ZAGREB, Croatia (Jan. 2, 2017) – The stage is set for the 2017 Audi FIS Ski World Cup “Snow Queen Trophy” race in Zagreb, Croatia. The trophy itself, won by Mikaela Shiffrin each of the last two years the race was held (2013 and 2015), glistens in the hotel lobby under a blue light. It’s up for grabs, and both the men and the women will be fighting for it under the lights in this Zagreb slalom series.

Fans will be able to witness Shifrrin’s attempt to make history LIVE on NBCSN tomorrow, with coverage of the second run starting at 10:00 a.m. EST.

All eyes will be on Shiffrin, who can tie the World Cup women’s record of eight successive slalom victories, held by Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider (1988-89) and Croatia’s own Janica Kostlic (2000-01), who will be in attendance tomorrow. Of course, Shiffrin isn’t big on the records, but this girl is on fire…in fact, she’s won the last 12 World Cup slalom races in which she has started, including 14 of the last 15.

“I’m not so motivated by records,” Shiffrin said prior to today's bib draw. “I’m motivated by being young and being good at the sport, and trying to just do the best that I can with it. Lately I’ve been doing well, but it might not always be this way. So I’m taking advantage of this time now and I’m happy about it, but I’m just trying to ski my best.”

You might think that Shiffrin must have a secret to her success? When asked about the tricks up her sleeve she exclaimed “Barilla and Red Bull—the perfect combination!” Things look good for tomorrow, as Shiffrin loves skiing at Zagreb, and the track is prepped amazingly well.

Her wish for the New Year? It’s simple. “I wish for health and happiness, and to have fun skiing,” said Shiffrin. “I like to ski well, and I feel like I’ve been skiing well lately. I’m getting anxious to put some really good skiing into the races, and my best training skiing, so that’s my biggest goal for these next races.”

Resi Stiegler finished 13^th the last time she competed in Zagreb, Croatia in 2015. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom- Alexis Boichard)

Resi Stiegler (Jackson, WY) has been steadily climbing this season, with three top-20 results so far. But she’s hungry for more. Her last World Cup finish was 15th in Sestriere, Italy. In Semmering, Austria, Stiegler’s top splits were in the top five before straddling and DNFing. She felt a new kind of fire from within, and she’ll be channeling that energy for tomorrow’s race. In 2015, Stiegler finished 13th in Zagreb.

On the men’s side, Austria’s Marcel Hirscher is the reigning VIP Snow Queen in 2012, 2013 and 2015, and he’ll be gunning for his 100th podium, but the Attacking Viking Henrik Kristoffersen - who has won the last two slalom races - will be tough to beat.

David Chodounsky finished 18^th in 2013 at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup on Zagreb, Croatia. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom- Alexis Boichard)

In 2015, David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, CO) had the third fastest first run time before DNFing his second run. His best finish was 18th in 2013. AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece) had the 13th fastest first run time in Madonna di Campiglio and grabbed his first World Cup points, finishing 26th. He skied extremely fast here in 2015 before skiing out. Keep an eye on him!

NBCSN and Universal HD will cover all of the action this week, with the second run in Thursday's slalom in Zagreb set for live broadcast on NBCSN. Live streaming of all races will be available on NBCsports.com/live.

Road to Aspen Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals
Austria's Marcel Hirscher and Shiffrin each continue to hold strong leads in the overall Audi FIS Ski World Cup. Hirscher comes into Zagreb with a commanding lead, with 713 points to Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud’s 482, followed by France’s Alexis Pinturault with 465 points. Shiffrin, with 798 points, has a strong lead over Switzerland’s Lara Gut with 583 points, followed by Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec with 495 points. The battle for World Cup crystal globes will conclude in Aspen this March with the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals.

CONFIRMED STARTERS
Women:
Megan McJames (Park City, UT)
Lila Lapanja (Incline Village, NV
Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO)
Resi Stiegler (Jackson, WY)

Men:
Michael Ankeny (Deephaven, MN)
David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, CO)
Mark Engel (Truckee, CA)
AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece)
Robby Kelley (Starksboro, VT)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) can tie the World Cup women’s record of eight successive slalom victories, held by Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider (1988-89) and Croatia’s own Janica Kostlic (2000-01).
• Shiffrin won the last 12 World Cup slalom races in which she has started, including 14 of the last 15—the only exception being a third place finish in Flachau in 2015.
• Shiffrin was crowned VIP Snow Queen each of the last two times the race was held in Zagreb—in 2013 and 2015
• Last year the race was canceled due to lack of snow and unusually warm temperatures.
• Resi Stiegler (Jackson, WY) has had three top 20 finishes this season. Her last World Cup finish was a 15th in Sestriere, Italy. In Semmering, Austria, Stiegler’s top splits were in the top 5 before straddling and DNFing. In 2015, she finished 13th in Zagreb.
• In 2015, David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, CO) had the third fastest first run time before DNFing second run. His best finish was 18th in 2013.
• AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece) had the 13th fastest first run time in Madonna di Campiglio and grabbed his first World Cup points, finishing 26th. He skied extremely fast here in 2015 before skiing out.
• NBCSN and Universal HD will cover all of the action this week, with the second run in Thursday's slalom in Zagreb set for LIVE broadcast on NBCSN. Live streaming of all races will be available on NBCsports.com/live.

QUOTES
Mikaela Shiffrin
[On New Year’s Wishes]
I wish for health and happiness, and to have fun skiing. I like to ski well, and I feel like I’ve been skiing well lately. I’m getting anxious to put some really good skiing into the races, and my best training skiing, so that’s my biggest goal for these next races.

