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NBC Sports
16-02-2025
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Meillard caps historic Alpine Champs. for Swiss
Loïc Meillard's third medal in five days, this one gold in the men's slalom, capped a historically dominant World Alpine Skiing Championships for the Swiss, who broke the men's record with nine medals overall.
NBC Sports
16-02-2025
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Loic Meillard wins slalom to cap dominant World Alpine Skiing Championships for Swiss men
Loïc Meillard won slalom gold, his third medal in five days, to lift the Swiss to the record for most medals in men's events in World Alpine Skiing Championships history. Meillard prevailed by 26 hundredths of a second over Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath combining times from two runs in Saalbach, Austria. German Linus Strasser earned bronze. Clément Noël, the Olympic gold medalist from France, led after the first run. He skied out in the closing gates of the second run having trailed Meillard by 16 hundredths at the last intermediate time check. The Swiss men finished worlds with four gold medals in five events and nine medals overall, breaking the record of eight medals for a men's team at worlds shared by the French men in 1966 and the Austrian men in 1962. ALPINE SKIING: Results | World Cup Broadcast Schedule Switerland's 13 total medals and five golds at these worlds in all events marked the best output for one nation since Austria had the same numbers in 1999. Swiss Meillard and Wendy Holdener won the most medals at these worlds — three each. Meillard earned team combined gold Wednesday and giant slalom bronze Friday. Worlds Championships highlights air Sunday at 4 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Nick Zaccardi,
Yahoo
15-02-2025
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Lara Gut-Behrami finishes her last World Alpine Skiing Championships with a record
Lara Gut-Behrami, an Olympic and world champion from Switzerland, has raced at the World Alpine Skiing Championships for the last time. Gut-Behrami, 33, earned team combined silver on Tuesday at her ninth and final World Championships, then placed fifth in Thursday's giant slalom in Saalbach, Austria. Gut-Behrami said before the competition that it would be her final worlds, the Swiss Ski Federation confirmed. She is expected to race next season and go for a fourth Olympics in 2026, but there is no guarantee and she is focused on this season for now, according to the federation. Gut-Behrami has raced on the highest level since age 16. Her first big splash came at age 17 with a pair of world championships silver medals in 2009, making her one of the top challengers to Lindsey Vonn going into the 2010 Olympics. But she missed the Vancouver Games after dislocating her right hip in a September 2009 training crash. She won two World Cup races total over a four-year stretch but re-emerged in the 2013-14 season with seven World Cup victories and her first Olympic medal, downhill bronze. Gut-Behrami followed that by winning the World Cup overall title in 2016. She then suffered a season-ending ACL tear with meniscus damage in her left knee in a warm-up at the 2017 World Championships while in second place in the overall standings behind Mikaela Shiffrin, who went on to win her first overall title that season. Gut-Behrami came back again. Between Jan. 10 and Feb. 27 of 2021, she won six World Cup races, plus world titles in the super-G and giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which will be the women's Alpine venue for the 2026 Winter Olympics. She won her first Olympic gold in the super-G in 2022 by 22 hundredths of a second over Austrian Mirjam Puchner. Last season, she became the oldest woman to win a World Cup overall title, a record that will likely be broken this season by Italian Federica Brignone. This week, she broke the women's record for most World Championships races started. Her 34 starts are two more than Tina Maze had in her career. Gut-Behrami has one World Cup race victory this season. Lindsey Vonn, in uncharted territory on rebuilt knee, racing against time for one last Olympics 'I'm a girl from Minnesota who loves to ski. I realize people might not believe that. Maybe their perception will change after this. I'm not sure. But it really is that simple.' Tim Layden, Tim Layden,
NBC Sports
14-02-2025
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Haaser stops Swiss onslaught with GS win at worlds
With a time of 2:39.71, Austria's Raphael Haaser claimed the surprise win in the men's GS at the World Alpine Skiing Championships, ending Switzerland's bid to sweep the men's golds after they won the first three events.
NBC Sports
14-02-2025
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Lara Gut-Behrami finishes her last World Alpine Skiing Championships with a record
Lara Gut-Behrami, an Olympic and world champion from Switzerland, has raced at the World Alpine Skiing Championships for the last time. Gut-Behrami, 33, earned team combined silver on Tuesday at her ninth and final World Championships, then placed fifth in Thursday's giant slalom in Saalbach, Austria. Gut-Behrami said before the competition that it would be her final worlds, the Swiss Ski Federation confirmed. She is expected to race next season and go for a fourth Olympics in 2026, but there is no guarantee and she is focused on this season for now, according to the federation. Gut-Behrami has raced on the highest level since age 16. Her first big splash came at age 17 with a pair of world championships silver medals in 2009, making her one of the top challengers to Lindsey Vonn going into the 2010 Olympics. But she missed the Vancouver Games after dislocating her right hip in a September 2009 training crash. She won two World Cup races total over a four-year stretch but re-emerged in the 2013-14 season with seven World Cup victories and her first Olympic medal, downhill bronze. Gut-Behrami followed that by winning the World Cup overall title in 2016. She then suffered a season-ending ACL tear with meniscus damage in her left knee in a warm-up at the 2017 World Championships while in second place in the overall standings behind Mikaela Shiffrin, who went on to win her first overall title that season. Gut-Behrami came back again. Between Jan. 10 and Feb. 27 of 2021, she won six World Cup races, plus world titles in the super-G and giant slalom in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, which will be the women's Alpine venue for the 2026 Winter Olympics. She won her first Olympic gold in the super-G in 2022 by 22 hundredths of a second over Austrian Mirjam Puchner. Last season, she became the oldest woman to win a World Cup overall title, a record that will likely be broken this season by Italian Federica Brignone. This week, she broke the women's record for most World Championships races started. Her 34 starts are two more than Tina Maze had in her career. Gut-Behrami has one World Cup race victory this season. Tim Layden,
