RSS
Photo by Doug Haney, U.S. Ski Team
Headline RSS Feed- C4 Waterman takes stand-up paddling from surf to snow at Teva Mountain Games in Vail
- GNC Ultimate Mountain Challenge returns to Vail to test top Teva Games athletes
- Registration open for the 2010 Teva Mountain Games
- Vail Nordic Center will close for the season April 4
- Past Olympians, world champions team with celebs for Vail's Korbel American Ski Classic March 17-21
- Vail Valley Foundation looks to fund local competitors through Athlete Commission grants
- Mountain bikers, off-road enthusiasts rally against Hidden Gems wilderness proposal
- Free skating, Pazzo's pizza, hockey gear raffle Sept. 9 at Dobson Ice Arena in Vail
- Vail Resorts, Lindsey Vonn ink four-year sponsorship deal ahead of 2010 Olympics
- Armstrong, Ritter revving up talks to revive Coors Classic-style stage race
- All Real Sport Articles
November 10, 2007 — There are only a few places in the world right now which could host the U.S. Ski Team as they prepare for the North American leg of the World Cup skiing tour � and Keystone is one of them.
U.S. Ski Team members have been training at Keystone�s North Peak since Thursday, Nov. 8, and the report is that conditions are prime, perfect, and couldn�t be better for racing gates.
The (race hill) has been incredible,� said Ski Team member Ted Jitloff, who will be racing giant slalom at Beaver Creek�s Birds of Prey World Cup Dec. 2, part of a four-event, four-day World Cup event Nov. 29 through Dec. 2. Click here for more information on the Charles Schwab Birds of Prey World Cup event.
�We spend most of the year on the road, we�re in Europe, and it�s been incredible training at Keystone. They�ve really rolled out the red carpet for us,� Jitloff said.
Vail�s Lindsey Kildow Vonn and Aspen�s Jake Zamansky are among those training at Keystone in preparation for the coming World Cup schedule. Also spotted during training were men�s team standouts Marco Sullivan, Steve Nyman, and Erik Schlopy.
Next on tap for the men: A world cup downhill and super-G in Lake Louise, Canada, Nov. 24-25, before coming to Beaver Creek for a four-event weekend.
For the women: giant slalom and slalom in Panorama, British Columbia Nov. 24-25, followed by a downhill and super-G in Lake Louise, Canada Dec. 1-2.
Vonn was focused on her training, and not available for comment Nov. 8, but Aspen�s Zamansky said training in his home state is his favorite part of the year.
�I wish our entire season was in Colorado,� laughed Zamansky, who recently bagged a record-setting, 7-by-7 elk and also a record-setting mule deer while hunting with his father near Aspen this season. �It�s beautiful in Colorado, there�s 300 days of sun a year, you can�t beat it.�
Zamansky will have to qualify for the Beaver Creek World Cup by doing well in the upcoming NorAm race scheduled to take place in Keystone Nov. 26-29.
Comment on "Ski Team preps for World Cup season at Keystone" using the form below