[On records, and breaking them]
I’m not so motivated by records. I’m motivated by being young and being good at the sport, and I'm trying to just do the best that I can with it. Lately I’ve been doing well, but it might not always be this way. So I’m taking advantage of this time now and I’m happy about it, but I’m just trying to ski my best.

[On the secret to her success]
I don’t have a secret. I just try to ski well. I guess everyone does. I know the sport, like the back of my hand—it’s what I dream about, it’s what I know, and it makes it easy to go out there and ski well because I understand it.

[On winning the hat track in Semmering]
It was a dream of mine to win a slalom and a giant slalom in the same race series, and to win two GS races and a slalom in the same series was incredible. I never thought that would happen, really, so it was amazing…but also just putting some good skiing out in the GS was a really big step forward for me. When I finished the slalom and I realized I had won three races in a row, I just thought ‘I don’t feel any different, actually. I still feel like the same person and nothing’s changed, so it was a bit of a relief.’ I thought that maybe I would feel some sort of better self-worth, but I didn’t, I’m still me and so we go to the next race.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Tuesday, Jan. 3
7:00 a.m. – Zagreb women’s slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
10:00 a.m.  – Zagreb women’s slalom – run 2 – LIVE on NBCSN and LIVE STREAM

Thursday, Jan. 5
8:45 a.m. – Zagreb men’s slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
12:00 p.m. – Zagreb men’s slalom – run 2 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:00 p.m. – Zagreb men’s slalom – Universal HD

Live streaming available on NBCsports.com/Live and the NBC Sports app, which is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire.

SEMMERING, Austria (Dec. 29, 2017) – Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) put together a brilliant, come-from-behind second run to sweep the tech series at Semmering and take her seventh-straight Audi FIS Ski World Cup slalom victory.

Mikaela Shiffrin skis to her third win in three days. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

After winning both giant slaloms Tuesday and Wednesday, Shiffrin came into Thursday's slalom looking for the sweep. She only led by .09 seconds over Veronika Velez Zuzulova of Slovakia after first run and Velez Zuzulova put down a seemingly unbeatable second run. Right out of the gate, Shiffrin made a big mistake and fell behind by over three-tenths at the middle split, leading the crowd to believe she gave away the win. But she let her skis run in the bottom half of the course, surprising the fans by taking the victory by .64 seconds.

“Every gate I thought I was giving it away,” said Shiffrin. “I felt like I was fighting and I’m proud of that. I was trying to ski fast and have some fun.”

Velez Zuzulova finished second and Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener was third.

Shiffrin also stated that she was feeling sick, and not quite like herself. “I’m still searching to have a perfect run and a really fast run and put one of my best runs of training in there,” Shiffrin said. “Sometimes it’s better to fight and I did that today. I’m happy.”

Shiffrin celebrates her win. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

It was Shiffrin’s 26^th career victory and puts her on track to win her eighth slalom in a row in Zagreb on January 3. That would tie her with the record eight-race slalom win streak held by Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider and Croatia’s Janica Kostelic. Shiffrin also became the first racer since record-holder Schneider to win three tech races on the same hill within three days.

But when Shiffrin was asked how she felt about being iconic in the sport of ski racing, she laughed. “I’m just a 21-year-old girl!” said Shiffrin. “Everybody has to stop telling me these things. I’m just trying to ski."

HIGHLIGHTS

• Mikaela Shiffrin won the Semmering slalom by .64 seconds.
• It was her third win at Semmering in three days: two giant slaloms and one slalom.
• Shiffrin is one away from tying the record of eight-straight slalom wins held by Vreni Schneider (1988-89) and Janica Kostelic (2000-01).
• Shiffrin has won the last 12 World Cup slalom races that she started.
• Shiffrin also became the first racer since record-holder Schneider to win three tech races on the same hill within three days.
• Resi Stiegler (Jackson, WY) and Megan McJames (Park City, UT) did not finish first run. Lila Lapanja (Alpine Village, NV) did not qualify for second run.
• Road to Aspen: Shiffrin leads the overall World Cup standings with 798 points. Lara Gut is currently in second place with 583 points.
• Next, the tech women head to Zagreb for another night slalom on January 3.

Shiffrin celebrates with her team. (Erich Spiess)

QUOTES
Mikaela Shiffrin
I felt like I was fighting and I’m proud of that. I was trying to ski fast and have some fun. I’m still searching to have a perfect run and a really fast run and put one of my best runs of training in there. Sometimes it’s better to fight and I did that today. I’m happy.

I was trying to think about how Marcel Hirscher or Henrik (Kristoffersen) would ski it and I don’t think I came close to that, but I was trying to channel that energy. It took me a while to get balanced in the course. I was getting stuck and thinking I was maybe going to fall over, and I didn’t, so that was good.

[On becoming a legend in ski racing]
I’m just a 21-year-old girl! Everybody has to stop telling me these things. (laughs) I’m just trying to ski.

RESULTS
Women’s slalom

SANTA CATERINA, Italy (Dec. 29, 2016) – In alpine combined, athletes usually favor one run over the other, but sometimes it all comes together and the results follow. Such was the case in Thursday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup alpine combined (super G/slalom) for Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, VT), who led three Americans into the top 30 with a career-best 10^th place finish.

“It feels really good to kind of put it on the edge for the super G portion … I think I did pretty well with that,” said Cochran-Siegle, who finished 12^th coming from the 50^th start position in the morning super G. “Then in slalom, I just tried hanging in there. I think I skied pretty well once I got into the course, but the top was a little slow.  Those top guys are very, very good slalom skiers, so I’m pretty happy to be where I am.”

Indeed, those top guys are the cream of the crop, including France’s Alexis Pinturault, who won his sixth career alpine combined event Thursday. Austria’s Marcel Hirscher extended his overall World Cup lead after finishing second, as Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was third Brennan Rubie (Salt Lake City, UT) also posted a career-best day, finishing one position behind Cochran-Siegle in 11^th.

