Eric Willemsen
@eWilmedia
| 🇳🇱 journalist in 🇦🇹 | Austria correspondent for @NPORadio1 and others | also covering Alpine skiing, mainly for @AP | posting only ⛷️ content here on X |
SKIERS WITH 8⃣ GLOBES IN ONE CLASSIFICATION: > Mikaela #Shiffrin 🇺🇸 – slalom (2013-24) > Marcel #Hirscher 🇦🇹 – overall (2012-19) > Lindsey #Vonn 🇺🇸 – downhill (2008-16) > Ingemar #Stenmark 🇸🇪 – giant slalom (1975-84) > Ingemar #Stenmark 🇸🇪 – slalom (1975-83) #FISAlpine

“Even in difficult moments, my answer never changed: I want to race again.” Marcel #Hirscher eyes another return in 2025-26 after his comeback season was cut short last year. Still has 17 of 20 wild card starts available. By @AndrewDampf ⬇️ #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/marcel…
World Cup prize money up by at least 🔟% next season, but... "... we still have a lot to do when it comes to rewarding our athletes as they deserve,” @fisalpine President Johan Eliasch says. From @AP_Sports ⬇️ #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/skiing…
Some remarks: ▶️ #Sölden-#Levi-#Gurgl travel hassle remains ▶️ no home race for @MikaelaShiffrin in #Killington (gets new chairlift), but in #CopperMountain ▶️ no #Bormio & #Cortina (Olympics!) ▶️ #Semmering replaces #Lienz ▶️ just 2 weekends of racing outside 🇪🇺 #FISAlpine
Here we are 🤩 The provisional calendars of the Audi FIS World Cup 2025/2026! ⛷️ Save the dates! 🗓️ From 1 to 10, how excited are you? 🔥 #fisalpine
Finishing up the best season of her career, Federica #Brignone breaks multiple bones in her left leg during a GS crash at the 🇮🇹 championships ⬇️ #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/federi…
It's a wrap — Zrinka #Ljutic 🇭🇷 and Henrik #Kristoffersen 🇳🇴 earn the last globes of 2024-25 🔮🔮 Remarkable: Both Mikaela #Shiffrin 🇺🇸 and Clément #Noël 🇫🇷 win 4⃣ slaloms this season, but both are not even in the top 3 of the final discipline standings. #SunValley #FISAlpine

“I’ve been knocked down so many times in my life personally, physically, mentally, beat down and I always pick myself back up.” @lindseyvonn, 40, ends comeback season on podium — a testament to her strength and self-belief ⬇️ #SunValley #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/womens…

Lara #GutBehrami 🇨🇭! That's what you call peaking at the right time 🔮 (And Lindsey #Vonn 🇺🇸 earning her first World Cup podium in 7⃣ years..!) #SuperG #SunValley #FISAlpine

“I need to work on my snowboard skills as well right now. Now I am skiing, tomorrow I am snowboarding.” ⛷️x🏂 Said Ester #Ledecka 🇨🇿 after winning DH 🥉 at the ski world champs in February. Today, Ledecka won parallel GS 🥇 at the snowboard worlds. Wow! apnews.com/article/alpine…
Who needs what at the World Cup finals? 🤔 Here are the calculations of the two men's globes still to be confirmed. See yesterday's posts for the four women's globes. #SunValley #FISAlpine


“It’s still a big gap. So, he has to fail it a little bit and I have to do something very special like today.” Loic #Meillard 🇨🇭 wins last SL before WC finals, closes gap to Henrik #Kristoffersen 🇳🇴 in SL standings to 47 points ⬇️ #Hafjell #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/skiing…
“It’s crazy, and doing it here, at home, it’s even more crazy.” Not officially yet, but safe to say Federica #Brignone has brought home her 2nd overall World Cup title by winning a super-G near her hometown in the Aosta Valley ⬇️ #LaThuile #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/skiing…
“Sometimes it’s a little bit hypocrite, because everyone is talking about safety and then we race in these conditions.” Lara #GutBehrami 🇨🇭 not too happy with super-G course after heavy snowfall. And Emma #Aicher 🇩🇪 wins again ⬇️ #LaThuile #FISAlpine apnews.com/article/superg…
Another day, another record 🧮 Maybe even more impressive than those 1⃣5⃣6⃣ World Cup podiums in total, is the fact that @MikaelaShiffrin's podium rate is above 30% in each of the six Alpine disciplines. #Shiffrin #FISAlpine

🎾x⛷️ #RolandGarros junior champion Lilli #Tagger draws inspiration from her idols @MikaelaShiffrin ("mentally I can learn a lot from her") and @lindseyvonn ("a legend, and therefore a huge inspiration") — who, on their turn, are both big tennis fans ⬇️ sport.orf.at/stories/314216…