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Alex Hall leads first four skiers to make U.S. Olympic team for 2026 Milan Cortina Games
Reigning Olympic slopestyle gold medalist Alex Hall is among the first four skiers to make the U.S. team for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. Hall is joined by Olympic silver medalists Alex Ferreira (halfpipe) and Jaelin Kauf (moguls), plus aerials skier Quinn Dehlinger in securing early qualification. Each made the team as the highest-ranked American who is also ranked in the top three in the world on International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) lists. Hall, 26, shares No. 1 on the FIS men's slopestyle list with Norwegian Birk Ruud, the 2022 Olympic big air gold medalist and two-time reigning world champion in slopestyle. Hall has won five World Cups between big air and slopestyle since his Olympic title in 2022. Ferreira, 30, shares No. 1 on the FIS men's halfpipe list with Finley Melville Ives, and 18-year-old from New Zealand who won the world title in March. Ferreira won Olympic halfpipe silver in 2018 and bronze in 2022. This past season, he took second at X Games and third at the world championships, each time placing one spot behind countryman Nick Goepper. In the 2023-24 season, Ferreira won all seven of his competitions and became the first U.S. male freestyle skier to have an undefeated World Cup campaign in an event that's on the Olympic program. Goepper, a three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist, is ranked third on the FIS list and this upcoming season can clinch his Olympic spot in his new event of halfpipe. Kauf, the 2022 Olympic moguls silver medalist, is coming off winning the World Cup season titles in moguls and dual moguls, plus winning the world championships title in dual moguls. She shares No. 1 on the FIS women's moguls list with 2018 Olympic gold medalist Perrine Laffont of France. While moguls has been on the Olympic medal program since 1992, dual moguls makes its Olympic debut in 2026, giving Kauf two medal chances. Dehlinger, 22, is tied for fourth on the FIS men's aerials list. For U.S. Olympic qualifying purposes, Dehlinger moves up one spot as Russian Maxim Burov retained his higher ranking while not being eligible to compete. FIS has excluded all Russian skiers from competition since shortly after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Dehlinger is set to make his Olympic debut in 2026. At the last two world championships, he took gold in the mixed-gender team event and silver in the individual event behind Swiss Noe Roth. Dehlinger hails from the same small ski area as Goepper — Perfect North Slopes in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Another aerials skier, 2022 Olympian Winter Vinecki, is ranked third on the FIS list but did not secure early qualification because she retained that ranking due to injury, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard. She can still make the team — which is expected to include four total female aerialists — closer to the Games. The four skiers join four other athletes across all sports who have made the U.S. Olympic team already — snowboarders Chloe Kim and Red Gerard and the mixed doubles curling team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin. The Olympic team will ultimately include around 200 athletes. Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
03-04-2025
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MPD talks safety amid series of deadly vehicle/pedestrian crashes
MIDLAND Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Over the past month there have been several pedestrian incidents in Midland and some have turned deadly. Now, the Midland Police Department is hoping to help drivers and pedestrians stay safer on the roads. 'We have had several in the recent days, lot of it has to do with pedestrians not paying attention to the road,' Lieutenant of traffic division for MPD Pete Dehlinger said. 'Not obeying the rules of the road and just thinking they have the right away when they really don't.' Dehlinger said people walking along the road will always be vulnerable because they don't have any protection compared to a car, which has safety features such as seatbelts, airbags, and bumpers. 'When it comes to a pedestrian and a car, a car will always win every time,' Dehlinger said. 'So, pedestrians need to be aware of their surroundings, be defensive, and assume that the other vehicles don't see them.' Some tips for both drivers and pedestrian from TxDOT's Pedestrian Safety Campaign to keep everyone safe and limit the incidents are: For Pedestrians: Cross the street only at intersections or crosswalks. Look left, right, then left again before crossing. Make eye contact with drivers before crossing. Don't assume traffic will stop for you. Follow all traffic and crosswalk signals. Stick to sidewalks. If there isn't one, walk on the left side of the road facing oncoming traffic, unless it's obstructed or unsafe. When walking, put away electronic devices that take your eyes and ears off the road. Stay visible. Wear reflective materials and use a flashlight at night. For Drivers: Stop and yield for pedestrians in crosswalks. When turning, yield the right of way to pedestrians. Be cautious when passing stopped buses or other vehicles that can block your view of pedestrians. Pay attention and put your phone away, so you're prepared if pedestrians enter your path. Follow the posted speed limit and adjust to conditions. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
NBC Sports
30-03-2025
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Kaila Kuhn wins aerials as U.S. earns four more medals to end freestyle skiing worlds
