U.S. Ski Team to finish in the points in Saturday’s World Cup super-G, finishing 23rd in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Breezy Johnson (Victor, Idaho) finished 34th, Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore) was 45th and Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.) was 50th. Both Lindsey Vonn (Vail, Colo.) and Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) are sitting out this weekend’s events.

Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein won the race, followed by Austria’s Anna Veith in second and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland in third. Shiffrin continues to lead the overall World Cup standings by 611 points over Holdener.

Up next, the women compete in alpine combined Sunday with one run of super-G, followed by one run of slalom.

RESULTS
Men’s giant slalom
Women’s super-G

After bringing home 16 medals from the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, including eight gold, many athletes on the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team are back on their respective World Cup circuits to finish out the 2018 season.

Read on to see where U.S. Ski & Snowboard athletes will be in action this week and how to watch via NBC, NBCSN and the Olympic Channel - Home of Team USA.

FIS Women’s Ski World Cup - Crans-Montana, SUI
The fight for crystal globes continue with a super-G and alpine combined weekend March 3-4 in Crans-Montana. Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.), Stacey Cook (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Breezy Johnson (Victor, Idaho), Alice Merryweather (Hingham, Mass.) and Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) are expected to race.

FIS Men’s Ski World Cup - Kranjska Gora, SLO
The men’s tech team will take to the slopes in Kranjska Gora with giant slalom on March 3 and slalom on March 4. Ted Ligety (Park City, Utah) and Tommy Ford (Bend, Ore.) are among the athletes expected to compete.

FIS Freeski World Cup - Silvaplana, SUI
U.S. Freeski Team members Julia Krass (Hanover, N.H.), Willie Borm (Chaska, Minn.) and Cody LaPlante (Truckee, Calif.), along with U.S. athletes Quinn Wolferman, Tim Ryan and Ryan McElmon, will compete in the second to last slopestyle world cup of the season at Silvaplana. Qualifications will take place on Friday, March 2 followed by finals on Saturday, March 3.

FIS Freestyle World Cup - Tazawako, JPN
Jaelin Kauf (Alta, Wyo.) will continue her quest for the overall moguls World Cup title this weekend with single moguls and dual moguls World Cup events March 3-4 in Tazawako. Olympic team members Morgan Schild (Pittsford, N.Y.), Troy Murphy (Bethel, Maine), Brad Wilson (Butte, Mont.), Emerson Smith (Dover, Vt.), Tess Johnson (Vail, Colo.), Keaton McCargo (Telluride, Colo.) and Casey Andringa (Boulder, Colo.) will also be competing.

FIS Freestyle World Cup - Sunny Valley, RUS
Tania Prymak (Goshen, N.Y.), Brant Crossan (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Tyler Wallasch (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.) will represent the U.S. at the ski cross World Cup in Sunny Valley. Qualifications will take place Friday, March 2 followed by two finals competitions March 3-4.

FIS Cross Country World Cup - Lahti, FIN
The FIS Nordic Ski World Cup continues March 3-4 with freestyle sprint, women's 10k and men's 15k classic events.​

​​​​​​FIS Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup - Lahti, FIN
Fresh off some strong performances at the Games, Kevin Bickner (Wauconda, Ill.), Michael Glasder (Cary, Ill.), Will Rhoads (Park City, Utah) and Casey Larson (Barrington, Ill.) are back on the World Cup circuit for two events in Lahti, Finland. HS130 qualifications will take place on Friday, March 2 followed by a team event on March 3 and an individual jump on March 4.

FIS Nordic Combined World Cup - Lahti, FIN
Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Jasper Good (Steamboat Springs, Colo.), Ben Berend (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) and Ben Loomis (Eau Claire, Wis.) will compete in a team event on March 3 and an individual event on March 4 in Lahti, Finland.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - La Molina, ESP
U.S. Snowboard Team members Jonathan Cheever (Park City, Utah) and Alex Deibold (Boulder, Colo.) will lead the way for the U.S. at this weekend’s snowboardcross World Cup in La Molina, Spain. Qualifications will take place on Friday, March 2 followed by finals on Saturday, March 3.

FIS Snowboard World Cup - Kayseri, TUR
Americans Steve Maccutcheon and Ryan Rosencranz will represent the U.S. at the parallel giant slalom World Cup in Kayseri, Turkey. Qualifiers and finals will take place on Saturday, March 3.

HOW TO WATCH
*All Times EST

ALPINE
March 3
3:30 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom run 1, Kranjska Gora - OlympicChannel.com
4:30 a.m. - Women’s super-G, Crans-Montana -  OlympicChannel.com
6:30 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom run 2, Kranjska Gora - OlympicChannel.com
8:30 a.m. - Women’s super-G, Crans-Montana - Olympic Channel TV
9:30 a.m. - Men’s giant slalom, Kranjska Gora - Olympic Channel TV
10:30 p.m. - Women’s super-G, Crans-Montana -  NBCSN

March 4
3:30 a.m. - Men’s slalom run 1, Kranjska Gora - OlympicChannel.com
4:30 a.m. - Women’s combined run 1, Crans-Montana -  OlympicChannel.com
8:30 a.m. - Men’s slalom - Kranjska Gora - Olympic Channel TV
9:30 a.m. - Women’s combined, Crans-Montana - Olympic Channel TV

FREESKI
March 3
8:30 a.m. - Slopestyle, Silvaplana - OlympicChannel.com
8:00 p.m. - Slopestyle, Silvaplana - Olympic Channel TV

FREESTYLE
March 2
11:30 p.m. - Moguls, Tazawako - Olympic Channel TV

March 3
3:30 a.m. - Ski Cross, Sunny Valley - OlympicChannel.com
8:30 a.m. - Slopestyle, Silvaplana - OlympicChannel.com
10:30 a.m. - Ski Cross, Sunny Valley - Olympic Channel TV
8:00 p.m. - Slopestyle, Silvaplana - Olympic Channel TV
11:30 p.m. - Dual Moguls, Tazawako - Olympic Channel TV

March 4
2:00 a.m. - Ski Cross, Sunny Valley - OlympicChannel.com
9:00 a.m. - Ski Cross, Sunny Valley - Olympic Channel TV

CROSS COUNTRY
March 3
7:15 a.m. - Men and women sprint - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
7:00 p.m. - Men and women sprint - Lahti - Olympic Channel TV

March 4
5:15 a.m. - Women’s 10k- Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
8:45 a.m. - Men’s 10k- Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
4:00 p.m. - Women’s 10k- Lahti - Olympic Channel TV

SKI JUMPING
March 2
12:00 p.m. - Men’s individual qualifying - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com

March 3
10:30 a.m. - Men’s team - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
9:00 p.m. - Men’s team - Lahti - Olympic Channel TV

March 4
9:30 a.m. - Men’s individual - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
6:00 p.m. - Men’s individual - Lahti - Olympic Channel TV

NORDIC COMBINED
March 3
6:15 a.m. - HS130 - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
9:30 a.m. - Team sprint - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com

March 4
4:00 a.m. - HS130 - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com
8:45 a.m. - Individual 10k - Lahti - OlympicChannel.com

SNOWBOARD
March 3
5:00 a.m. - Snowboardcross - La Molina - OlympicChannel.com
7:30 a.m. Parallel giant slalom - Kayseri - OlympicChannel.com
6:00 p.m. - Snowboardcross - La Molina - Olympic Channel TV