Rosie Brennan once again proved she is one of the best all-around cross country athletes in the world, leading the Davis U.S. Cross Country Team with a seventh-place finish in the 30k classic at the Holmenkollen Skifestival in Oslo, Norway, Saturday.

Norway’s Therese Johaug, who won the race 11 years ago and announced her retirement Friday, won the FIS World Cup Cross Country race with a time of 1:19.22. Finland’s Krista Parmakoski was second, 19 seconds back. Sweden’s Jonna Sundling was this at 32 seconds off Johaug’s time. Brennan was 1:12 back. In her first career 30k classic, Julia Kern was 23rd; Hailey Swirbul was 26th, and Caitlin Patterson was 30th.

For Brennan, who finished in the top six in all six events at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Saturday’s race was significantly different from the 30k freestyle at the 2022 Games, with thousands of fans cheering fans lining the course.

“This race was nothing like Zhangjiakou,” Brennan said of the cold, wind-swept race on the final day of the Games. “It is tough to even compare the two. 30ks are always an adventure, and I am thrilled to have put together two strong ones in each technique.

“I had a great ride with Ebba (Andersson) and had an enjoyable time skiing out there today,” Brennan added, noting that the events of the week led to quite a bit of pre-race anxiety. “It's also been a stressful week for a variety of reasons…I am really proud of giving myself another chance to put together a good race here and to have managed the stress and anxiety well enough to do so.”

Jessie Diggins, who won the silver medal in the 30k freestyle at the 2022 Games and is currently second in the overall FIS Cross Country World Cup standings, was among the thousands of cheering spectators Saturday. 

​​”My heart wanted to race Holmenkollen, but taking care of my body comes first…and my body is still tired from the last 30km!” Diggins posted on Instagram.

 

 

 

 

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Up next, the men compete in the 50k classic Sunday at the Holmenkollen Skifestival. Staring for the U.S. are Scott Patterson, Adam Martin, Zak Ketterson, Hunter Wonders, and John Steel Hagenbuch.

Unfortunately, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the FIS Cross Country World Cup Finals scheduled for March 18-20 in Tyumen, Russia, have been canceled. Next weekend’s FIS Cross Country World Cup in Falun, Sweden, will be the season's final event and will include the first-ever mixed team sprint and mixed team relays.

“I am really bummed Finals was canceled,” Brennan said, “but it will be fun to end the season with the mixed relay event as that is a new one for us!”

RESULTS
Women’s 30k classic

Ryan Cochran-Siegle led the Americans in the first of two Kvitfjell, Norway FIS Ski World Cup downhills on Friday, landing in 11th. Travis Ganong was just four hundredths behind Cochran-Siegle in 12th, Steven Nyman was 18th, and Jared Goldberg was 20th.  

The Olympiabakken track was perfectly prepared and held up for the entire field, giving several guys in the back of the pack a unique opportunity to move up. In what was a thrilling race to watch, five athletes out of the top 30 landed in the top 20—most notably including Canada’s Cameron Alexander coming from bib 39 to tie Swiss Niels Hintermann for first with a time of 1:44.42. Austria’s Matthias Mayer was off the pace by .12 seconds. A mere 1.10 seconds separated first place from 20th. 

Cochran-Siegle, who is fresh off a super-G silver medal at Beijing 2022, had a solid run to lead the Americans into the points. When asked about the surprise results in the race, Cochran-Siegle said, “That’s Kvitfjell for you," commenting how it goes to show the benefit of having solid Europa Cups results at the venue beforehand. Indeed, Alexander, who had not even scored a World Cup point during the entire 2021-22 season, grabbed three top-five finishes in the Europa Cups in Kvitfjell in February, highlighted by a downhill victory. 

Sam Morse, Erik Arvidsson, and Bryce Bennett also started for the Americans, ending in 32nd, 50th, and 54th, respectively.

The race to the downhill globe remains tight, with Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde leading by a mere three points, with 490 to Swiss Feuz’s 487. Austria’s Matthias Mayer remains third in the standings, with 462 points. Swiss Marco Odermatt remains the clear leader in the overall standings, with 1,216 points, Kilde with 870 points, and Mayer with 752. 

Up next for the men is another downhill Saturday with another chance on the Olympiabakken track for the Americans to snag a podium. 

