Afton native and Olympic cross country skier Jessie Diggins continues to carve out her accomplishments in the Cross Country ski world, and has become the World Champion in the 10 KM skate event.

Source: https://kdwa.com/2023/03/more-gold-for-diggins/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-gold-for-diggins

A lifelong skier and sailor, Frank built a successful career in hospital management, serving as chief administrator at hospitals in Ohio, New York, Maine, and New Jersey.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/06/25/obituaryfrank-lord-muddle-2/

Alpine skier Susan Wang at the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria.

Source: https://www.cloverdalereporter.com/sports/21-surrey-area-special-olympians-to-compete-at-provincial-games-in-kamloops/

Also a keen runner and skier, Llinos' dedication to sport has seen her travel all around the world.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65880273?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin felt all that and more after winning a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/1/24/23569189/mikaela-shiffrin-captures-record-83rd-world-cup-skiing-victory

Among others, the list includes alpine skier Petra Vlhova and football player Alexia Putellas, a two-time winner of both UEFA Women’s Player of the Year Award and the Ballon d’Or Féminin.

Source: https://sloveniatimes.com/garnbret-makes-forbes-list-of-most-influential-young-athletes/

Any snowboarder who has ever run out of speed on a cat track knows it can be essential to have a skier buddy who can give you a tow with a pole, and that same principle apparently applies in the halfpipe.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellebruton/2023/02/28/skiers-and-snowboarders-men-and-women-have-rare-chance-to-compete-together-in-dew-tour-superpipe-jam/

As a Nordic skier and as someone who grew up in Fairbanks, I see it’s become so much milder and wetter.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/31/alaska-youth-climate-change-activist-nathan-baring-lawsuit-fossil-fuel-government

A skier suffered a life-threatening leg injury after triggering an avalanche while skiing down Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast, New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officers said.

Source: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-12-11/skier-triggers-avalanche-on-mount-washington-suffers-life-threatening-injury

At ski resorts, the skier who is downhill has the right of way, so a central question in the case is who was farther down the beginner’s run when the collision transpired.

Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gwyneth-paltrow-utah-ski-trial_n_6419bbbce4b00c3e60760c22

A WORLD champion skier has died suddenly aged just 30.

Source: http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/skiing-shock-pavel-krotov-dead-at-30-world-champion-skier-suddenly-dies-of-brain-haemorrhage-by-joshua-jones/311223

During the fall, the skier was sucked under the moving debris at times and snow was being forced into their mouth, which they had to clear with a hand multiple times.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/04/18/2-people-survive-late-season-southcentral-alaska-avalanches/

Four members of the OOSAR with two snowmobiles and a tracked quad responded to the area after receiving a call for a lost skier from the Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC).

Source: https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/news/lost-skier-rescued-at-mount-baldy-by-oliver-osoyoos-north-shore-rescue-teams/

From Christmas to Easter, I see one skier after another coming back with injuries, and a lot of the time they have been minding their own business in the lift queue until some out-of-control person takes them out.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/29/fad-diets-midday-sun-and-coffee-on-the-sofa-12-doctors-on-the-everyday-dangers-they-avoid

Gwyneth Paltrow exits a courtroom, March 21, 2023, in Park City, Utah, where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier during a 2016 family ski vacation.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/gwyneth-paltrows-trial-alleged-2016-ski-crash-begins/story?id=98015777

“I didn’t come to the museum as a skier or snowboarder; it turned me into one — it inspired me to go down that path.”

Source: https://www.vaildaily.com/sports/colorado-snowsports-museums-skiing-in-colorado-to-debut-on-oct-30/

“I haven’t planned out what I want to do yet,” says the skier from SC Miesbach.

Source: https://www.thewestonforum.com/annika-morgan-is-off-to-a-comfortable-start-to-the-snowboard-world-championships/

Iranian Olympic skier Atefeh Ahmadi has quit her home country and applied for asylum in Germany, a Persian-language media outlet outside Iran reported Saturday, publishing an emotional interview with the athlete.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/01/iranian-olympic-skier-flees-germany-media-report

It was Kilde’s sixth downhill win of the season, making him the first skier to win at least six World Cup downhill events in a single season, according to FIS.

Source: https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/kilde-clinches-saturdays-americas-downhill-at-aspen-world-cup/article_580b7004-bb0f-11ed-badb-5b64737eb023.html

Japanese authorities declined to identify the pair, but US ski magazine Mountain Gazette reported that one of the dead was American professional skier Kyle Smaine.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/news-world/two-dead-after-japan-avalanche/