France’s world downhill champion Marion Rolland will miss the Sochi Olympics because of a serious injury to her right knee, the French ski federation (FFS) announced Friday. The 30-year-old sustained the injury in a training fall in the Nevados de Chillan mountains in Chile ...

Japan’s reigning individual World Cup champion Sara Takanashi captured her first Grand Prix title of the season in the third leg of the series in Russia on Friday. The 16-year-old Sochi Olympic gold medal hope led after a first jump of 96.5 meters and ...

Women’s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi nailed the day’s longest jump in the second round to win the Myoko summer jump in Niigata Prefecture on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, a gold medal hope for Japan at next year’s Sochi Olympics, jumped 96.5 meters before ...

Women’s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi continued her preparations for next year’s Sochi Olympics with a superb performance on Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi was the only jumper to clear the K point on both jumps, while showing solid form in her Telemark landings, an ...

Teenager Sara Takanashi posted a first-round jump of 105.5 meters to help Japan win the mixed team event at the FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix in Germany on Saturday. Takanashi, second in the women’s individual competition on Friday, Yuki Ito, Noriaki Kasai and ...

Teenager Sara Takanashi placed second in the women’s competition at the FIS Ski Jumping Summer Grand Prix on Friday. The 16-year-old Takanashi, last year’s overall World Cup champion, posted the biggest jumps of the day (104 and 103.5 meters), but she failed to muster ...

Last season’s women’s World Cup overall champion and Sochi Olympic gold medal hope Sara Takanashi comfortably won the first summer jump event of the season on Sunday. The 16-year-old had a first first-round jump of 59.5 meters and followed it up with the day’s ...

Sara Takanashi missed out on a fifth consecutive World Cup ski jump victory Friday, finishing second to American Sarah Hendrickson in Trondheim, Norway, at the season’s penultimate event. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who has already secured the overall World Cup title, landed the day’s longest ...

Women’s World Cup champion Sara Takanashi was cut down to size by Ayuka Takeda as she finished second at the Ski Jumping National Championships on Saturday. Takanashi took the lead after the first round with an 85.5 meter effort and then had the day’s ...

Miki Ito won her second silver medal of the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in the women’s dual moguls on Friday. Ito won the silver in the moguls on Wednesday and she admitted she was a little disappointed to have had to make do ...

Miki Ito won the silver medal in the women’s moguls at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships on Wednesday. American Hannah Kearney took the gold and the bronze went to Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe. It was the 25-year-old Ito’s second world medal after placing second in ...

Sara Takanashi collected her second medal of the Nordic skiing world championships after Japan won a gold in the mixed team ski jumping Sunday. The 16-year-old Takanashi teamed up with Yuki Ito and male jumpers Daiki Ito and Taku Takeuchi for Japan’s first gold ...