RESULTS
Men’s downhill

STANDINGS
Downhill
Overall

HOW TO WATCH 
All times EST

Saturday, March 5, 2022
4:00 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Women’s Super-G - LIVE, Lenzerheide, SUI, Broadcast Olympic Channel, Streaming Peacock
5:30 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Men’s Downhill - LIVE, Kvitfjell, NOR, Streaming Peacock, Streaming Ski and Snowboard Live

Sunday, March 6, 2022
4:00 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Women’s Giant Slalom, run 1 - LIVE, Lenzerheide, SUI, Streaming Peacock
5:00 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Men’s Super-G - LIVE, Kvitfjell, NOR, Streaming Peacock, Streaming Ski and Snowboard Live
7:30 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Women’s Giant Slalom, run 2 - LIVE, Lenzerheide, SUI, Broadcast Olympic Channel, Streaming Peacock

Current television broadcast and streaming schedules for all sports are available here. 

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

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Lauren Macuga skied to third place on Thursday to kick off the 2022 Alpine Junior World Ski Championships In Panorama, B.C. 

Macuga, a Development Team member and resident of Park City, Utah, skied to 1:28.58 in the downhill, the first event in the FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships. She finished .25 seconds behind winner Magdalena Egger of Austria, who posted the winning time of 1:28.33. German Emma Aicher was the last athlete to kick out of the start gate and ended the race sliding into the second position, with a time of 1:28.46.

Alpine Development Director Chip Knight explained how Macuga had been progressing throughout her speed career and was ready for a bigger stage for her talents to shine through. “She has been working hard on her technical skiing, while also gaining experience in the speed events on a higher level World Cup and Europa Cup tracks. Those efforts paid dividends here in Panorama,” said Knight. 

Macuga was ecstatic about her bronze finish and could not believe that it happened today despite the conditions in the past few days. 

“To open at Junior Worlds at Panorama Resort with a third is incredible. I knew I could put one down, but to see it in the results with all the best juniors in the world is the craziest feeling ever,” reflected Macuga. 

Macuga added that she wants to keep her skiing at this level and keep progressing for the future. “I plan to keep the ball rolling into the next few days of racing! And I am ready to ski my best against these women and can’t wait to see my teammates up there with me,” Macuga said. 

 

 

 

 

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Ava Sunshine Jemison of Edwards, Colo., finished 20th, having waited out two long race interruptions—one due to heavy fog. Twenty-six women started in the field, and there were two DNFs.

The women's downhill was the first race in the nine-day competition featuring 11 events, open to the world’s best junior alpine skiers, born in the years 2000 to 2003. 

Macuga’s family is no stranger to the mountains and ski competition. She has two siblings also on the U.S. Ski Team; sister Sam Macuga is a ski jumper and her sister Alli Macuga is a moguls skier. 

The men’s downhill was canceled due to the fog. The men will strap on the downhill skis again on Friday for the rescheduled race while the women will tackle super-G. The men's super-G has yet to be rescheduled. More information will be forthcoming. 

RESULTS
Women's downhill

PANORAMA 2022 COMPETITION SCHEDULE
March 4 – Men’s Downhill and Women’s Super-G
March 5 – Mixed Team Event
March 6 – Men’s Alpine Combined
March 7 – Women’s Alpine Combined
March 8 – Men’s Giant Slalom and Women’s Slalom
March 9 – Women’s Giant Slalom and Men’s Slalom

MORE INFORMATION
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Bristol Mountain and U.S. Ski & Snowboard are excited to announce that the 2022 Toyota U.S. Aerial Freestyle Championships have been rescheduled to Sunday, March 13, 2022. Four Olympic Medalists plan to compete including the Olympic Mixed Team Aerials Gold Medalists Chris Lillis (former Bristol Mountain Freestyle Team Member), Ashley Caldwell, and Justin Schoenefeld and Olympic Bronze Medalist Megan Nick. The event was rescheduled to accommodate athletes' schedules.  

"We are so excited to be able to welcome Bristol Mountain’s own Chris Lillis back to celebrate his incredible performance in Beijing and his Olympic Gold Medal!” exclaimed Bristol Mountain Vice President Steven Fuller. “We can’t wait to welcome the world’s top talent to Bristol Mountain to compete for the National Championship.”

The event will bring some of the world’s top aerial skiers to compete for the U.S. National Championship. Spanning four days, including training, the championships will culminate with finals on Sunday, March 13, 2022, providing spectators ample opportunity to cheer as athletes soar to heights of more than 50 feet above the Bristol Valley. In freestyle aerials, athletes compete a series of acrobatic maneuvers in the air after skiing off jumps that range in height from seven-feet, six-inches, to thirteen-feet, six-inches. Athletes are judged based on their amplitude (height and distance in the air), form (style and execution), and landing.

