Alberto Tomba is the most decorated Italian skier in Olympic history with five medals: three golds and two silvers, won at Calgary in 1998, Albertville in 1992 and Lillehammer in 1994. While he’s from the Bologna area, Tomba spent many winters training in Cortina before he became a star.

Stifel U.S. Ski Team’s Mikaela Shiffrin delivered another podium finish, charging to second place in a nail-biter of a World Cup that came down to the final turns in Sunday’s slalom in Kranjska Gora,

Shiffrin delivered her "best possible run" to come from behind and win yet another World Cup slalom race with the Olympics nearing.

Mikaela Shiffrin has plenty to celebrate this Christmas. The American skiing standout is off to a perfect start in slalom during the Olympic season with four wins in four World Cup races.

In Olympic sports this weekend, Mikaela Shiffrin takes arguably the most dominant stretch of slalom skiing in history into the last Alpine skiing World Cup stop of 2025 — a giant slalom and slalom in Semmering, Austria, on Saturday and Sunday (live on NBCSN and Peacock ).

Olympic slalom silver medalist Katharina Liensberger of Austria, a rival of Mikaela Shiffrin in the event, sustained serious knee injuries in a crash in training that effectively ends her season, skiing's governing body said on Friday.

Jan 2 - Austria's 2022 Olympic slalom silver medallist Katharina Liensberger is set to miss the Milano Cortina Games after suffering a serious knee injury in a training crash. Read more at straitstimes.

Austria’s Katharina Liensberger to miss Milano Cortina Winter Games after knee injury in alpine skiing training fall.