Author: Glyn

One hundred athletes from sixty countries around the globe took on Killington for the 7th year in an incredible weekend at the annual Women’s Audi Ski World Cup. Mother nature complied and the course on Superstar was an icy vertical sheet, just how the athletes like it.

Dropping at 1,200 vertical feet, 4,800 in length with a pitch from 30 to 50 degrees for the Giant Slalom, the course is steep. On the final headwall section, also known as Preston’s Pitch, it’s a steep, slick drop off onto some Northeast ice that’s been manicured and designed for maximal speed to the finish line. Throw in more cowbell and you get a course worthy of the finest female racers on the planet.

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Superstar was a pile of mud and muck two weeks before the races and that had the town, community and Killington Cup fans at large wondering if the event would even go down. Mother nature complied in the nick of time, transforming Superstar — at the base of the spanking new K1 Lodge — into a course worthy of some of the fastest female skiers on the planet.

With a healthy dose of cold Canadian air and a dedicated snow making crew and even a bit of lake effect, the event pushed the envelope as the skiers raced against the impending forecasts of rain for Sunday’s slalom event.

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Some mean-spirited wind cut short the first day of the Killington World Cup 2021. After the first nine racers — including America’s darling Mikaela Shiffrin — took their chances on an icy Superstar run, officials decided to cancel the days event. The snowy gusts kept tripping up the finish line lasers and the day looked potentially dangerous, and that was that.

The band O.A.R. saved the day from being a complete blowout as they played a blistering set in the cold, warming up the disappointed crowd. Singer/guitarist Marc Roberge did a great job taking on party central as the crowd sang along to the bands upbeat hits.

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