Jaelin Kauf earned her 22nd podium in her 70th World Cup start under the lights at the 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort on Feb. 2. Champion took no prisoners, winning a few more rounds than usual against the world’s best moguls skiers. A steep transition from the top air into a nasty middle section marked by what became known as “rogules” - rogue moguls - proved a challenge many could not overcome. 

“The course was probably the toughest Champion course that I’ve ever seen, it was the most DNFs that I’ve ever seen [here],” commented Head Moguls World Cup Coach Bryon Wilson. 

“I was so stoked I was able to lay down some really solid and speedy runs and keep it together,” said Kauf from the finish. “This is such a challenging course, it always is. It seems like it was a little more challenging this year for some reason. But I was focused on landing that top air and getting on my toes. I can handle little bobbles or hits in that position.”

Kauf’s Super Finals run earned her a score of 77.35 to end the night in second place, with a huge score in speed of 19.96. She shared the podium with winner Anthony Jakara (Australia) and Perrine Laffont (France) in third. 

“Jaelin stepped up and skied super fast,” said Wilson. “She almost maxed out the speed points for this course. It was so impressive, so proud of her.”

Rookie and Park City local Dylan Marcellini in his third World Cup start made an impression on the Champion course with a fourth place finish, his career-first Super Finals appearance. “I really just came out here with no expectations and was just trying to ski my run as many times as I was able to,” Marcellini said. “I’ve been dreaming of this moment for years. To come out here and make Super Finals in my first-ever Deer Valley event feels unbelievable.”

Australia’s Matt Graham won for the men, Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury took second and France’s Benjamin Cavet rounded out the podium on third. 

It was a strong showing overall for the U.S. on their home course. A record seven women made it through to finals. Olivia Giaccio qualified in third as the top American woman and had a strong start in her finals run, but got stuck in the middle section and DNFd, finishing the night in 16th. Hannah Soar made it through to the Super Final round, but the middle section won the run and Soar DNFd to end the night in fifth. Tess Johnson tied her season-best result with a seventh place finish. Alli Macuga finished the night in 12th, Elizabeth Lemley finished 13th, and Kasey Hogg made her first finals appearance to finish in 14th. 

Kylie Kariotis finished 17th, Lulu Shaffer 22nd, and August Davis in her World Cup debut finished 24th. 

Four men represented the U.S. in finals: Marcellini, Charlie Mickel, Nick Page and Dylan Walczyk. Walczyk finished seventh, Cole McDonald 13th, Charlie Mickel 15th, Nick Page 29th, Garrett MArley 34th, Peyton Billeisen 40th, Ryan Tam 42nd, Landon Wendler did not finish. 

The 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International continues Friday with Aerials and Saturday with Dual Moguls. 

RESULTS
Women’s Moguls
Men’s Moguls

The FIS Alpine Ski World Championships in Courchevel-Meribel, France will be broadcast on NBC platforms and skiandsnowboard.live Feb. 6-19, 2023. The coverage by NBC is presented by Stifel and will feature live streaming on Peacock, five hours of  Alpine coverage on NBC and an additional 12 hours on CNBC covering Snowboard, Freeski and Freestyle.

Every race will stream live on Peacock and skiandsnowboard.live starting on Monday, February 6th from Meribel, France. NBC Sports’ Steve Schlanger and former Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team member Steve Porino will call all event broadcasts. NBC will also present four encore presentations: the women’s super-G, giant slalom, slalom and men’s downhill. Skiandsnowboard.live will house all races on-demand.

This year’s World Championships coverage is highlighted by Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team member Mikaela Shiffrin, a two-time Olympic champion, 11-time World Championship medal winner, and now the winningest woman World Cup skier in history with 85 Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup wins. The Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team also heads into the World Championships following a few podium performances in the 2022-23 season, one by Paula Moltzan in slalom and a downhill podium by Travis Ganong. The team is eager for a strong showing following the 2021 four-medal performance in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. 

The full World Championships team will be announced Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023.

How to Watch on Peacock

Step 1: Download PeacockTV 
FIS World Cup Championships is only available for viewing with a paid Peacock Premium subscription. So, create an account and subscribe to PeacockTV Premium for only $4.99/month with commercials or $9.99/month without, and have full access through live or on-demand and delayed coverage. 

