MATTHIAS MAYER

Back home in Vermont, Barbara Ann Cochran grabbed a laptop to keep tabs on how the boy she put on skis at age 2 would fare.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle's silver in the super-G at the Beijing Games has given the United States its first men's Alpine skiing Olympic medal since 2014.

Matthias Mayer became the first man to win gold medals in Alpine skiing at three straight Olympics after finishing first in the super-G at the Beijing Games.

It was a miserable day on the mountains outside of Beijing for American stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Red Gerard.

Switzerland's Beat Feuz gets to the finish area after completing an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill, in Kitzbuehel, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. The Swiss skier won this weekend’s second men’s World Cup downhill on the Streif course Sunday, repeating his victory from two days earlier. No Swiss skier had won Austria's signature ski race since Didier Cuche earned the last of his five victories here in 2012. Feuz won the season-long downhill title the past three seasons. There will be one more World Cup downhill, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Feb. 6, before next month's world championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Austrian Olympic champ Matthias Mayer was the first skier to deploy new airbag vest technology in a World Cup race. But as Contessa Brewer reports, not all skiers are embracing the new technology.