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US downhill skier Breezy Johnson banned for 14 months for breaking anti-doping rules
Read full article: US downhill skier Breezy Johnson banned for 14 months for breaking anti-doping rulesDownhill skier Breezy Johnson has been banned for 14 months for three violations of anti-doping rules and can't race until December.
American downhill skier Breezy Johnson says she won't race during anti-doping rules investigation
Read full article: American downhill skier Breezy Johnson says she won't race during anti-doping rules investigationDownhill skier Breezy Johnson is under investigation by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and says she will not race during the case, which could lead to a two-year ban.
EXPLAINER: 'Grip,' 'chatter,' other Olympic ski racing lingo
Read full article: EXPLAINER: 'Grip,' 'chatter,' other Olympic ski racing lingoAs in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca โ those are the words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language.
This weekend on the road to the Olympics: Downhill races, X Games highlight winter sports schedule
Read full article: This weekend on the road to the Olympics: Downhill races, X Games highlight winter sports scheduleEvents to watch, plus TV and live stream schedules for winter sports events taking place the weekend of January 21-23.
Foggy goggles: Johnson loses sight of downhill podium
Read full article: Foggy goggles: Johnson loses sight of downhill podiumUnited States' Breezy Johnson speeds down the course during the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb.13, 2021. Everything was set up then for Breezy Johnson, who was predicted to turn solid, consistent form into a medal in the womenโs downhill at the skiing world championships. Even the one skier who consistently beat Johnson this season, Olympic champion Sofia Goggia, wasn't a factor, because the Italian was out injured. Ninth place, fifth place, first place. โI've got to keep doing my best and I've got to keep doing what I did on the bottom through the whole course,โ Johnson said.
Riding high: Suter wins downhill for her 1st gold at worlds
Read full article: Riding high: Suter wins downhill for her 1st gold at worldsSwitzerland's Corinne Suter holds the gold medal on the podium after the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Goggia had won the last four downhills on the World Cup circuit, after Suter had triumphed in the first race of the downhill season in France in December. Suter believed her second place in the worlds opener helped her believe she could win gold in downhill two days later. She also won gold in both speed events at the junior worlds seven years ago. Gut-Behrami seemed on course for her second gold medal in two days when she led Suter by more than three-tenths for most of her run.
Goggia wins 4th straight World Cup downhill to match Vonn
Read full article: Goggia wins 4th straight World Cup downhill to match VonnItaly's Sofia Goggia celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Tacca)CRANS-MONTANA โ CRANS-Olympic champion Sofia Goggia is dominating the World Cup downhill season like no woman since ski great Lindsey Vonn. Goggia won her fourth straight downhill on Saturday to tie a World Cup streak by Vonn in 2018. Vonn's best streak in World Cup downhill was six straight wins in 2009-10, according to the ski-db.com database. Vonn won four straight World Cup downhills from January to March 2018.
US skiers step out of Shiffrinโs shadow with strong results
Read full article: US skiers step out of Shiffrinโs shadow with strong resultsUnited States' Breezy Johnson holds the trophy after finishing third in a alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill, in Val d'Isere, France, Saturday, Dec.19, 2020. Shiffrin was responsible for all 34 American podium results on the womenโs circuit in the past two seasons, but three months into the current campaign, two team members have scooped top-three results as well. The season has also brought a string of career-best results for Nina OโBrien, Keely Cashman and AJ Hurt. โI am really excited about and proud of our team,โ Shiffrin said after placing third in the year-end night slalom in Semmering, Austria, on Tuesday. That same season Shiffrin won her second overall title while Alice McKennis Duran and Jacqueline Wiles also scored podium results.