Step 2: Find your events on PeacockTV 

1. Create an account
2. Subscribe to Peacock Premium 
3. Click on the sports tab, and scroll down the page until you see the section “Skiing and Snowboarding” 

How to Watch on skiandsnowboard.live 

You can watch all of the action on skiandsnowboard.live, which is owned by InFront. There will be live English commentary on all events and the events will be on-demand. 

The site is behind a paywall. To watch, there are four options. 

• All-access Monthly Pass: $15.99
• Discipline Monthly Pass: $8.99
• Pay-Per-View: $1.99/per event

Skiandsnowboard.live is offering a $4 discount on an All-access Monthly Pass for the World Championships with the code WSC2023.

2023 FIS World Ski Championships Live Coverage Presented by Stifel Schedule

All times EST
Check local listings, subject to change.

Monday, Feb. 6
5:00 a.m. - women's combined (super-G) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
8:30 a.m. - women's combined (slalom) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Tuesday, Feb. 7
5:00 a.m. - men's combined (super-G) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
8:30 a.m. - men's combined (slalom) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Wednesday, Feb. 8
5:30 a.m. - women's super-G - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Thursday, Feb. 9
5:30 a.m. - women's super-G - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 11
5:00 a.m. - women's downhill - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
2:30 p.m. - women's super-G - NBC* 

Sunday, Feb. 12
5:00 a.m. - men's downhill - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - men's downhill - NBC*

Tuesday, Feb. 14
6:15 a.m. - mixed team parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
11:00 a.m. - men's and women's parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Wednesday, Feb. 14
6:00 a.m. - men's and women's parallel slalom - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Thursday, Feb. 16
4:00 a.m. - women's giant slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - women's giant slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Friday, Feb. 17
4:00 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's giant slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live

Saturday, Feb. 18
4:00 a.m. - women's slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - women's slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
2:30 p.m. - women's giant slalom - NBC*

Sunday, Feb. 19
4:00 a.m. - men's slalom (run 1) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
7:30 a.m. - men's slalom (run 2) - Peacock, skiandsnowboard.live
3:00 p.m. - women's slalom - NBC*

*encore presentation 

Freestyle returns under the lights to Deer Valley Resort for its 25th year of elite competition at the 2023 Intermountain Health Freestyle International Feb. 2-4, 2023. The world’s most talented freestyle skiers will compete on the renowned 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games courses for three nights of unrivaled competition. Moguls kicks things off Thursday, aerials fly Friday, Feb 3, and dual moguls—the newest freestyle Olympic discipline—closes out the weekend on Saturday, Feb. 4.

STARTERS

Moguls

• Nick Page - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Cole McDonald - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Charlie Mickel - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Dylan Marcellini - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Dylan Walczyk - Ski and Snowboard Club Vail
• Ryan Tam - Olympic Valley Freestyle Team
• Garrett Marley - Ski and Snowboard Club Vail
• Landon Wendler - Wasatch Freestyle/Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club
• Peyton Billeisen - Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club

Women

• Elizabeth Lemley - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Olivia Giaccio - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Jaelin Kauf - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Tess Johnson - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Hannah Soar - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Kasey Hogg - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• Alli Macuga - U.S Freestyle D-Team
• August Davis - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Lulu Shaffer - Park City Ski and Snowboard/ Stratton Mountain School
• Kylie Kariotis - Park City Ski and Snowboard 

Aerials

Men 

• Chris Lillis - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Justin Schoenefeld - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Quinn Dehlinger - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Derek Krueger - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Connor Curran - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Ian Schoenwald - Park City Ski and Snowboard
• Ashton Salwan - Park City Ski and Snowboard

 Women 

• Ashley Caldwell - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Winter Vinecki - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Megan Nick - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Kaila Kuhn - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Dani Loeb - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Karenna Elliott - U.S Freestyle A-Team
• Megan Smallhouse - U.S Freestyle A-Team

HOW TO WATCH
All times EST

Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
4:25 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Friday, Feb. 3, 2023
5:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Aerials, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Aerials, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023 
11 a.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, delayed broadcast CNBC
6:15 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, qualifiers, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside
9:30 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, streaming LIVE on Outside

Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023
1 p.m. Intermountain Health Freestyle International, Men's and Women's Dual Moguls, finals, Deer Valley, UT, delayed broadcast NBC

At only 21 years old, Mac Forehand beat out the veterans of the sport when he landed a perfect 2160 Cuban in the men's ski big air contest at the 2023 X Games. 

