The Birds of Prey race course has a long and storied history of prepping athletes for Olympic glory. In fact, every male Olympic medalist dating back to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, has stood on the Birds of Prey podium at one point in his career. Athletes embarking on the road toward the 2026 Games in Milano-Cortina, Italy, will kick out of the start at the 2025 Stifel Birds of Prey for a Downhill, Super G, and Giant Slalom Dec. 5-7 with two goals in mind: a Birds of Prey victory and Olympic gold. First DH Training scheduled already for tomorrow Tuesday. 05 Dec 19:15 CET Downhill 06 Dec 18:30 CET Super G 07 Dec 18:00 / 21:00 CET Giant Slalom HEAD SKI Photo: GEPA-pictures.com Text: Birds of Prey World Cup #sportivo

🇺🇸 "We've been speaking Russian since day one." Stars of the US national team – Efimova and Mitrofanov ✈️ The Mitrofanov family's emigration is a crime series. Racketeering, shooters in cemeteries, and private special forces ⛸Training with Moskvina, Mishin, and even Alexander Zaitsev. The skaters have a Russian pairs school 🇷🇺 "We share a common Russian cultural background." Their couple formed thanks to... social media 💍A "secret" wedding, a tradition of watching Formula 1, and differences in diet 🕊️A program in honor of Gordeeva and Grinkov. Katya gave her approval and even helped choreograph it! Interview with Bagryantseva ✍🏻 #sportivo

We’re deeply sorry to share this… 💔 Lara Gut-Behrami is out for the rest of the season after suffering an ACL tear during a training crash last Thursday in Copper Mountain. 🙏 Stay strong, Lara! ❤️💪 We wish you a strong, smooth and speedy recovery. #FISAlpine

Mikaela Shiffrin Extends Ski Racing Dominance in Gurgl, but Tragic World Cup Day Ends With Heartbreaking News In the crisp alpine air of Gurgl, Austria, Mikaela Shiffrin etched another chapter in her legendary career on November 23, 2025, claiming her record-extending 103rd World Cup victory in the women's slalom. The 30-year-old American phenom dominated the Kirchenkar course, finishing 1.23 seconds ahead of Albania's rising star Lara Colturi, with Switzerland's Camille Rast securing third. It marked Shiffrin's second consecutive slalom win to open the 2025-26 season, following her triumph in Levi, Finland, and her 66th career slalom crown—both all-time records."Not easy, but I knew the others were pushing," Shiffrin said post-race, her aggressive lines flawless under sunny skies that transformed the icy track. Teammate Paula Moltzan impressed with fifth place, bolstering U.S. hopes ahead of next week's Copper Mountain races. Shiffrin, now the overall standings leader, eyes Milano Cortina 2026 gold with renewed fire.Yet the day's euphoria shattered with heartbreaking news: French slalom specialist Julien Heer, 28, suffered a catastrophic crash during a training run earlier that morning, succumbing to severe head injuries en route to the hospital. Heer, a consistent top-20 contender with two prior podiums, leaves behind a wife and young daughter. The FIS suspended all sessions in somber tribute, as racers and officials grappled with grief. Shiffrin, visibly shaken, dedicated her win to Heer: "Skiing's joy comes with these shadows—we race for them."Gurgl's glamour faded into reflection, underscoring alpine's perilous edge. As Shiffrin prepares for home soil, the community mourns a brother lost too soon, vowing fiercer resolve. #HeartbreakingNews #TragicWorldCup #MikaelaShiffrin

Hosokawa entered Los Angeles as Japan’s top contender at -60 kg. What almost nobody knew was that he was carrying a serious rib injury from training shortly before the Olympics. The cartilage around the rib was damaged enough that twisting, gripping, and even breathing sharply caused pain. His team considered pulling him out, but he refused. In the semifinal he faced Kim Jae-Yup, an explosive Korean judoka who would later become Olympic champion in 1988. Kim was young, aggressive, and famous for his brutal seoi-nage entries. Hosokawa, fighting with restricted movement, had to rely on perfect timing and footwork. He won, but the effort pushed his injury to the limit. By the time he reached the final against Neil Eckersley, the pain was so strong that he couldn’t rotate his upper body normally. Still, he stepped onto the tatami and executed one of the cleanest, most precise seoi-nage sequences of the entire tournament. His kuzushi was flawless. His commitment was absolute. He secured the victory and became Olympic champion. What people didn’t see were the X-rays afterward showing the level of damage he had fought through, or the hours of training he completed without being able to sleep properly because of the pain. Hosokawa’s gold medal wasn’t just a technical victory. It was a demonstration of how far an athlete can push when everything hurts and quitting would have been the logical choice. Most champions win with their best weapons. Hosokawa won with one of them almost taken away. Have you heard this story before? 🥋🔥👇 #Judo #jiujitsu #bjj #mma #ufc #Olympics

