What Is Super-G? Super-G stands for super giant slalom and combines the speed of downhill racing with the precision of giant slalom. Similarly to a downhill course, super-G courses are made up of a ...

What Is Super-G? Super-G stands for super giant slalom and combines the speed of downhill racing with the precision of giant slalom. Similarly to a downhill course, super-G courses are made up of ...

In the simplest terms, Super-G is one of the disciplines of competitive downhill alpine ski racing. With more turns than downhill and less gates than giant slalom gates, super-G hits a sweet spot ...

Alpine ski racing is broken into several different events with some skiers participating in multiple disciplines and some focusing on one or two. The disciplines include Downhill, Giant Slalom ...

Slalom, downhill, super-G: these are just 3 of the 6 disciplines in the Alpine Ski World Cup. But where are the races at their fastest and which races are all about technique? We explain!

Explore Olympic Alpine skiing basics—learn about all events (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, combined), competition rules and how medals are won at the Winter Games.

In its simplest terms, alpine skiing is the type of skiing you'd probably describe if you were to try to tell a Martian about the sport. Technically, alpine skiing is just skiing downhill with ...

On the brink of a potential Olympic return, skier Lindsey Vonn recalls her very first Olympics at the 2002 Salt Lake City ...

Lindsey Vonn bounced back with a 13th-place finish in the Super-G a day after skiing out of the downhill in Germany.

Marco Odermatt opened a World Championships where he could be the defining skier by winning the super-G by the largest margin in any speed race at worlds in 34 years. Odermatt, the 27-year-old Swiss ...

Every race of the 2025 World Alpine Skiing Championships airs live on Peacock from Saalbach, Austria. The World Championships, which conclude Sunday, feature men’s and women’s downhill, super-G, giant ...

Super-G slopes are similar to downhill slopes (400m–650m for men and 400m–600m for women), but they have gates like slalom and giant slalom that racers must pass through, and racers must stay within ...