“I’ve had a couple close races in super G this season, and I’m feeling really balanced on my skis, and today it came together in super combined,” Rubie said.

Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, CA) also scored World Cup points, finishing 26^th.

For Cochran-Siegle, Thursday’s result has been a long time coming after missing a few seasons due to injuries.

“I definitely feel like I’m finally getting to where I wanted to be like four years ago,” Cochran-Siegle said. “I had a little hiccup that took a while come back, but the way that I’m skiing and the way that I feel ... I have a lot of confidence right now, which is pretty key in ski racing.”

Up next, the men will enjoy a week off, returning to competition on Thursday, Jan. 6 with an evening slalom in Zagreb, Croatia.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Ryan Cochran-Siegle posted a career-best World Cup result in 10^th at Thursday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup alpine combined
• Brennan Rubie also posted a career-best World Cup result in 11^th place
• France’s Alexis Pinturault won his sixth career alpine combined event Thursday
• Road to Aspen: Austria’s Marcel Hirscher increased his overall World Cup lead to 231 points over Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud

QUOTES
Ryan Cochran-Siegle
It feels really good to kind of put it on the edge for the super G portion … I think I did pretty well with that. Then in slalom, I just tried hanging in there. I think I skied pretty well once I got into the course, but the top was a little slow.  Those top guys are very, very good slalom skiers, so I’m pretty happy to be where I am.

I definitely feel like I’m finally getting to where I wanted to be like four years ago. I had a little hiccup that took a while come back, but the way that I’m skiing and the way that I feel ... I have a lot of confidence right now, which is pretty key in ski racing.

Brennan Rubie
I’ve had a couple close races in super G, and I’m feeling really balanced on my skis, and today it came together in super combined.

I’ve had a lot of close races this year, and to put two runs together, it means a lot. So I’m really excited to get down with two good runs.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Thursday, Dec. 29
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s Combined – UniversalHD

RESULTS
Men’s alpine combined

PARK CITY, UT (Dec. 28, 2016) – Aspiring ski and snowboard athletes will have expanded opportunities as a result of collaborative partnerships between the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and its leading clubs, academy programs, resorts and sport performance facilities. The USSA has announced a four-level program to provide both regional and training opportunities through co-branding with those programs.

“Our U.S. skiers and snowboarders have long benefitted from the efforts and generosity of clubs, academies, resorts and individuals across the nation,” said USSA President and CEO Tiger Shaw. “Collectively, these formal and informal partnerships have enabled the raising of our talented young athletes village by village, over many decades.”

To help further develop these relationships, the USSA has been evolving, defining and expanding partnership types, purposes and opportunities to co-brand with its clubs, academies and resorts. The relationships include regional and national development efforts providing unique on and off-snow training facilities and opportunities for club, regional and national teams. Among the new programs are initiatives to replicate elements of the USSA Center of Excellence at regional locations.

The USSA will be offering a national program of partnerships to its gold and silver level clubs, as well as ski and snowboard areas, in four different categories:

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Development Sites – On-snow training sites providing suitable venues to be used by the USSA for national development and regional athlete training, as well as being made available for nearby clubs.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Training Sites – On-snow training sites providing specialized venues suited for elite-level training and actively used by the national team.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team High Performance Centers – High performance, off-snow centers and facilities focused on developing regional and future national team athletes operated under USSA standards by USSA gold and silver clubs.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Certified Center of Excellence – High level partnership, including embedded USSA high performance staff, emulating the USSA’s national Center of Excellence in Park City, serving elite national team and regional athletes at locations such as regional medical and sport performance centers.

“These non-exclusive, broad partnerships are part of a long-term plan to facilitate the development and use of training venues and high performance training opportunities for national and regional athletes at both the elite and development levels,” said USSA Executive Vice President, Athletics Luke Bodensteiner. “We’re partnering with unique facilities and venues that provide the specialized training our athletes need and are accessible to a wide array of athletes. We will continue to build the program with partners capable of providing facilities and venues that will enhance our ability to train our elite teams and develop future elite athletes.”

The USSA began the process two years ago in a partnership with the Mittersill race and training center project, a further revitalization of the western side of Cannon Mountain in Franconia, NH that created super G, giant slalom and slalom regional opportunities. It was the beginning of simplifying and reorganizing some of USSA’s existing agreements to fall into these four categories.

The addition of the development site at Burke and the high performance center partnership with the new Ronnie Berlack Center at Burke Mountain Academy, named in honor of the late U.S. Ski Team athlete who was killed in an avalanche in Austria, was timed to celebrate Ronnie’s life and the opening ceremony of the center. The USSA is working with its gold and silver clubs to expand these partnerships throughout this season.

Current national team training site partners include the alpine team’s European training base in Soelden, Austria and the U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain, CO. A unique partnership with California’s Mammoth Mountain provides training access for freeskiing and snowboarding athletes at its Unbound Terrain Park as does Utah’s Deer Valley Resort for freestyle skiing athletes. U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team training sites often provide highly valuable off-season and early season preparation opportunities.

“We are seeking unique opportunities to enhance training for our top athletes,” said Bodensteiner. “Our history of being able to use facilities such as Soelden, Copper, Deer Valley and Mammoth has had great impact on our athletes.”

One of the key components to the partnership plan is the extension of educational information and fostering of exchanges of best practices among the USSA’s top clubs.

“Through our work at the Center of Excellence, we have developed a remarkable catalog of data and education through the work we do with elite national team athletes,” said USSA High Performance Director Troy Taylor. “These partnerships will help us do two things: First, it’s a platform for us to share our information with clubs but, even more importantly, it’s designed to start an exchange of information from our very knowledgeable club programs with each other. Especially as we add more regional high performance centers, we look to them to actively engage with each other.”

