CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Bruce Miles knows the saying, “It takes a village,” might be a little worn out these days, but Friday he could think of no other way to describe the behind-the-scenes efforts that go into putting on a world-class ski race. Miles, a member of the Sugarloaf Ski Club, and 90 other club […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Nationals brings siblings together
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Like so many other sports and hobbies, skiing tends to run in the family. The love of the slopes is handed down from generation to generation. For most skiing families, the kids are put on skis the moment they learn to walk. The U.S. Alpine Championships have displayed just that, as brothers […]
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U.S. Alpine Championhips: Tried and true, Jitloff rules GS again
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Score one for crow’s feet and weary bones. World Cup veteran Tim Jitloff sped to his third consecutive giant slalom victory at the U.S. Alpine Championships, rallying from a modest deficit of three-hundredths of a second to leapfrog Tommy Ford on the second run Friday afternoon. It is the sixth overall national title […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Auburn’s Layman on home turf
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Auburn native Brooks Layman was a little late to the party. Unlike many top skiers who seem to be placed on skis before they know how to walk, Layman went the first nine years of his life without strapping into a pair of skis. He opted for a snowboard. When Layman was 10, that […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Home game for CVA grad, Casco native Leavitt
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — If Sierra Leavitt stopped skiing or studying long enough to rank the months in her 21 years of life, March 2015 would be an odds-on favorite for No. 1. Two weeks after representing Colby College with a ninth-place finish in giant slalom at the NCAA Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y., good for All-American […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: O’Brien grabs national giant slalom title
O’Brien was in attendance at Wednesday’s men’s super-G event when she watched her boyfriend unexpectedly take the title. On Thursday, the roles were reversed. With Duffy watching in the crowd Thursday, O’Brien took home the women’s giant slalom title with a combined time of 2 minutes, 22.30 seconds at Sugarloaf. O’Brien entered the second run […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Vonn’s comeback tour concludes at Sugarloaf
Thursday’s appearance at Sugarloaf is part victory lap, part motivational speaking tour for Lindsey Vonn. Not that she requires the adulation, and not that she needs to say a word. Vonn, 30, is coming off a season in which she cast out the demons of two surgical reconstructions of her right knee, adding two World […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Hatchet trophies symbol of Sugarloaf’s history
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The MTV Video Music Awards have astronauts, the Teen Choice Awards have surfboards, the American Country Awards have guitars and the Kids’ Choice Awards have orange blimps. There are some creative awards around the entertainment world and sports world and Sugarloaf dishes out some unique trophies as well. On Wednesday, six athletes — three men […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Duffy surprises with super-G title; Morse happy to be home
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — In a field that featured plenty of decorated Olympic athletes, a relative unknown stole the spotlight in the men’s super-G on Wednesday. Drew Duffy edged out Steven Nyman by four hundredths of a second to claim the U.S. Alpine super-G title at Sugarloaf on Wednesday. Duffy entered the race with 26.51 seed points, […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: McKennis leads field; Young Norwegian, Canadians fare well
Of the 43 skiers who competed in the women’s super-G on Wednesday at Sugarloaf, six were born outside the United States. Among those six, five are from Canada. The other, Josefine Selvaag, is a native of Norway. Selvaag, born in 1998, had the top finish among the under-18 group. She finished 14th with a time […]