Forehand, who won the X Games silver medal the day before in men's ski slopestyle, still had something left in his bag for the second-to-last competition of the X Games. With four attempts of the big air jump, Forehand never ventured out of the top three. In the strong field of 10 competitors, including teammates Alex Hall and Troy Podmilsak, Forehand had what it took to win. 

Alex Hall, who won the event in 2022, threw tricks that only AHall can do. Off the jump, Hall put down a switch dub 14 to knuckle switch butter 3. At the end of the night, Hall finished in seventh. Troy Podmilsak, a Rookie Team athlete, showed he deserved to be there. Before the contest even started, TPod landed a worlds-first switch dub bio 1980. An unbelievable feat for the rookie, Podmilsak is leaving his first X games with a sixth place. 

But the night went to Forehand. On the last jump of the night, Forehand landed a 2160 Cuban, meaning he spun through the air five and a half times while grabbing the back tip of his ski. Landing the trick perfectly, the crowd went wild. Forehand skied to the bottom of the jump with his head in his hands, waiting for his score, in complete disbelief. Seconds later, a 50 showed up on the screen - a perfect score. Forehand, with the X Games gold medal around his neck now looks forward to the next contest at Mammoth Mountain later this week. 

David Wise won X Games gold to close out the 2023 X Games in Aspen, Colo. Wise, who has competed in over 14 X Games, is once again walking away from the event with another gold medal in his bag. Under the lights of Buttermilk Mountain, the men's SuperPipe was the last event of the busy X Games schedule. With tens of thousands of fans surrounding the 22-foot-tall halfpipe, U.S. Freeski Team athletes Wise, Birk Irving, Alex Ferreira and Aaron Blunk put on a show. 

With four chances to land a perfect run, it was anyone's game. Through the first run, Wise landed all his tricks and was showing serious amplitude and creativity. Next up was hometown favorite Alex Ferreira. Uncharacteristically of Ferreira, he hit the deck of the pipe on his last hit and fell while attempting his left double cork 1620. After a minute or so on the ground, he skied down safely. But on the second run, it happened again and he eventually pulled out of the contest. Ferreira now focuses on the next contest at Mammoth Mountain. 

Irving, who is coming away from a second place the week before in Calgary, Canada showed the crowd he was ready to go big. With a clean double flat spin 720 in the middle of his run and ending with a left dub 1440, Irving ended up in second place, securing an X Games silver medal. The night before, his sister, Svea Irving, won X Games bronze in the women's ski SuperPipe - closing out a successful weekend for the Irving siblings. 

Aaron Blunk, known by the X Games community as the only skier to throw five doubles in all four directions in his run in 2022, went big. On Blunk's last trip through the pipe, it looked like he was in the right position to knock Jon Sallinen out of third place but just came up short, ending the night in fourth place. 

But the night was ultimately won by Wise. Wise is now a five-time X Games gold medalist, having won the event in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018 and now 2023. Wise, whose run included a switch right 900 tail, switch left double cork 1080 japan, a right 900 tail and finished with mirror back-to-back dub 12 mutes, he had enough to secure the first place position. 

Now, the U.S. Freeski and Snowboard Teams are in Mammoth Mountain for the 2023 Toyota U.S. Grand Prix. 

RESULTS

U.S. Freeski Team athlete Svea Irving went big in the SuperPipe on Saturday night and ended the evening on the podium for the first time in her professional career. 

Irving came to the X Games as an alternate and left with a bronze medal. This is not only Irving's first X Games medal, it is her first ever podium at the professional level. As an alternate, you are not guaranteed a starting position. For Irving, she found out the night before the contest that she would have the opportunity to drop in, and she took it.