The USSA has long been regarded as a leader in high performance programs within Olympic sport worldwide. The Utah-based sports organization made a commitment to sport science over two decades ago, leading up to the opening of the Center of Excellence in 2009 in Park City.

“Our Center of Excellence and overall commitment to high performance programs has been core to our athletic success,” said USSA President and CEO Tiger Shaw. “But for us to truly impact athletes across such a large country, including those in our development system, we need to develop a program regional centers and foster exchange of best practices across our top clubs in America.”

USSA HIGH PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Development Sites
The Development Site program is focused on development athletes and regional programs. Participating regional sites provide development level and regional team athletes with access to on-snow facilities near their homes, fostering more efficient and cost-effective programs that will be more impactful for development athletes.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Training Sites
The USSA’s national teams, across a wide range of distinct sports, have unique and specific high-level requirements for on-snow training. Training sites provide specific infrastructure for on-snow elite athlete training, with support in venue development, snowmaking and surface preparation. Training sites also provide access for national team athletes and coaches to camps and training at major national and regional resorts that can cater to the unique training needs of the national teams. The U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain in Colorado, European alpine training base in Soelden, Austria, southern hemisphere summer training center on Ohau, New Zealand, freestyle training at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort and specialized training at Mammoth Mountain’s Unbound Terrain Park in California are examples of training centers that are making a formidable difference for national team athletes.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team High Performance Center
While the national Center of Excellence has fostered development of extraordinary high performance tools, the USSA sees club or academy regional high performance centers as key to creating a sharing of best practices across the country. High Performance Centers will focus on sport science and sports medicine at regional facilities managed by USSA gold or silver level clubs and meeting specific staffing and infrastructure requirements. The long-term success will be based on an exchange of best practices between centers around the country.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Certified Center of Excellence
The USSA’s national Center of Excellence in Park City provides high performance services to national team athletes through high-level integration of sport science and sports medicine programs. The Certified Center of Excellence program will seek to establish centers in areas of high elite athlete populations, focusing on regional medical and sport performance centers capable of and committed to providing the national Center of Excellence experience at expanded locations through embedding U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team high performance staff and facilities with similar support as found in the national center. 

SEMMERING, Austria (Dec. 28, 2016) – Wet, heavy snow can’t slow you down when you’re having fun. Just ask Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO), who battled through a snowstorm to win her second giant slalom in a row at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Wednesday in Semmering.

“There was so much snow coming down, I could feel my skis in the track speeding up, and then coming out slowing down,” Shiffrin said.  “And I was like ‘oh, this isn’t good, it’s gotta be slow!’ So I kept fighting and fighting.”

Mikaela Shiffrin won her second-straight Audi FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom in Semmering, Austria, Tuesday. (Getty/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

World Cup giant slalom leader Tessa Worley of France was second, followed by Germany’s Viktoria Rebensburg in third.  With the victory, Shiffrin is now 35 points behind Worley in the World Cup GS standings. In the overall World Cup standings, Shiffrin leads with 698 points. Switzerland’s Lara Gut, who was sixth Wednesday, is second with 583 points.

Skiing free and letting go has propelled Shiffrin to the top step of the podium the past two days in giant slalom.

“Before I was really trying to ski just a perfect run,” she said of earlier races in Killington, Vermont and Sestriere, Italy. “In these past few races I’ve thought ‘I have what I have’ and probably some of these other girls are better GS skiers than I am right now. But when I make really good turns, I think that I can win. So I just put what I have out there, don’t try to do anything more special than that, and also have some fun skiing good GS.”

Mikaela Shiffrin stands atop the podium in Semmering. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

Shiffrin takes her overall World Cup lead into Thursday’s evening slalom in Semmering where she’s be gunning for her 26^th World Cup victory, including her seventh-straight slalom win – one shy of the record eight-race slalom win streak held by Switzerland’s Vreni Schneider and Croatia’s Janica Kostelic.

“I’m not looking at the records,” Shiffrin said. “I’m just happy to have another giant slalom win. Two days ago I was wondering if I would ever win a GS again, and now I have three wins, so that is a really special feeling that I have. “

Up next, the ladies compete in an evening slalom on Thursday. Live streaming will be available on NBCsports.com/live starting at 9:00 a.m. EST.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Mikaela Shiffrin won her second-straight Audi FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom Wednesday in Semmering, Austria.
• World Cup giant slalom leader Tessa Worley of France finished second.
• Shiffrin goes for her seventh-straight slalom victory in Thursday’s evening slalom in Semmering.
• Resi Stielger (Jackson, WY) and Megan McJames (Park City, UT) did not qualify for a second run. 
• Road to Aspen: Shiffrin leads the overall World Cup standings with 698 points over Switzerland’s Lara Gut with 583 points

QUOTES
Mikaela Shiffrin
It was a big fight. There was so much snow coming down, I could feel my skis in the track speeding up, and then coming out slowing down.  And I was like ‘oh, this isn’t good, it’s gotta be slow.’ So I kept fighting and fighting.

I’m not looking at the records. I’m just happy to have another giant slalom win. Two days ago I was wondering if I would ever win a GS again, and now I have three wins, so that is a really special feeling that I have.

Before I was really trying to ski just a perfect run. In these past few races I’ve thought ‘I have what I have’ and probably some of these other girls are better GS skiers than I am right now. But when I make really good turns, I think that I can win. So I just put what I have out there, don’t try to do anything more special than that, and also have some fun skiing good GS.

I finally made really clean turns on the hill the past few days, which is unbelievable for me. It’s a huge milestone, so I’m really happy with that. I’m smiling more these past few days than I have all season so far.