Bristol Mountain was host to the 2020 U.S. Aerial Freestyle Championships on March 14, 2020, where Eric Loughran and Ashley Caldwell were named U.S. National Champions. A full replay of the 2020 event can be viewed on Bristol Mountain’s YouTube Channel (youtube.com/BristolMountain).

Guests who wish to attend the 2022 Toyota U.S. Aerial Freestyle Championships must purchase a Freestyle Event Parking Pass. Parking Passes are limited and are expected to sell out. For more information visit: https://www.bristolmountain.com/freestyle-aerials-national-championship/

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Members of the press interested in covering the event will need credentials in order to gain access to the site. Please contact Meg Fuller in order to obtain credentials to the event, mfuller@bristolmt.com or (585) 455-4186.

It was another beautiful day at Crans-Montana, Switzerland for the second of two FIS Ski World Cup downhills for the women, and Bella Wright led the way for the Americans with a career-best 10th place. 

After snagging a career-best fourth place in Saturday’s downhill, Switzerland’s Priska Nufer wowed the hometown crowd on Sunday, earning her first World Cup podium and first World Cup victory in one fell swoop. Czech Republic Ester Ledecka carried the confidence she gained with Saturday’s victory, skiing boldly and solidly into second place, just 11 hundredths off of Nufer, followed by Italy’s Sofia Goggia in third.  

After finishing 30th in Saturday’s downhill, Wright put the hammer down and rocketed from bib 37 to land in 10th, after posting solid split times all the way down. She ended up .55 seconds off the pace set by Nufer. Wright said she didn’t do anything special…she just went out, skied a lot more like herself, and “felt really calm.” And it certainly showed. “My run didn’t feel lightning fast,” she reflected. “I think that’s because I was so in control and over my skis which resulted in a solid run.”

After struggling early in the season and then sustaining a talus bone fracture in her right ankle, Wright felt relieved to find the speed she knows she’s capable of on the world stage, despite the fact that she often feels pain in her ankle. “I’m just so so happy that it worked out today,” she continued. “I’ve really been struggling with how many things have hit me the past six months. I’ve skied with pain every day since I got back on skis. It’s been a bunch of little nagging things, and my ankle has good days and bad days. So I’m really just happy that I pushed through all the pain but especially proud that I pushed through the mental barrier today of not feeling confident due to lack of time on snow.”

Wright has a message for those who feel like time is against them. She says, “...Just know that you have it within you to show up when you desire it most. Yesterday was a tough day, today was the best feeling I’ve ever had crossing the finish. Things can change in an instant and I’m so grateful to finally showcase what I’m capable of. To be so close to the podium makes me so giddy. Hungry for more. And I’m so grateful to my team and teammates for pushing me each day to just try to ski like I know how to ski. Today was a great day, and I’m so grateful for today after all the days of doubt that I’ve felt.”

She will carry the good energy onward, saying, “I have great memories from last year in Crans…and this year even better memories. I love the track here and I’m excited to come back next year!”

Jackie Wiles finished just outside of the points, in 32nd, with teammate Alix Wilkinson in 39th. Keely Cashman did not finish and had a pretty big crash, but is thankfully OK, as she skied down and had a smile on her face in the finish area.

After her podium finish on Sunday, Goggia remains the leader in the downhill standings with 482 points to Switzerland’s Corrine Suter with 407 points. Slovakian Petra Vlhova finished a respectable 16th in Sunday’s downhill, earning 15 points. She will walk away from the weekend tied with Mikaela Shiffrin in the overall standings, with 1,026 points. Goggia is sitting in third with 851 points. 

The women will now travel to Lenzerheide, Switzerland for a super-G and giant slalom series on March 5-6, where Shiffrin will return to World Cup action. 

RESULTS
Women’s downhill

STANDINGS
Downhill
Overall

HOW TO WATCH:
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Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

Rosie Brennan led four Davis U.S. Cross Country Ski Team athletes into the points, finishing eighth at the FIS Cross Country World Cup 10k classic in Lahti, Finland, Sunday.

Norway’s Therese Johaug took the victory with a time of 24 minutes, 28 seconds. Russia’s Natalia Nepryaeva was second, followed by Finland Krista Parmakowski in third. Brennan was 1:02 off the winning time. Jessie Diggins was 20th, followed by Julia Kern in 28th and Hailey Swirbul in 29th.