With the heavy snowfall significantly slowing down the pipe for all athletes, she managed to find her speed and amplitude and landed a very technical combo of tricks that eventually led her to be in the top three overall. On her final run through the pipe, matched with screams from the thousands of fans, Irving landed the alleyoop flat five to cork nine combo and walked away with an X Games Bronze. 

"I just won my first bronze medal at any big event ever," said Irving in disbelief. "I am absolutely speechless but very grateful to be on the podium with such great athletes. I am just so stoked to be here!" 

Along with Irving, teammates Hanna Faulhaber and Brita Sigourney also competed. Faulhaber, who won X Games Bronze at last years competition, ended the night in fifth and Sigourney, who has competed in 14 X Games in her career, was seventh. Zoe Atkin of Great Britain won Gold and Rachael Karker of Canada was Silver. 

Now Irving and the rest of the team, both men and women, travel to the west coast for the U.S. Toyota Grand Prix at Mammoth Mountain. 

RESULTS

On Sunday, the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team men’s speed team took on the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Cortina super-G track for the second day. The race was riveting and extremely difficult. There was a total of 21 did not finish racers. An unheard-of number for a speed event. This was due to a lot of trick turns on the terrain packed course.

“It helps to run at the end where you see some of the top guys go with those big trick turns and mistakes they were making,” commented Kyle Negomir on the tricky set.

Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Negomir led the way with a 28th place. Bryce Bennett was close behind in 29th and River Radamus and Ryan Cochran-Siegle were just out of the top 30 in 32nd and 35th. Erik Arvidsson landed in 36th place.

“I think today was a lot of tricks and traps in the course set so you had to be careful,” said Negomir. “I executed the hard sections well and at the bare minimum you needed that today.”

The day’s winner was once again Marco Odermatt of Switzerland. Second place went to Italian skier Dominik Paris, and third place went to Austrian skier Daniel Hemetsberger.

The men’s speed team will now take some rest days as they gear up for World Championships in Courchevel-Meribel France Feb. 6-19th.

RESULTS
Men's super-G

Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team athlete Mikaela Shiffrin finished second in the second slalom in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, just .06 seconds out of first place, and clinched a seventh slalom crystal globe. Paula Moltzan added another top-10 result, finishing in eighth place.

"It is unbelieveable to secure the slalom globe already this season," said Shiffrin. "I have been working hard to get my slalom to a high level again and this season has been very special."

Shiffrin dominated the first run of slalom, but a deteriorating course and flat light hindered many of the racers in the second run. Lena Duerr of Germany took the win, with Zrinka Ljutic of Croatia in third place.

"If I get 86 wins this season it's only special, there is no pressure to do it, its more amazing considering if I am not taking all the risk I will not win the race, I need to be at my highest level," said Shiffrin. 

Moltzan continued to show her dominance this season, with her strong, consistent skiing placing her in the top seven in the overall slalom rankings. It is her fifth top-10 finish in slalom in 2022-23.

Shiffrin, the winningest woman alpine skier of all time with 85 Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup wins, is working toward number 86 to tie Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark as the winningest alpine ski racer ever. Stenmark’s record has held for 34 years. But the fight will wait for another day, with Shiffrin heading into the FIS World Championships, as World Champs results do not count toward the total.

With her result in Spindleruv, Shiffrin clinched her seventh slalom globe, making her the best slalom skier of the 2022-23 season. She last won the slalom globe in 2019. Shiffrin also currently holds the lead for the giant slalom globe (600 points over Lara Gut-Behrami's 482) and the overall lead (1697 points over Petra Vlhova's 966).

Lila Lapanja, Nina O’Brien and Ava Sunshine also raced, but did not qualify for second run. Zoe Zimmermann and Katie Hensien did not finish.