[On winning two-straight GS races]
It’s two victories, but in the same place.  It would be nice to repeat it at a new venue, but it’s definitely nice to feel like I can ski free for four runs in a row.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Wednesday, Dec. 28
4:30 p.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – UniversalHD

Thursday, Dec. 29
9:00 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
11:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 2 – LIVE on NBCSN and LIVE STREAM

RESULTS
Women’s giant slalom

SANTA CATERINA, Italy (Dec. 28, 2016) – Strong winds forced the cancellation of Wednesday’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup Downhill.

Following two start delays, the winds wouldn’t let up and the forecast didn’t improve, so unfortunately, the only option left was to cancel the downhill.

With two cancellations already this season (Lake Louise – rescheduled in Kvitfjell / Beaver Creek – rescheduled in Val d’Isre) and a very tight World Cup calendar, the Santa Caterina downhill will not be replaced on the calendar. So the 2016/17 season will now have eight downhills instead of nine.

The sun was shining, but the wind was howling as #AmericanDownhillers await a snowcat ride for course inspection Wednesday. (USSA)

Up next, the men race alpine combined Thursday in Santa Caterina. Live streaming will be available on NBCsports.com/live starting at 5:45 a.m. EST.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Thursday, Dec. 29
4:30 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – super G – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
8 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – slalom – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s Combined – UniversalHD 

SEMMERING, Austria (Dec. 27, 2016) – Maybe it wasn’t perfect, but it was fast and capped off with a double fist pump and celebratory “Yeah!”

Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) won her second career Audi FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom race Tuesday in Semmering, a make up event from last week’s race that was canceled due to wind in Courchevel, France.

“Today I felt really good just going for it,” Shiffrin said when asked about her reaction coming across the finish line and realizing she had won. “I wasn’t trying to ski perfect; I was just trying to ski fast. I believed in myself for the first time in a GS race, and that was very emotional.

Shiffrin celebrates in the finish after winning the GS. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

“So many times in GS I think, ‘Oh man, I won that by two seconds!’ And then I see that I’m two seconds behind, and I’m like, uh-oh, that’s embarrassing,” added Shiffrin, who’s other GS victory was in Soelden in 2014. “I never really know for sure, but I had a feeling because I was fighting for it. But I was surprised when I saw the green light, and it was a really nice feeling.”

Tessa Worley of France was second, followed by Manuela Moelgg of Italy in third. Switzerland’s Lara Gut was fourth.

Shiffrin extended her five-point overall World Cup lead over Gut to 55 points with Tuesday’s win. She also moved into second in the overall giant slalom World Cup standings, just 55 points behind Worley, and admitted that there is a chance she could compete for the overall giant slalom title.

“At this point there is still a chance,” she said. “But I have to ski really, really well in every race for the rest of the season. Right now, I’m just trying my best to fight in each race and have fun with it. Today was really fun, and I like that feeling.”

Overall World Cup GS Leader Tessa Worley of France, left, was second, Mikaela Shiffrin first and Italy’s Manuela Moelgg third at Tuesday’s Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup giant slalom. (Getty/Agence Zoom-Laurent Salino)

Up next, the ladies compete in another giant slalom Wednesday in Semmering, followed by an evening slalom on Thursday. Live streaming will be available on NBCsports.com/live starting at 4:30 a.m. EST Wednesday.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Mikaela Shiffrin won her second career World Cup giant slalom Tuesday in Semmering, Austria.
• This is Shiffrin's first solo giant slalom victory. Her first giant slalom victory was shared with Anna Veith (then Fenninger) in Soelden, Austria on October 25, 2014.
• Shiffrin’s win was her 24^th overall World Cup victory.
• Resi Stielger (Jackson, WY) hit a rock first run and did not finish. Megan McJames (Park City, UT) did not qualify for second run.
• Road to Aspen: Shiffrin holds a 55-point lead over Switzerland’s Lara Gut in the overall World Cup standings.
• Tessa Worley of France leads the overall World Cup giant slalom standings by 55 points over Shiffrin.

QUOTES
Mikaela Shiffrin
I keep training GS; eventually I have to get good at it, right? That’s my philosophy. Slalom, I make sure to ski it every now and then, but I’ve been doing a lot of GS and hopefully it helps my GS and doesn’t hurt my slalom too much.

[On competing for the overall World Cup title]
I think about it and it’s a dream to win. But I’m not expecting to win this year. Lara (Gut) is so strong in every event, and her GS has been really strong too. But I’m just trying to focus on giant slalom and slalom and see what happens.

Today I felt really good just going for it. I wasn’t trying to ski perfect; I was just trying to ski fast. I believed in myself for the first time in a GS race, and that was very emotional. To win, that’s amazing. But I don’t expect to win every GS now.

So many times in GS I think, ‘Oh man, I won that by two seconds!’ And then I see that I’m two seconds behind, and then I’m like, uh-oh, that’s embarrassing. I never really know for sure, but I had a feeling because I was fighting for it. But I was surprised when I saw the green light, and it was a really nice feeling.

[On competing for the giant slalom World Cup title]
At this point, there is still a chance. But I have to ski really, really well in every race for the rest of the season. Right now, I’m just trying my best to fight in each race and have fun with it. Today was really fun, and I like that feeling.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Tuesday, Dec. 27
9 p.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – UniversalHD

Wednesday, Dec. 28
4:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 2 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
4:30 p.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – UniversalHD

Thursday, Dec. 29
9:00 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
11:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 2 – LIVE on NBCSN and LIVE STREAM

RESULTS
Women’s giant slalom

SANTA CATERINA, Italy (Dec. 27, 2016) – The Audi FIS Ski World Cup circuit resumed Tuesday with a make up race on a steep, dark and challenging course. But none of that mattered to Tommy Biesemeyer (Keene, NY), who posted a career-best eighth-place finish to lead five Americans into the top 30 Tuesday.

