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We are getting into the peak of winter, however downhill snowboarding comes alive within the subsequent few days with a bunch of necessary races. Here’s what to search for:
Record-breaking seek for Mikaela Shiffrin continues
After final weekend’s weekend, Shiffrin is resuming his efforts to single-handedly maintain the report for girls’s world championship wins in northern Italy. The 27-year-old American has already reached the rostrum eight instances this season and is the same as the retired Lindsey Vonn with 82 profession victories. Shiffrin will compete within the downhill on Friday and Saturday and the super-G on Sunday at Cortina d’Ampezzo, venue of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
These “fast” disciplines should not Shiffrin’s finest – 83 % of her wins come from the extra technical slalom and big slalom. But she does not miss the quickest cross-country snowboarding. Shiffrin gained gold within the super-G on the 2019 World Championships and bronze two years later. She captured the Super G world title within the 2018-19 season when she gained in Cortina and has a complete of eight profession wins in Super G and Downhill.
Friday’s descent shall be a busy stretch for Shiffrin, throughout which the World Cup general chief will compete seven instances in 10 days. After three races in Cortina, she is going to journey to a different Italian stadium for the large slalom on Tuesday and Wednesday. She then travels to the Czech Republic for a few slaloms (her specialty) the next weekend earlier than the World Championships in France. If and when Shiffrin overtakes Vonn, she is going to set her sights on the Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark’s report of 86 World Championship wins.
Veteran Marie-Michel Gagnon was Canada’s high feminine skier within the girls’s pace occasion, ending twentieth within the super-G and thirty first within the downhill this season. Valerie Grenier, who edged out Shiffrin to win the large slalom earlier this month, is more likely to compete within the super-G solely. She hasn’t been a severe contender in downhill competitors since her devastating downhill crash in 2019.
All three girls’s races are streamed stay on CBCSports.ca, on the CBC Sports app and on CBC Gem. ET.
The scariest ski race is again
Monstrous male descent on Hahnenkamm a mountain in Kitzbühel, Austria has induced a number of near-death experiences, together with Canadian Brian Stemmle’s infamous crash in 1989 Another The terrible fall of Todd Brooker in ’87. in Hahnenkamminsidious stripes the observe is neither the longest nor the quickest on the World Cup observe – that might be dizzying Lauberhorn downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland, held over the weekend. But stripes attracts the very best skiers on this planet like no different with its brutal mixture of steepness, turns and lengthy jumps (riders may be within the air at a top of as much as 60 meters). The terrain can also be unusually uneven, making it simple to catch a ski and tumble at terrifying speeds.
But the reward for victory is nice. Tens of hundreds of spectators go to Hahnenkamm down the hill and thousands and thousands of individuals in Europe are watching it stay on tv. Champions deserve respect not solely from the followers, but in addition from their friends. The legendary Mad Canucks of the Nineteen Eighties. made their bones by winning it four years in a row. In quick, it’s the most coveted title within the sport.
The predominant contender from Canada is Jack Crawford. An all-around bronze medalist on the 2022 Olympics and fourth in downhill, Crawford is fourth within the downhill World Cup standings after making two podium finishes final month. The 25-year-old continues to be searching for his first World Cup win.
in stripes A double dose of worry awaits you this yr as there are males’s downhill runs right here on Fridays and Saturdays. Watch them each stay at 5:30 AM ET on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and the CBC Gem. These platforms can even stream Sunday’s slalom stay at 4:30 AM ET.
Find out extra about what makes the Hahnenkamm descent so scary by studying this account is in first person Canadian former ski racer Manny Osborne-Paradise and observer This Video concerning the “beautiful chaos” of Kitzbühel.
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