Freestyle and moguls athletes from around the world will convene at Winter Park Resort to kick off the competition season with the annual U.S. Freestyle Selection Events. 130 athletes will compete from Monday, Jan. 9, to.
Billed as a world-class gravel race on some of earth’s greatest gravel roads, SBT GRVL takes pride in giving back too. The annual bike race on gravel roads will return to Steamboat Springs on Aug..
On March 4, 1982 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire exactly four decades before it failed to medal at the Beijing Olympics the U.S. women’s Alpine ski team clinched the 1982 Nation’s Cup, a…
Patience! Cost control starts with a culture shift off the fast track
The cost of ski racing. Mention this topic in conversation with past ski racers and you get a lot of sighs … a throw-up-your-hands reaction, and an assertion that none of us could have pursued the sport with any real vigor at today’s expense. And then because we did pursue it, and because none of us can help ourselves from wanting others to be able to comes thoughtful analysis, suggestions, and potential solutions.
In the face of the arms race so many youth sports face, one suggested remedy for ski racing is regulations: limiting the use of suits, the number of skis and race starts at various stages; limiting equipment design, à la NASCAR, and training seasons, à la the NFL.
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The Whittell High School graduate will be attending Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
On a day where the NFL was drafting its 2021 class, CMC head coach Scott Tanner was busy putting together his roster for the next powerhouse ski team in the Rocky Mountains.
Tanner has coached ski racers in Colorado for the past 25 years initially for Team Breckenridge in Summit County and then for the Steamboat Spring Winter Sports Club. He’s been head coach at CMC since 2018.
While working as head FIS coach at both programs, Tanner coached many future college racers and NCAA All-Americans.