“Everybody here is a good skier, but I actually believe that I’m a great skier!” Biesemeyer said. “I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but I’m just really trying to focus on my abilities, my skiing characteristics, and a hill like this I think plays to my advantage where I can channel my innate skiing ability into a technical, steep, dark and intimidating hill.”

Originally scheduled for rolling slopes of Lake Louise, Canada, Santa Caterina picked up the event ahead of Wednesday’s downhill and Thursday’s alpine combined, challenging the field with the most technical track of the season so far. Apparently none of that mattered to Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, CA) either, as he scored the first World Cup super G points of his career in 20^th place, from the 60^th start position.

Bryce Bennett skied to a 20^th-place finish in Tuesday’s super G. (Getty/Agence Zoom-Christophe Pallot)

Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud won his 18^th World Cup race Tuesday by more than a half second over Austria’s Hannes Reichelt, who finished second. It was Jansrud’s third-straight super G victory this season. Italy’s Dominik Paris was third. Other American finishers included Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, NY) in 12^th; Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) 24^th; Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT) 30^th; and Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, VT) 33^rd.

“The course is just dark from top to bottom. There is a little bit of light in the middle on the flat parts ... it’s tough, it’s all there. It’s actually our toughest course on the tour just because of the way they prepare the snow and the darkness,” said Weibrecht, who was stoked with his finish following last week’s disappointing results and a sprained ankle a few days ago.

“I just relaxed and let it go and tried to make good turns,” Weibrecht added. “I skied really well on top, but down toward the bottom I made a couple of mistakes. But it’s a solid result, so I’m happy.”

Up next, the men race downhill Wednesday in Santa Caterina. Live streaming will be available on NBCsports.com/live starting at 5:45 a.m. EST. Former American Downhiller, Marco Sullivan — who just recently got engaged to former Canadian Alpine skier Anna Goodman — will make his broadcast debut tonight on Universal HD at 7:30 p.m. EST with the super G, and again with tomorrow's downhiill.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Tommy Biesemeyer scored a career-best World Cup result in eighth place to lead four Americans into the top 30.
• Biesemeyer’s previous best World Cup result with 11^th in super G at Beaver Creek in 2015.
• Bryce Bennett scored his first World Cup super G points, finishing 20^th from the 60^th start position.
• Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud won his 18^th World Cup race Tuesday.
• Jansrud has won all three super G’s this season and leads the World Cup super G standings with 300 points. Dominik Paris is second with 152 points.
• Road to Aspen: Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, who finished 47^th Tuesday, leads the overall World Cup standings with 633 points. Jansrud is second with 482 points.

QUOTES
Tommy Biesemeyer
All in all, I’m really proud of my race today.  Since the start of the year, I haven’t really connected my training to racing, and today I felt like I moved in that direction. If I’m going to be stingy and want more, I know that my skiing today wasn’t my true best, so that’s really motivating as well. But to walk away from here with a top 10 is amazing. It feels so good! I’m going to sleep well tonight. I’m really happy that I can build off this event.

Everybody here is a good skier, but I actually believe that I’m a great skier! I don’t mean to sound arrogant, but I’m just really trying to focus on my abilities, my skiing characteristics and a hill like this I think plays to my advantage where I can channel my innate skiing ability into a technical, steep, dark and intimidating hill.

Travis Ganong
I thought it was going to be really tough and really challenging, and it was really easy at the top. So I kind of over-skied it and had the wrong idea going into it. The bottom, I skied pretty well, but the top part was way easier than I thought. It wasn’t a good race for me today.

[Looking ahead to Wednesday’s downhill]
In the only training run (Monday) I tweaked my knee pretty bad on the sixth or seventh gate, and I didn’t finish. My knee hurt a lot (in Tuesday’s super G), so it’s not perfect, but I’ll probably try to do the downhill tomorrow and see how it goes.

The bottom section really suits my style of skiing and I can find a lot of speed there, it’s just a matter of figuring out the top.

Andrew Weibrecht
I just relaxed and let it go and tried to make good turns. I skied really well on top, but down toward the bottom I made a couple of mistakes. But it’s a solid result, so I’m happy.

The course is just dark from top to bottom. There is a little bit of light in the middle on the flat parts ... it’s tough, it’s all there. It’s actually our toughest course on the tour just because of the way they prepare the snow and the darkness.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Tuesday, Dec. 27
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s super G – UniversalHD

Wednesday, Dec. 28
5:45 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s downhill – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
3 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s downhill – UniversalHD

Thursday, Dec. 29
4:30 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – super G – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
8 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – slalom – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s Combined – UniversalHD

RESULTS
Men’s Super G

SEMMERING, Austria (Dec. 26, 2016) – The holiday flew by on the Audi FIS Ski World Cup circuit. With the rescheduled giant slalom race from Courchevel for the women and super G from Lake Louise for the men, there wasn’t much time for celebration and relaxation. Even so, the athletes made the most of their time, celebrating with teammates and family before moving on to Semmering and Santa Caterina, Italy.

On the women’s side, the tour returns to the iconic Semmering giant slalom/slalom venue outside Vienna for three races, including an important night slalom for Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) on Thursday. Shiffrin will look to build on her win streak, which is at six successive wins following her victory in Sestriere.