For Brennan, popping a top 10 result following the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, where she competed in all six cross country events, followed by another long couple of travel days from China to Finland, was a significant accomplishment.

“I am really happy with today,” Brennan said. “I have always struggled post championships, not so much in my body but in my mind. It's really difficult to live on the road and be sharp and push so hard all the time. It often feels like there is never a chance to let down the way someone who goes home every week might experience. I am always trying to figure this out and work towards finding ways to let down and then pull the fight back up for the weekend. It's all part of the game, and it's a good challenge to try to figure everything out.” 

Sunday’s result was even more satisfying for Brennan after she just missed the opportunity to advance to the semifinals in Saturday’s freestyle sprint by four hundredths of a second.

“I was definitely frustrated after yesterday and am really happy I was able to let it go and find myself out there today,” she said. “We have great weather this weekend and a big crowd, so that was a huge bonus. It was a joy to not be skiing in an arctic tornado!”

In the men's 15k classic, Scott Patterson just missed the points, finishing 33rd.

Up next, the FIS Cross Country World Cup Tour heads to Drammen, Norway, for a freestyle sprint on Thursday, March 3.

RESULTS
Women’s 10k classic
Men’s 15k classic

The FIS Ski World Cup men’s slalom tour continued on Sunday with blue skies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, for the second of two slalom races in the weekend’s series. Ben Ritchie led the way for the Americans, earning a career-best 20th place despite the challenging conditions. 

Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen took his second-consecutive World Cup slalom victory, excelling on a tricky second run set he deemed “for the men, not the boys.” David “Rocket” Ryding skyrocketed from a 19th place first run to end up second place on a course set by his coach. Germany’s Linus Strasser rounded out the podium in third. 

With this victory, Kristoffersen took the lead in the slalom standings with 356 points from teammate Lucas Braathen (307 points). Adding to Kristoffersen’s victory, he became the first man in slalom to win multiple World Cup slalom races this season. Braathen also had an impressive showing in the second run, with another significant jump, from 24th place first run to clock the second-fastest second run and land just off the podium in fourth. 

Ritchie set himself up well in the first run, finishing 18th, putting him in a good place to make the top 30 flip and collect some more World Cup points. He skied a solid and smart second run and grabbed a career-best 20th place finish.

With the depth in this men’s slalom field, anything could have happened. Nine athletes did not finish the second run, including Swiss Loic Meillard who was leading after the first run, making it an advantage to Kristoffersen to snag the win from his opponents. 

Fellow Americans Luke Winters, Jett Seymour, and Alex Leever also started but did not qualify for a second run. 

Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt continues to lead in the overall standings, with 1,200 points to Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde’s 825 points. With his performance this weekend, Kristoffersen moved up to fourth in the overall standings, with 659 points. 

The men will travel to Kvitfjell, Norway for a pair of downhill races—including the rescheduled downhill from the Xfinity Birds of Prey World Cup at Beaver Creek, Colo.—and a super-G. 

RESULTS
Men’s slalom

STANDINGS
World Cup Slalom
World Cup Overall

HOW TO WATCH:
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Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

Just six days after her historic silver-medal performance in the 30k freestyle at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Jessie Diggins was back on snow, finishing fourth in the FIS World Cup Cross Country Freestyle Sprint - leading four of her teammates into the top 28 in Lahti, Finland, Saturday.

Olympic gold medalist Jonna Sundling led a Swedish sweep of the podium with Emma Ribom in second and Maja Dahlqvist in third. Diggins's fourth-place result closed the gap on Russia’s overall World Cup leader Natalia Nepryaeva, who finished sixth. Diggins moved up to second in the overall World Cup standings, 209 points behind Nepryaeva.

Julia Kern was eighth, Rosie Brennan 13th, and Hailey Swirbul 28th. Both Diggins and Kern advanced to the semifinals, finishing 1-2 in the quarterfinal heat five. In the second semifinal, Diggins was second and Kern just missed advancing to the finals, finishing fourth.

“Today was a lot of fun,” Kern said. “The conditions were great, the stadium and course were filled with lively spectators and I was really excited to get back to racing the World Cup! I felt like I had a lot of great energy today, skied well, and enjoyed the awesome atmosphere while racing side-by-side with Jessie in the heats! I was stoked to put down maybe my best World Cup qualifier and see that my body is ready to fire after the Olympics.”