Next the women’s tech team will focus on World Championships Feb. 6-19 in Courchevel-Meribel, France

RESULTS
Women’s slalom

Jaelin Kauf led the Americans for the second night in a row under the lights at Val St. Come with a fourth place finish in the FIS Dual Moguls World Cup. Kauf dueled Britain’s Mikaela Gerken Schofield in a wild ride of a small final where both women pushed each other to their limits. At one point Kauf straddled a mogul but drew on her experience and strength to pull it back and ski in the line to beat Schofield over the finish. In the end, the judges gave it to Schofield who took third place. Japan’s Anri Kawamura won and France’s Perrine Laffont took second. 

“I’m tired,” commented Kauf from the finish area. “It’s bittersweet [to come in fourth], but I am stoked to be back in duals again after such a long time away from competition. I’m bummed to have made such a big mistake in that last run. I thought I was done there for a minute, but basically I just did everything I could to hang on and make it through.”

Elizabeth Lemley, who won her first dual moguls World Cup this season, skied an impressive run against Japan’s Haruka Nakao in the round of eight to advance to the quarterfinal. Lemley met Kauf in the quarterfinal in an American round of friendly fire, but came unstuck in the top section and ended the night in eighth. 

It was another strong showing for the women of the moguls team with seven qualifying for the round of eight: Kauf, Lemley, Alli Macuga, Tess Johnson, Olivia Giaccio, Hannah Soar and Lulu Shaffer. With a field so deep, several rounds of friendly fire knocked a few Americans out from the gate: Johnson lost to Kauf and Soar lost to Shaffer. 

Soar finished 10th, Macuga in 11th and Johnson in 13th.

Shaffer, in her first dual moguls World Cup, skied against Schofield in the quarterfinal, crossing the line first. Schofield took the advance and Shaffer finished in seventh.

Giaccio came up against Laffont in the quarterfinal. Both women went huge with their airs, but Laffont took the round. Giaccio finished in fifth. 

On the men’s side Nick Page and Cole McDonald qualified for the round of eight. Page met Kazakhstan’s Pavel Komolkav for a thrilling match. Both men were neck-in-neck the entire run. Although Page skied clean and fast to cross the line first, the round went to Komolkav and Page ended the night in ninth. 

McDonald was on the hunt for another duals podium. He beat Finland’s Severi Vierela in the round of eight to come up against Mikael Kingsbury in the quarterfinal. To beat the King you have to ski the run of your life, and McDonald took up the challenge with gusto. 

“This was my fourth time dueling Mikael, so I had a lot of experience going against him,” reflected McDonald. “I knew I had to give it my all. My goal in the start gate was to try to beat him across the line. I was just 0.1 seconds behind him; it was quite a close dual.” 

McDonald finished the night in seventh. 

Sweden’s Walter Wallberg won the night, Kingsbury took second and Sweden’s Filip Granefors took third. 

Dylan Walczyk finished 20th, Landon Wendler 27th and Dylan Marcellini 45th.

Moguls competes next on home snow at the Intermountain Health Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort Feb. 2-4, 2023. 

RESULTS
Women’s Dual Moguls
Men’s Dual Moguls

Colby Stevenson was first and Mac Forehand second for the men's ski slopestyle contest on the second day of the X Games. Despite heavy snow that significantly slowed the skiers down throughout the four runs, Stevenson continued to raise the bar after every lap through the course. 

Of the 10 athletes competing, three were from the U.S. Freeski Team: Colby Stevenson, Alex Hall and Mac Forehand. Forehand secured his second X Games medal of his career with a silver in today's contest and was left speechless.

"I just walked away with a silver medal," said Forehand. "I can't really put what I'm feeling into words right now. I'm just so excited. Onto big air tomorrow night, let's go!"

This is the third X Games gold medal and second slopestyle medal of Stevenson's career. Last night, he was third in the men's ski knuckle huck. "This fuels the fire," he said. "Days like this, when I go out and put down my best runs - it makes me want to keep doing it until I can't. This is what dreams are made of baby!"

On a course that was tight, technical and did not provide any room for error, the athletes knew they had to land their tricks and get their rotations around. This type of course played to Stevenson's strengths as he performs best when he can get into his "flow state" and not have much time to think. 

Onto the next. Forehand and Hall will compete in the big air contest tomorrow to wrap up X Games and Stevenson will pack up to head to the next contest at Mammoth Mountain for the Toyota U.S. Grand Prix.