Doctors explain how it's possible for U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn to compete for gold at the Milan-Cortina Olympics despite ...

Biathlon combines two sports – cross-country skiing and shooting – into one race. The biathlon first made its debut 66 years ago in the 1960 Winter Olympics at the renamed Palisades Tahoe in Olympic ...

U.S. Olympic skiers and scientists explain the sharp differences between natural snow and machine-made snow, from the science ...

A perfect recipe of circumstances makes downhill skiing doable — though still quite remarkable — for Vonn, even with a torn ACL.

It’s been a difficult Winter Olympics thus far for Alpine skiing great Mikaela Shiffrin. The 26-year-old American has twice done something she hardly ever does in international competition: “ski out” ...

In skiers' parlance, uphill skiing is another term for ski touring. Oftentimes, the phrase is used by ski areas to denote ski touring that happens within the avalanche-controlled boundaries of a ski ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics are just around the corner. In a few days athletes from around the world will descend upon the Milano Cortana region of Italy to take on the slopes, hills, skating runs, and ...

Despite skiing's complicated phrases, slang, and descriptors when it comes to snow and gear, the sport uses a rather simple method for labeling the difficulty of trails. In North America, ski resorts ...