Mikaela Shiffrin last competed in a night slalom race at Semmering, Austria in 2012. (Getty/Agence Zoom-Christophe Pallot)

In giant slalom, there’s a lot to be jazzed about. All eyes will be on the Italians, France’s Tessa Worley, Switzerland’s Lara Gut and Austria’s Anna Veith (formerly Fenninger) – who returns to World Cup action after sitting the entire 2015-16 season out with a knee injury. Her last race was on March 22, 2015, when she won the giant slalom in Mribel, France. All races will be streamed live on NBC Sports with the second run in Thursday's slalom now set for live broadcast on NBCSN.

The men will encounter a different, less jolly version of Santa, when they kick off their speed series at Santa Caterina, Italy. The week opens Tuesday with a makeup of the Lake Louise super G, with a downhill Wednesday and alpine combined Thursday.

Last year, this track was gnarly, dark and relentless and Italy's Christof Innerhofer stole the show with a Bode-style downhill performance. In 2014, Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) snagged his career-first win in the Santa Caterina downhill. This season, the snow is a bit less bumpy than last year, but the track is inconsistent with slick spots mixed with grippy sections.

“It’s bumpy, it’s icy, it’s dark – it’s like the first real test of the year,” Ganong said of the Santa Caterina track. “It’s really not easy. Hopefully I can do what I did two years ago and have a good day.”

The American Downhillers had a unique opportunity to train with the Italians on the track prior to the holiday. In Monday's first and only downhill training Steven Nyman (Sundance, UT) was 13^th and Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, CA) 27^th. Tommy Biesemeyer (Keene, NY) clocked the fourth-fastest time, but was disqualified. His skiing is solid, though, so the speed should give him some confidence going into Tuesday’s super G. Ganong caught an edge, nearly did the splits, but is OK and will start tomorrow.

The Attacking Viking Aksel Lund Svindal – current leader in the downhill standings – surprised everyone when he announced he’d be sitting Santa Caterina out to rest his knee.  

Universal HD and NBCSN will cover all of the action this week, with the second run in Thursday's slalom in Semmering set for live broadcast on NBCSN. Live streaming of all races will be available on NBCsports.com/live.

Road to Aspen Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals
Austrian Marcel Hirscher is bringing a 251-point lead over Norway's Kjetil Jansrud into the Santa Caterina race week. Jansrud, who is two-for-two in super G this year, is likely to narrow that margin but unlikely to eclipse Hirscher who has been the dominant athlete so far this season in the race for the globe this March at Aspen. Mikaela Shiffrin still enjoys the lead - but only a narrow five-point margin over Swiss Lara Gut. But the real story going into Semmering is four women within 31 points. So the title chase remains wide open. It should be quite a battle with four straight tech events - three in Semmering then another in Zagreb, Croatia - before the tour moves back to speed in Altenmarkt, Austria in early January.

CONFIRMED STARTERS
Semmering, Austria - Women:
Megan McJames (Park City, UT) – GS, SL
Lila Lapanja (Incline Village, NV) – SL
Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) – GS, SL
Resi Stiegler (Jackson, WY) – GS, SL

Santa Caterina, Italy – Men: 
Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley, CA) – SG, DH, AC
Tommy Biesemeyer (Keene, NY) – SG, DH
Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, VT) – SG, AC
Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) – SG, DH
Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT) – SG, DH, AC
Steve Nyman (Sundance, UT) – SG, DH
Brennan Rubie (Salt Lake City, UT) – SG
Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, NY) – SG, DH

QUOTES
Steven Nyman
They prepared the slope quite well. The upper pitch has a few gates that are pretty icy, but other than that it’s nice. The snow is much more responsive and fun to ski on. Last year it was really bumpy, really icy and it was pretty ugly to watch. Today was a lot more fun to ski…I had two big mistakes, easy fixes and other than that my other splits were really good. So, if I clean that up I think I can do well here. It’s icy and bumpy those first few turns, but other than that it’s money.

Bryce Bennett
They made a couple of changes this year. The snow conditions have improved; the light has not improved. They kind of changed the course set up a little bit, so it flows a little better and the snow is easier so you can ski your own line and it’s pretty good. It was fun.

[On tricky sections of the course for fans to watch]
Yeah, the first 30 seconds of the course definitely. It features some big turns into some pretty fast half turns that are tough to commit to in the dark and they’re pretty bumpy and it’s injected up there. That top section is pretty firm. But, nothing too hard – it's just good skiing here…just move to the new ski and go.

Travis Ganong
It’s bumpy, it’s icy, it’s dark – it’s like the first real test of the year. It’s really not easy. Hopefully I can do what I did two years ago and have a good day. I’ve never skied the super G here before. This year so far I have two seventh places – one in downhill and one in super G – so they’re both working. We’ll see.

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
Tuesday, Dec. 27
3:45 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
5 a.m.  – Santa Caterina men’s super G – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 2 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s super G – UniversalHD (Marco Sullivan’s broadcast debut)
9 p.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – UniversalHD

Wednesday, Dec. 28
4:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
5:45 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s downhill – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
7:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – run 2 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
3 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s downhill – UniversalHD
4:30 p.m. – Semmering women’s giant slalom – UniversalHD

Thursday, Dec. 29
4:30 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – super G – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
8 a.m. – Santa Caterina men’s combined – slalom – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
9:00 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 1 – nbcsports.com – LIVE STREAM
11:30 a.m. – Semmering women’s slalom – run 2 – LIVE on NBCSN and LIVE STREAM
7:30 p.m. – Santa Caterina men’s Combined – UniversalHD

Live streaming available on NBCsports.com/Live and the NBC Sports app, which is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire.

MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, Italy (Dec. 22, 2016) – Santa came early this Christmas for the young AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece). Under the lights and in front of 16,000 screaming Italian fans at one of the longest-standing, most classic venues on the Audi FIS Ski World Cup circuit, Ginnis snagged his first World Cup points, finishing 26^th. David Chodounsky (Crested Butte, CO) finished 17^th.

