It was meant to be a celebratory final week of competition in the best season of her career. The celebrations ended abruptly for freshly crowned overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone when she broke multiple bones in her left leg during a giant slalom crash at the Italian championships on Thursday, 10 months before … Read more
Italian ski racer Federica Brignone wrapped up the season-long giant slalom title on Tuesday at the World Cup finals in a race won by Lara Gut-Behrami of Switzerland in Sun Valley, Idaho. Brignone needed to finish just 13th or better in the final run to clinch the discipline crown and wound up second. She finished … Read more
Federica Brignone all but locked up the women’s overall World Cup title by winning a super-G on Friday in La Thuile, Italy, giving the Italian a near-insurmountable lead in the season standings. Brignone extended her advantage over her only remaining challenger, defending champion Lara Gut-Behrami, to 382 points with four races left at the World … Read more
Federica Brignone closed the gap to leader Lara Gut-Behrami in the World Cup super-G standings to 45 points in a race on a shortened course won by German prodigy Emma Aicher on Thursday in La Thuile, Italy. Earning her second career win, Aicher edged Sofia Goggia by 0.06 seconds. Racing close to her Italian hometown … Read more
Federica Brignone is still a relentless winner in giant slalom races and Mikaela Shiffrin is still searching for form after her serious crash in November. Brignone was fastest in both runs of a World Cup giant slalom Saturday to score a dominating victory and take another big step toward a second career overall title. Shiffrin … Read more
Federica Brignone won an eventful women’s World Cup super-G on Sunday as the Italian skier capped a three-race weekend that extended her lead in the overall standings. In a tight finish, Brignone was 0.06 seconds faster than defending overall champion Lara Gut-Behrami at the Kvitfjell ski resort in Ringebu, Norway. “When I came down, I said: … Read more
Mikaela Shiffrin is not yet competitive in her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms. Federica Brignone is currently close to unbeatable. In just her second GS race Saturday three months after a serious crash, Shiffrin did not qualify for a second run for the first time since 2012 by placing outside the top 30 … Read more
Italian skier Federica Brignone won the first World Cup giant slalom after taking gold at the world championships on Friday, while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 25th in the American’s first race in the discipline in nearly 12 weeks. Brignone, who was ill over the past few days, beat runner-up Alice Robinson of New Zealand by 0.40 … Read more
Italy’s Federica Brignone won the giant slalom event at the alpine skiing world championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, on Thursday. Brignone posted a two-run combined time of two minutes 22.71 seconds, just nine-10ths of a second ahead of New Zealand’s Alice Robinson, who took the silver medal. American Paula Moltzan (+2.62) rounded out the podium in bronze-medal position. … Read more
