The new, $12 million, six-person chairlift isn’t slated to debut until December, while the race typically happens over Thanksgiving weekend.

The U.S. will be able to claim another alpine racing World Cup event on home soil in November 2025, when Copper Mountain will host the Stifel Copper Cup.

Mikaela Shiffrin is not yet competitive in her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms. Federica Brignone is currently close to unbeatable.

Mikaela Shiffrin placed 25th in her first World Cup giant slalom race since her Nov. 30 crash at the Killington World Cup. Paula Moltzan, who was in third after the first run, led the

Shiffrin finishing 2.50 seconds off the lead set by Alice Robinson with more than 30 faster racers ahead of her who advance to the second run in the afternoon. The American star had finished 25th Friday in her first giant slalom since suffering severe trauma to her oblique muscles and a deep puncture wound during a GS crash in Killington,