Skiing

3/11/2025 |  Ski jumping-Norway suspends coach and one other over cheating at World Ski Championships (Reuters Sports) March 11 (Reuters) - The Norwegian Ski Federation has suspended two staff, including the team coach, after the governing body admitted that the country's ski jumping team cheated by manipulating jumpsuits at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim.

3/7/2025 |  Italy’s Paris wins World Cup downhill to prevent Swiss sweep, Odermatt closes in on overall title (Associated Press (AP)) KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Dominik Paris prevented a Swiss sweep of the podium by winning a men’s World Cup downhill race on Friday, but the Italian veteran couldn’t stop Marco Odermatt from closing in on another overall title.
Paris claimed his record-extending fourth World Cup win in Kvitfjell after speeding down the 1994 Olympics slope in 1 minute, 44.67 seconds, beating Odermatt by 0.32 seconds and Stefan Rogentin by 0.63.
Odermatt’s second-place finish all but seals another overall title for the 27-year-old Swiss star. The three-time defending champion’s 80 race points put him 440 ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen, who does not race downhill or super-G, and 655 clear of Swiss teammate Loïc Meillard.

3/5/2025 |  How Ski Brand Salomon Hit $1B in Sneaker Sales (Front Office Sports) Salomon, born in 1947 in the French alpine town of Annecy, is synonymous with skiing and hiking gear. 
But in 2024, the brand sold more than $1 billion in shoes for the first time. And $300 million of those sales were from its lifestyle category. This is the fastest growing part of Salomon’s footwear business, Laurent Vasilescu, retail analyst at BNP Paribas Exane, told Front Office Sports.

2/27/2025 |  Cross-country skiing- Klaebo, Sundling dominate to claim sprint golds at world championships (Reuters Sports) TRONDHEIM, Norway, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo and Jonna Sundling of Sweden dominated as they won the men's and women's sprint finals at the Nordic Ski World Championships on Thursday, with both retaining the titles they won in Planica in 2023.
Francesco Pellegrino of Italy took silver and Finland's Lauri Vuorinen the bronze in the men's race, while Norway's Kristine Stavaas Skistad claimed silver and Nadine Faehndrich won a surprise bronze for Switzerland in the women's event.

2/24/2025 |  Nordic combined, the only Winter Games sport without gender equity, faces shaky future at Olympics (Associated Press (AP)) Nordic combined has a rich history in the Olympics and potentially, a bleak future.
Since the first Winter Games in 1924, the unique sport has tested the bravery and endurance of athletes in ski jumping and cross-country skiing.
A year from now, it might be a former Olympic sport.
“That’s a big concern — or a big issue — that we talk about,” four-time Olympic champion Joergen Graabak of Norway said in an interview with The Associated Press.