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Switzerland's signature ski race, scheduled for later this week in the Alpine village of Wengen, was cancelled Monday after a rise in COVID-19 infections was blamed partly on tourists from Britain.

American skier Tommy Ford was airlifted to the hospital after crashing in a World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday in Adelboden, Switzerland.

Michelle Gisin earned her maiden World Cup win on Tuesday, becoming the first Swiss skier to win a women's slalom in nearly 19 years.

Alexis Pinturault held off a challenge from unheralded Norwegian skier Atle Lie McGrath to win the classic men's World Cup giant slalom on the Gran Risa course Sunday in Alta Badia, Italy.

Wanting more than a top-15 finish from speed events this season, Canada's Marie-Michèle Gagnon delivered on Saturday in Val d'Isere, France, where she placed 10th and only 88-100ths of a second behind winner Sofia Goggia of Italy.

Defending overall champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won a men's World Cup super-G on Friday in Val Gardena, Italy, for his first podium result of the season.

World Cup downhill champion Corinne Suter won the season-opening race in the discipline Friday, while Nicole Schmidhofer suffered unknown injuries in a high-speed crash that sent her through the safety fencing in Val d'Isere.

Set for a return to ski racing after 300 days away, Mikaela Shiffrin is looking for the answer to a question she has been asking herself since March. How will it feel to compete again?

The challenge of reaching top-level status in Alpine speed events remains a "game of patience" for skier Marie-Michèle Gagnon entering her 13th World Cup season, which begins Saturday at a giant-slalom event in Soelden, Austria.

Skier Shannon-Ogbani Abeda’s journey to becoming the first winter Olympian to represent Eritrea carried with it a racial burden he says he’s only now beginning to unravel.