Kaila Kuhn became the youngest American to win an individual world title in aerials as the U.S. earned four total medals between aerials and halfpipe to close the freestyle skiing world championships. Kuhn, a 21-year-old from Michigan, landed a lay-full-full, or a double twisting triple backflip, for 105.13 points in the six-woman super final in Switzerland on Sunday. It's the first senior top-level win for Kuhn, who previously finished third in a pair of World Cups. 'This is the biggest surprise, and I could not be happier,' she said. 'It's been kind of a rough season for me transitioning to triples (jumps).' Kuhn prevailed over 2022 Olympic gold medalist Xu Mengtao of China (99.16 points) and two-time World Cup season champion Danielle Scott of Australia (96.93). Kuhn landed that triple jump in competition for the first time in the mixed team event at worlds on Thursday, which the U.S. also won. 'I trained that trick all summer, and I decided to put it down when it counted,' she said. Kuhn was the world junior silver medalist in 2022, one month after placing eighth in individual aerials in her Olympic debut at age 18. She converted to aerials from gymnastics. In Sunday's men's final, Swiss Noe Roth and American Quinn Dehlinger went one-two for a second consecutive worlds. Roth won with a double full-double full-full for 143.31 points. Dehlinger scored 123.53 with one less twist — a double full-full-full Two years ago, Dehlinger became at age 20 the youngest American man to ever win an individual Olympic or world championships aerials medal. The slopestyle convert is the latest freestyle skiing star to come out of the Cincinnati area, and specifically Perfect North Slopes in nearby Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Perfect North also produced Nick Goepper, a three-time Olympic slopestyle medalist who won ski halfpipe silver at worlds on Sunday. And Justin Schoenefeld, the top American male aerialist at the 2022 Olympics (fifth place) who was also part of the gold-medal-winning team at those Games. As of 2022, Perfect North consisted of five magic carpets, two rope tows, five chairlifts and 23 trails, one of which was expert. The highest point of the hill is 400 feet tall. In contrast, the 2002 Olympic venue of Deer Valley, Utah, has 103 runs and is 3,000 feet tall. Earlier Sunday, Americans Goepper and Alex Ferreira finished second and third in the ski halfpipe won by Finley Melville Ives, an 18-year-old from New Zealand. Melville Ives landed a pair of double cork 1620s in his 96-point first run, according to broadcast commentary. It held up through the two-run final. He became the youngest man to win a world title in ski halfpipe, breaking the age record held by his countryman, 2022 Olympic gold medalist Nico Porteous. Porteous last competed in September and has been doing ski filming this winter. Melville Ives' twin brother, Campbell, finished fifth in snowboard halfpipe at worlds on Saturday. Goepper, a three-time Olympic medalist in ski slopestyle, briefly retired and then came back in 2023 in halfpipe. He won the X Games in January. Ferreira, an Olympic silver and bronze medalist in halfpipe, won all seven of his competitions in the 2023-24 season. Goepper and Ferreira are leading candidates to make the 2026 U.S. Olympic team of up to four men. They could be joined by 2014 and 2018 gold medalist David Wise, who finished 11th on Sunday and is bidding for one final Games. In women's ski halfpipe, Brit Zoe Atkin landed three 720s in a 93.50-point run for her first world title after finishing second and third at the previous two worlds. Svea Irving was the top American in fifth. The event lacked Olympic champion Eileen Gu of China, who hasn't competed since crashing at the X Games in January. Gu posted then that she was OK but was unable to walk at the time after 'some really aggressive bruising.' Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
08-02-2025
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Jaelin Kauf, Quinn Dehlinger win at Deer Valley freestyle ski World Cup
Olympic silver medalist Jaelin Kauf earned her first World Cup moguls victory in more than six years while extending her podium streak to seven events in a row between moguls and dual moguls. Kauf, a 28-year-old Wyoming native, took the Intermountain Health Freestyle International presented by Stifel at Deer Valley, Utah, on Thursday night. She scored 80.75 points in the super final, edging 2018 Olympic gold medalist Perrine Laffont of France (79.63). She did so in front of family and friends who carried large letter J signs and on the third anniversary of her Olympic medal-winning performance in China. Kauf ranks second in this season's World Cup moguls standings behind Laffont (in the notable absence of injured 2022 Olympic champion Jakara Anthony of Australia). Kauf is ranked No. 1 in dual moguls, which makes its Olympic debut in 2026. On Friday, American Quinn Dehlinger won the aerials event at Deer Valley after missing most of last season due to a knee injury that led to surgery. Dehlinger, a 22-year-old from the Cincinnati area, landed 'the Daddy' — a back full-double full-full — for 122.57 points, topping Dmytro Kotovskyi of Ukraine (115.49) and American Chris Lillis (104.43), who both performed the same trick. 'It's always been a dream to win here at Deer Valley,' Dehlinger said, according to U.S. Ski and Snowboard. 'Winning on home soil is just something different. This is the Super Bowl of aerials. The crowd is always the biggest, the environment is always the best, so to win here is something special.' Before last year's injury, Dehlinger won silver at the 2023 World Championships as the youngest American man to ever make an individual Olympic or world championships aerials podium. He's the only American man to win an aerials World Cup in the last four years. In 2022, he was the highest-ranked American man to not make the Olympic aerials team. Competition in Deer Valley concludes with dual moguls on Saturday. Deer Valley highlights air Sunday at 2 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics: New sport, events on Winter Games program In 2026, the Winter Olympics welcome a new medal sport for the first time since 1964. Nick Zaccardi, Nick Zaccardi,
