The FIS Alpine World Cup, as we know it today, was launched in 1966 and backed by the FIS during the Championships the same year in Portillo, Chile. The inaugural World Cup race was held in ...

Prior to its inclusion in FIS, alpine ski pioneers Arnold Lunn and Hannes Schneider organized one of the first downhill and slalom races in 1928, dubbed the Arlberg-Kandahar. The competition hosted 45 ...

The Vail Valley has built an international ski racing legacy over 60 years, with the VVF serving as its steward since 1981. The Empowering Possibility Capital Campaign will secure and expand this ...

Lindsey Vonn at the Audi Fis Alpine World Ski Championships - Previews - Source: Getty. Legendary competitive alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn recently shared glimpses of her challenging training week.

At the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim, two Norwegian athletes were disqualified for tampering with their suits. An investigation revealed hidden alterations, leading to ...

Last winter’s Nordic World Ski Championships in Trondheim ended not only in disgrace over cheating by ski jumping officials, but now in economic crisis as well. Organizers of the huge event have ...

A huge mass of a Swiss glacier collapsed on Wednesday, leaving nearly all of an Alpine village destroyed. As rocks and chunks of ice crashed into the valley, plumes of dust went skyward.

Apparently, it's Fastest Known Time (FKT) season in the French Alps. Just days after Élise Poncet set the women's ski FKT on Mont Blanc, Benjamin Vedrines has set a new men's ski FKT on the peak.

Together, they recorded several World Cup victories last season and took a historic silver medal at the 2025 World Championships. "This achievement is the highest in Latvian luge doubles history ...

The Asian Athletics Championships are held every two years. In 2023, Pereira had claimed a historic sprint double in Bangkok, Thailand, with gold medals in the 100m and 200m .

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with mud or destroyed about 90% of a village that was evacuated earlier this ...