Up next, the women will compete in a 10k Classic, the men in a 15k Classic Sunday in Lahti.

RESULTS
Women’s Freestyle Sprint
Men’s Freestyle Sprint

It was a beautiful, sunny day in Crans-Montana, Switzerland for the first of two FIS Ski World Cup women’s downhills, with Keely Cashman leading two Americans into the top 30. 

Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecka found her way back to the top of the podium, with Norway’s Ragnhild Mowinckel in second place, and Austria’s Cornelia Huetter continuing her string of strong results in third to round out the podium. Cashman, who was fresh off a 17th place result in the downhill at Beijing 2022 to lead the Americans, was skiing solid and ended up in 28th to grab more World Cup points. Teammate Bella Wright followed in 30th. 

Both Cashman and Wright are coming back from injuries and gaining some important confidence on the World Cup stage once again. Cashman, who sustained a concussion, minor MCL strain, hematoma in both hips, and a temporary loss of feeling in her foot from bruising from a training crash in January 2021 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, has been building confidence all season since returning to competition in October's World Cup opener. Wright crashed in the second of two World Cup super-G races at St. Moritz, Switzerland in December, sustaining a broken talus bone in her right ankle. She returned for the Olympics, but this was her first World Cup back since injury. 

Italy’s Sofia Goggia, who had an impressive comeback at the Olympics from an injury sustained in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy to grab silver in the downhill at the Olympics, struggled to approach the race in her normal hard-charging manner. She ended up 12th on the day but remains the leader in the downhill standings with 422 points to Switzerland’s Corrine Suter with 357 points. 

Two-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion Mikaela Shiffrin, who opted to sit the Crans-Montana downhills out in order to rest, recharge, and prepare for the upcoming World Cups, retained her overall lead by a mere 15 points (1,026 points) over rival Petra Vlhova (1,011)  from Slovakia. Vlhova decided to leave the Olympics following the slalom to get some training in, entering the Crans-Montana speed races in hopes of skiing fast for valuable points but ended up taking home just two points in Saturday’s downhill, finishing 29th. 

Alix Wilkinson and Jackie Wiles also started for the Americans, narrowly missing the top 30 and landing in 31st and 33rd, respectively. The women will tackle another downhill on Sunday, which is the final downhill prior to the World Cup Finals in Courchevel/Meribel, France.

RESULTS
Women’s downhill

STANDINGS
Downhill
Overall

HOW TO WATCH:

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*All times EST.

Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022
3:10 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Men's Slalom, run 1 - LIVE, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER, Streaming Ski and Snowboard Live, Streaming Peacock
4:00 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Women’s Downhill - LIVE, Crans-Montana, SUI, Broadcast Olympic Channel, Streaming Peacock
6:30 a.m. FIS Alpine World Cup Men's Slalom, run 2 - LIVE, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GER, Streaming Ski and Snowboard Live, Streaming Peacock

Sport-specific broadcast and streaming schedules are available below:

• Alpine
• Cross Country
• Freeski
• Freestyle
• Ski Jumping
• Nordic Combined
• Snowboard

Broadcast and streaming schedules are updated on a daily basis throughout the season.

The strength of the U.S. Cross Country development program continues to shine as the next generation has already made their mark on the world stage. On Wednesday, the junior men’s relay team won the bronze medal at the 2022 Junior/U23 World Championships in Lygna, Norway.

The team of Michael Earnhart, Brian Bushey, Walker Hall, and Will Koch finished just 22.4 seconds off the winning time of Russia in the 4x5k relay. Norway just edged USA at the line to take the silver at 21.8 seconds back. This was the fourth time in the past five World Championships that the USA men’s relay team has won a medal. 

In the women’s 4x3.3k team relay, the U.S. team of Kate Oldham, Samatha Smith, Nina Schamberger, and Sydney Palmer-Leger finished fifth, 1:32 off the winning time of Norway.

In Tuesday’s 15k Mass Start Freestyle, Palmer Leger was the top U.S. finisher in sixth. In the men’s 30k Mass Start Freestyle, Earnhart was the top U.S. finisher in 10th. 

The 2022 Junior/U23 World Championships continue Thursday with the U23 10k classic for women and the 15k classic for men. 

RESULTS
Men's 4x5k Team Relay
Women’s 3.3k Team Relay
Men’s 30k Mass Start Freestyle
Women’s 15k Mass Start Freestyle