For the second consecutive year, Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen and Austria’s Marcel Hirscher went 1-2, with Italy’s own Stefano Gross finishing third, 1.35 seconds out. No worries, Hirscher—no drones in sight this year. Instead, it was Ginnis who stunned the crowd, skiing a clean and solid first run, rocketing him from 58^th to 13^th.

“I was thinking about just keeping it on my outside ski and down the fall line,” reflected Ginnis after first run. “I’ve had a turbulent month to say the least, so I’m just trying to simplify everything and put a good run together. Madonna was my first World Cup two years ago, so it’s nice to come back here after I was injured last year and be able to perform like that.”

Ginnis’ coaches, Ian Lochhead and Sasha Rearick, have been working on simplifying it for Ginnis and his teammates. Which, as Rearick puts it, “…is just staying on the outside ski and letting the ski go down the fall line.” Well, it worked tonight at Madonna, on the big stage.

Rearick also gave props to Chodounsky, who made a good step in the right direction today with a top-20 finish and solid skiing going into the January slalom season. After failing to finish at both Levi and Val d’Isere, it seems Chodounsky has shaken off the cobwebs and gained some confidence going into Zagreb, Croatia on January 5.

David Chodounsky finished 17th in Thursday’s slalom under the lights at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. (Getty Images/Agence Zoom-Alexis Boichard)

“I made it down, had some mistakes second run, but I was charging more and felt a lot more comfortable,” noted Chodounsky. “No matter how much confidence or how much training you’ve had in the summer, once you get that first finish, it kind of shakes the cobwebs off. I’ll be ready come next slalom. I’m happy with it.”

The men’s tech team has struggled in recent years to find the flow in slalom and get multiple guys in the points, so today’s performance was a definite positive, and for the young Ginnis, it was “the best Christmas gift he could have given himself.”

When asked who the first person he was going to call is, he said without hesitation, “My mom for sure…I’m sure she’s up watching already. I wish she was here!” Fitting, as he was wearing a Shred helmet with a paint job by the one and only Jeannie Ginnis—his mother.

Robby Kelley (Starksboro, VT) and Michael Ankeny (Deephaven, MN) did not qualify for second run. Mark Engel (Truckee, CA) did not finish first run.

The men’s tech team will take a break for the holidays before traveling over to Zagreb, Croatia for a slalom on Thursday, January 5.

HIGHLIGHTS

• AJ Ginnis (Vouliagmeni, Greece) grabbed his first World Cup points on the same track where he made his World Cup debut in December 2014.
• Ginnis was sidelined for much of the 2016 season with a torn meniscus.
• David Chodounsky was the top finisher for the Americans, in 17^th, grabbing his first World Cup slalom points of the season.
• Madonna di Campiglio is one of the venues that has been with the Audi FIS Ski World Cup circuit since the beginning, in 1966-67 when the World Cup was founded. This season, the World Cup celebrates its 50^th birthday.
• Road to Aspen: Marcel Hirscher’s second place in Madonna di Campiglio helps him maintain the lead in the overall at the midpoint of the season by a large margin over Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud—633 points to Jansrud’s 382 points. Hirscher is leading the slalom standings, with 260 points over Norway’s Henrik Kristofferson's 200 points as we head into a heavy slalom month in January.
• The men’s World Cup tour will take a break for the holidays before traveling over to Zagreb, Croatia for a slalom on Thursday, January 5.

QUOTES

David Chodounsky
[On his performance]
I made it down, had some mistakes second run, but I was charging more and felt a lot more comfortable. No matter how much confidence or how much training you’ve had in the summer, once you get that first finish it kind of shakes the cobwebs off. I’ll be ready come next slalom. I’m happy with it. I’ll take it.

[On AJ scoring his first World Cup points]
It’s great. We’ve been missing that for a long time. We have the speed, and hopefully this fires up the rest of the guys. They’ve been training together, so I have a feeling that if they see one guy make it in, they know they can be just as fast because they are in training. Hopefully that fuels them. It’s great. It looked liked he was skiing with some nerves second run, but good for him, he made it down with World Cup points. Congrats to him!

AJ Ginnis
[On his performance first run]
I was thinking about just keeping it on my outside ski and down the fall line. I’ve had a turbulent month, to say the least, so I’m just trying to simplify everything and put a good run together. Madonna was my first World Cup two years ago, so it’s nice to come back here after I was injured last year and be able to perform like that.

[On how it feels to grab his first World Cup points]
Feels amazing…feels like the weight of the world’s been lifted off my shoulders. I was so nervous in that gate for the second run, but I’m so happy. This is the best Christmas present I could have given myself.

[On whom he’ll call first]
My mom for sure…I’m sure she’s up watching already. I wish she was here!

Sasha Rearick – Head Men’s Coach
Good forward step for the team today. Daver has gone out in the last two races, and it’s always tough being a slalom skier and going out. He had a solid first run…second run was a dead-straight course and you basically just had to keep the skis in the fall line and go like hell. Impressive job by (Henrik) Kristoffersen and the guys on the top steps there doing that. Daver did a good job of doing that about halfway down the course to the bottom, on the top just over-skied it. Positive step in the right direction for David as we go into slalom season in January.

Impressive first run by AJ…he just did exactly what he’s been doing in training, which is just staying on the outside ski and letting the ski go down the fall line. He did a great job of that in the first run…second run, definitely the first time there, nerves got him. He admitted he was nervous. But to get that monkey off his back—congrats to him.

RESULTS
Men’s slalom

BROADCAST AND LIVE STREAMING (times EST)
10:00 p.m. – Madonna di Campiglio slalom – Universal HD

Live streaming available on NBCsports.com/Live and the NBC Sports app, which is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire.

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