Alpine

Swiss residents and tourists alike are partying like they haven’t since 1999. The town of Vevey has kicked off the 12th “Fete des Vignerons,” or Winemakers Festival, the latest installment in a centuries-old tradition of celebrating vineyard workers — which nowadays takes place only once a generation. Festival organizers have pulled out the stops for the celebration in Vevey, a...

Determining why a vintage plane crashed in the Swiss Alps will be challenging since the 79-year-old aircraft did not have black boxes and was traveling in an area without frequent radar readings when it plunged into a mountain, killing all 20 of the people on board, investigators said Sunday. The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by Swiss company Ju-Air, moved at...

A long-odds effort to split California into three states has qualified for the November ballot, state officials said Tuesday.

Lindsey Vonn cast a quick glance toward the sky after finishing what was likely her final Olympic downhill run, shrugged her shoulders after seeing her time and shook a friendly index finger at her good friend. No one could catch Sofia Goggia of Italy.

Marcel Hirscher has turned his domination in the giant slalom into a second gold medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The 28-year-old Austrian star extended his first-run lead to win by a huge margin of 1.27 seconds over hard-charging Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway. Kristoffersen rose from 10th-fastest in the morning with the quickest time in the second run. Alexis Pinturault of...

Back at the last Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin exuberantly talked about chasing five gold medals this time around. Now it turns out she’ll only enter three races at the 2018 Games. The two-time gold medalist dropped out of Tuesday night’s downhill race, an anticipated showdown against Lindsey Vonn, so she can focus on the Alpine combined event that was moved up...

Four years ago, snowboarder A.J. Muss had a decision to make: Keep his Olympics hopes alive, or keep his heart working properly. Muss had just awoken from a medically induced coma. Days earlier, he had flat-lined in a back of an ambulance after a heart problem caused his lungs to fill with fluid and eventually puncture.

Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other Thursday to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games, as their countries press ahead with rare reconciliation steps following a period of nuclear tensions. A dozen North Korean hockey players wearing white-and-red winter parkas crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea earlier...

Strong wind has forced the Pyeongchang Olympic men’s downhill to be postponed. The first race of the 11-event Alpine program was scheduled for Sunday. But three hours before it was supposed to start, race organizers said the downhill would be moved to a different day. They did not immediately announce a new date.

Hanna Oeberg did all she could. She was perfect in her shooting bouts, and she skied just as fast. And that was more than enough for the Swede to capture her first Olympic gold medal. Oeberg finished the women’s 15km individual Thursday in 41 minutes, 7.2 seconds to score an upset win in the event at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre...

Aksel Lund Svindal won the men’s downhill Thursday, making the 35-year-old Norwegian the oldest Olympic gold medalist in Alpine skiing. Svindal was 0.12 seconds faster than Norway teammate Kjetil Jansrud down the 1 4/5-mile (2.9-kilometer) course at Jeongseon. Beat Feuz of Switzerland took bronze, 0.18 behind Svindal’s time of 1 minute, 40.25 seconds.

Instead of laughing off or owning up to making a wrong call the night before in the women’s super-G, NBC’s ski announcers seemed intent on justifying themselves Saturday night.

Switzerland knocked off top-seeded Austria in the gold-medal race of the Olympic debut of the Alpine team event on Saturday. Norway edged France during the bronze-medal match as the Alpine ski program came to a close at the Pyeongchang Games.

After two disappointing runs, Red Gerard came back to earn gold for the US in men’s snowboard slopestyle. It was Team USA’s first medal at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

Sabrina Wanjiku Simader finished 38th out of 44 in the women’s super-G in the Pyeongchang Games but the 19-year-old made the record books — as the first Alpine skier from Kenya to compete in a Winter Games. Simader follows Philip Boit, a cross-country skier who debuted at the 1998 Games in Nagano and who until now was the only Kenyan...

Primetime was again highlighted by the team figure skating event. American Bradie Tennell was able to keep her nerves in check, skating a clean short program. Red Gerard delivered in his final run to capture gold in the men’s snowboard slopestyle. Lastly, the wind has created some issues, postponing men’s downhill and women’s snowboard slopestyle. For the second Olympics in...

From Lindsey Vonn’s final Olympic medal to a snowboarder winning an Alpine skiing race, check out the best moments from the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing competition.

Alpine skiing champion Lindsey Vonn placed sixth during the women’s Super-G, her first competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Despite not medaling in her first race at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Vonn is not letting the Twitter trolls get her down.