Italy's Federica Brignone celebrates winning the gold medal in a women's giant slalom, at the Alpine Ski World Championships, in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.

Italy's Federica Brignone is reflected in the trophy after winning the women's giant slalom season championship at the World Cup Finals, Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Sun Valley, Idaho.

The French skiing federation has provisionally suspended Joël Chenal, an Olympic silver medalist and a former national coach, ...

She spoke about "how much it hurt" and how "heartbreaking" it was when she failed to complete a giant slalom on Jan. 23, 2018, in the Kronplatz World Cup stop at San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy ...

Loic Meillard led teammate Marco Odermatt to a Swiss one-two in the men's giant slalom at the World Cup finals at Sun Valley, Idaho, on Wednesday. The World Cup finals conclude Thursday with men's ...

Mikaela Shiffrin is not yet competitive in her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation. Open Search.

1:45 a.m. ET – Women's giant slalom resumes. After over a quarter of the women's GS field skied out during the first run, the competition resumes in reverse order of the Run 1 standings. Current ...

The giant slalom was the first women’s Alpine race on the schedule in Beijing — Shiffrin intends to enter all five — and she was hardly the only racer to encounter trouble.

To help with getting back in the giant slalom start gate, she’s been working with a psychologist. Leading into world championships and the GS, she checked most of the boxes for PTSD symptoms.

On Friday, American racer Mikaela Shiffrin conquered her fears and returned to giant slalom months after she crashed in the discipline during a race in Killington, Vermont. Shiffrin, already the ...

Giant slalom – Longer than a slalom course, and the gates are not as close to each other. Compared to slalom, the distance between gates is 10 meters longer or more. ...

Sweden's Sara Hector, who leads the giant slalom World Cup standings, took 10th in the event four years ago. France's Tessa Worley, who is second in the World Cup standings, was seventh.