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 […]
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U.S. Skiing: Sugarloaf welcomes back U.S. Championships
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Nearly a full year after it was announced that Sugarloaf would be hosting the 2015 U.S. Alpine Championships, the event is finally ready to roll. Some of the best American-born skiers from across the country descended on the Carrabassett Valley mountain Tuesday to get a feel for the slopes leading up to the […]
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U.S. Alpine Championships: Ford fights back from gruesome injury
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Giant slalom is Tommy Ford’s race. The Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships, set for Sugarloaf later this week, are his event. “It will be nice to defend my GS title,” Ford said, hesitating to allow room for the punch line. “Of course, a couple other guys have won it since the last time […]
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U.S. Skiing: Shiffrin enjoying success at early age
Shiffrin, who turned 20 earlier this month, has become the queen of the slalom. She is the reigning Olympic, World Cup and World Championship title holder in the event. The Vail, Colo., native burst onto the scene in 2012 and hasn’t slowed down. Shiffrin is fresh off her third consecutive slalom Crystal Globe, awarded to […]
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Skiing: Morse, U.S. National team a match made at Sugarloaf
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the double meaning more graphically than Morse family photos of younger son, Sam, a month shy of his second birthday, balancing himself on skis and preparing to descend a bunny slope. “It’s definitely a significant part of our lives, as it is for every kid who lives in the Valley,” said Ben, […]
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U.S. Alpine: Slalom, GS specialist Chodounsky looks to defend national title
And edge here. A rock there. The wrong line on a closed gate. Each can mean the difference between being elite and just being really, really fast, particularly in slalom ski racing. From a young age, David Chodounsky gravitated to the slalom and its close cousin, the giant slalom, because of the complexity of the […]
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On skiing: A look at the U.S. Alpine Championships through the eyes of a former champion
Few skiers know Narrow Gauge better than Gail Blackburn. The Sugarloaf skier from Brunswick knows all about the championships coming to Sugarloaf this week. Gail joined the Sugarloaf junior racing program at 10 years old and rapidly progressed through the ranks of junior racing. She expanded her competition when she entered Burke Mountain Academy, but […]
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Seven Sugarloaf skiers injured in chairlift ‘rollback’
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Hank Margolis drives up from Marlborough, Mass., every weekend in the winter to ski at Sugarloaf. On Saturday, a beautiful, crowded day on the slopes, he’d made it 500 feet up the King Pine lift, headed to the top for a run on his snowboard, when it suddenly stopped. Margolis and three […]