Amber Glenn 🇺🇸 75.72 “You know, I haven’t been feeling my best. I’ve been sleeping a lot since I got here, and if anything, I felt a bit slow and sluggish, but it might have helped in my favor. I was very relaxed, very calm, almost a little too much. I had to really pump myself up to get the Axel done, and then I kind of felt like: okay… but I felt like I could do another program afterwards. I wasn’t tired. I wasn’t breathing heavy. I’m just sleepy, it is from the medications, but it’s just antibiotics. You know, my body is fighting off infections.” “I did notice ahead of the skate that I lost one of my earrings. I don’t know where it went. I’m just glad I saw myself in the mirror before I went out. It would look very silly with one earring.” “Well, the quality is not bad, but it’s just not what we’re used to. I don’t think it’s slippery, it’s soft, so you slide a lot more. Whereas a lot of us are used to harder ice because we share with hockey skaters and all that. So it’s a little harder to get up in the air. Especially on picks, jumps are a lot harder. Edge jumps are fine.” “I mean, I’m 26, I’m doing it for so long. Luckily, I’ve had a lot of good mental training that kept me over my feet, but it was not necessarily the best jumps I’ve ever done.” #GPFigure #GPFinland #FigureSkating

Elena Kostyleva after the free program at the Junior Grand Prix stage in Russia in Omsk: "I go step by step, element by element, sometimes I even forget what I did at the beginning of the program. I didn’t think at all about the elements that didn’t work out. Is it harder to repeat what you’ve already done? I don’t know about that, I didn’t think about it. Last season I even did more than that many times. It’s probably a shortcoming in training. How is your physical condition? Basically, everything is fine. I won’t blame any problems for my mistakes. It’s my fault. Is it a psychological factor? I wouldn’t say it’s psychology. I relaxed a bit, started thinking about what I did during the warm-up, but in the program, I went as if I was still in the warm-up; in the program, you need to be more focused. Is winning gold and silver medals at the stages a good result? No. It’s good, but not for me. I could have done much more. I myself said that it’s all in my head, the coach said it’s experience to take these mistakes into account in the future so that they don’t happen again at bigger competitions.". Cr: TASS

‼️ Lara Gut-Behrami crashed on Thursday during Super-G training in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Initial assessments on site indicate a possible injury to her left knee. 🔙 The Olympic Super-G champion will return to Switzerland as soon as possible for comprehensive medical examinations. No statement regarding the extent of the injury can be made until these assessments have been completed. ℹ️ Further information will be communicated once a diagnosis is available. #fisalpine

Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky — about working with Eteri Tutberidze 💬 DK: Eteri Georgievna is our main inspiration. Sasha and I treat her with great respect and student love. She is an absolutely amazing person, besides being an amazing specialist. She is really very attentive to her athletes. It is very comfortable for us to work on the ice with Eteri Georgievna and comfortable to interact with her off the ice. And we are glad that we have such a relationship with her. We can’t imagine our sports career without her now. AB: She is always present at program setups, gives her opinion, helps with transitions, suggests some tricks. DK: That’s when we work with outside specialists. We have programs that Eteri Georgievna and Daniil Gleikhengauz just set for us. AB: And if we talk about the training process, she always comes to our ice, makes remarks, notes moments she would like to correct. DK: She exercises global management over our pair. AB: She likes that we have become more mature, conscious. That our skating lines have improved — this is all the work of Stanislav Alexandrovich Morozov’s influence. She said we have become more stately, — the skaters said on Okko broadcast.. 📸Sport24

Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS 🇺🇸 3./189.27 SB Michael: l think 95% of that program was very good. And, again, it was a mistake that we wish we didn’t make, but it is what it is. So I think looking back, we’re really proud of the training that we put into these programs. We’re really proud of the rhythm dance that we did here. And we know our jobs, which is to go back home and train as hard as we can and get ready for Nationals, which is our next event. (on recovering from injury) The last couple of weeks have been an interesting mix of recovery and training. But we’re feeling really good physically now. It’s just about getting even stronger and keeping our health where we want it to be, leading up to Nationals. Caroline: I think that with all the travel and the back-to-back competition, it definitely takes a toll physically, and I think that was definitely what we were feeling here, but I was really proud of our ability to deliver the rhythm dance that we did and to push through despite the mistake. I think it’s really easy to have that happen and then let the whole program snowball. So I’m really proud of how we just stayed together. We came back in and just focused for the rest of the program. Michael: And I guess the silver lining is we know that we’re so much better than how we’ve skated and we’ve skated really well. So I think looking at it that way, we’re really excited for Nationals, to put 2 very strong skates together and show people what we’ve been working on all year. #FigureSkating #WarsawCup #CSFigure

“It’s Starting to Feel More Like Home”: Mikaela Shiffrin Shares Rare Behind-the-Scenes Look at Copper Mountain Training Ahead of Historic Home World Cup...[MORE PHOTOS] ⬇️ https://vibyemedia.com/2025/11/19/its-starting-to-feel-more-like-home-mikaela-shiffrin-shares-rare-behind-the-scenes-look-at-copper-mountain-training

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