Explore Olympic Alpine skiing basics—learn about all events (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, combined), competition rules and how medals are won at the Winter Games.

In the fastest Alpine skiing race in Olympic history, Beat Feuz was quickest of all. The 35-year-old Swiss averaged a Winter Games record 68.7 mph to win the men’s downhill gold medal, his first in ...

WENGEN, Switzerland — It surely ranked among the best and most joyous five minutes in Alpine skiing history for the Swiss men's team and fans at the race they prize above all. Marco Odermatt, the ...

SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — American ski racer Bryce Bennett had more on his mind Friday than just learning a new World Cup downhill course. His wife is due Saturday with their first baby. That also ...

Lindsey Vonn raced to a stunningly fast win in a World Cup downhill at St. Moritz on Friday to earn her first victory in nearly eight years — and the first in her comeback with titanium implants in ...

ST MORITZ, Switzerland, Dec 10 (Reuters) - American great Lindsey Vonn, building towards an Olympic comeback at the age of 41, was fastest in training for the first women's downhill of the Alpine ...

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — The queen of downhill skiing is well and truly back. Lindsey Vonn put in a stunning fast run to take a huge lead in a World Cup downhill on Friday and looked set for her ...

Alpine ski great United States Lindsey Vonn watches the 10km women's mass start race of the Tour de Ski cross country, in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati) ...

In its simplest terms, alpine skiing is the type of skiing you'd probably describe if you were to try to tell a Martian about the sport. Technically, alpine skiing is just skiing downhill with your ...