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 continued her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms at Sestriere and did not qualify for a second run for the first time since 2012 by placing outside the top 30.

SESTRIERE, Italy — Italian skier Federica Brignone won the first World Cup giant slalom after taking gold at the world championships on Friday, while Mikaela Shiffrin finished 25th in the American’s first race in the discipline in nearly 12 weeks.

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