Sentences with phrase «of giant slalom»

Then came the first round of the giant slalom.

He was not only out of the giant slalom but the subsequent Saturday slalom and possibly a lot of this summer as well.

In Scene One on Friday, Killy crashed into a gate during his very first heat of the giant slalom and was out of the race.

The Varsity race format consists of two runs of giant slalom (GS) followed by two runs of slalom (SL) with collated times of the fastest four in each team in each event being input to the scoring system.

Not exact matches

After weather - related delays postponed her first scheduled event, she collected her first gold medal of 2018 in giant slalom.

However, NBCSN will air live coverage of the men's and women's Slopestyle competition, as well as qualifying rounds for the Giant Slalom.

SKIING — BILLY KIDD of Stowe, Vt. scored the first U.S. win in a major Alpine race in Europe in two years, winning one of two giant slalom events in Meg √ ® ve, France.

Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.

However, when it comes to skiing, the Super G is the super giant slalom, of course.

Sally Deaver, perky, pretty Whitemarsh, Pa. skier, won two giant slalom events but lost chance for combined title when officials ruled she missed gate in third race of Grand Prix de Savoie at Val D'Isere, France.

NI ORSI, 16, of Stockton, Calif., took both the downhill and giant slalom in the National Junior Alpine championship in Kingsfield, Me.

SKIING — GORDON EATON, Middlebury College sophomore, handily won the national giant slalom championship at Pinkham Notch, N.H. over Marvin Moriarty of Stowe, Vt..

Phil Mahre of White Pass, Wash, won the giant slalom title at the U.S. National Alpine Ski championships in Mission Ridge, Wash..

SKIING — It was a case of peaking too late: American BARBARA COCHRAN won it all at the World Cup races in Heavenly Valley, Calif. — first the slalom, then the giant slalom — to shut out the tough touring European stars.

Until last Sunday's windup, Killy had not reached any finals of the slalom but he won six of the 12 giant - slalom events.

Strung out along the steep headwall near the top of KT - 22, spectators and competitors watch a racer dart through a gate on the first pitch of the men's giant slalom course, considered one of the world's finest racing trails

In the first race, the ladies» giant slalom, Joan Hannah of the U.S. finished third, behind Fr √ § uleins Jahn and Erika Netzer of Austria, Barbara Ferries and Jean Saubert, two other American girls, coming in fifth and sixth.

SKIING — The U.S. girls fared well in the first post-Olympic meet as KIKI CUTTER of Bend, Ore. won the slalom in Oslo and came in third in the giant slalom, followed by three other Americans — Judy Nagel, Wendy Allen and Suzy Chaffee — who placed fourth, seventh and eighth.

In the World Cup events in Oslo, WERNER BLEINER of Austria won the giant slalom, while PATRICK RUSSEL of France took the slalom.

The French, however, dominated the giant slalom, taking five of the first eight places, Francoise Macchi winning in 1:36.41.

But he hit an instant spotlight when he won the first giant slalom of the year in Val d'Is √ ® re in December.

Any of them could take first place in slalom, giant slalom or downhill.

Dave Harwood of Dartmouth won Louis Orvis giant slalom.

SKIING — In Schladming, Austria, PIRMIN ZUR - BRIGGEN of Switzerland won a downhill to maintain his overall World Cup lead, and RUDI NTERLICH of Austria triumphed in the giant slalom.

D'Arcy Marsh of Putney, Vt. won downhill and Lindley Southerland of Woodstock, Vt. took giant slalom.

PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN of Switzerland won the men's giant slalom championship after placing sixth in that finale.

Betsy Snite has a good chance of winning the slalom, and she can finish among the first three in the downhill and giant slalom.

In the last race before the Olympics, Proell won the giant slalom at St. - Gervais, France and climbed into the lead in the World Cup standings, 203 - 187 over Fran √ ßoise Macchi of France.

Lucy Hannah of Franconia, N.H. took downhill and giant slalom.

The video board froze a giant green No. 1, confirming that Shiffrin, 18, had won the gold medal to become the youngest Alpine medalist in U.S. history and the youngest - ever winner — male or female — of any Olympic slalom.

After winning just one medal in the first five events of the Games (Julia Mancuso's unexpected bronze in the super combined, boosting her U.S. women's record medal total to four), the U.S. won four medals in the final five events, beginning with a silver and a bronze by Andrew Weibrecht and Bode Miller, respectively, in the Super-G, followed by Ted Ligety's dominant gold as the heavy favorite in the giant slalom and, finally, Shiffrin's gold.

Here you go into a series of small turns, which could be called high - speed giant slalom turns.

1 Women who have won a World Cup skiing race in each of the six disciplines (giant slalom, downhill, slalom, Super G, combined and super-combi): Janica Kostelic of Croatia, who won her first Super G on Sunday.

Some friends of mine found a giant slalom track on a ski slope in Jackson Hole and challenged each other to races.

U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her second career gold medal and her first of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the women's giant slalom at the Yongpyong Alpine Center in South Korea.

Slippers prepare the ski course before the first run of the women's giant slalom.

On the way back down, the hill is long, pock - marked with little islands of gorse, heather and bracken, a giant slalom for cows and SUVs, and a spectacular view over nameless moorland.

Swing, flip, and spike your way to the winner's circle across all of the included events: Indoor Volleyball, Racquetball, Air Racing, Freestyle Kayaking, Lacrosse, Fencing, Halfpipe (Snowboarding), Giant Slalom (Skiing), Springboard Diving, and even Log Cutting!

... Former Olympian and current NBC analyst Bode Miller tripped up with his analysis during coverage of the women's giant slalom on Thursday.