Author: Vibye Media

In the frozen quiet of a Norwegian fjord-side cabin, as the clock struck midnight and the northern lights flickered like a private light show, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde did what champions do best: He passed the torch. Not with a grand gesture or a viral video, but with a simple, searing text that lit up Mikaela Shiffrin’s phone halfway across the Arctic Circle. “Go get it, my queen.” The message—sent at 00:07 CET from Kilde’s rehab retreat in Voss, Norway—arrived just as Shiffrin wrapped a late-night film session in her Levi hotel room, dissecting gate footage from the day’s training. She…

Mikaela Shiffrin doesn’t whisper when she’s angry. She carves.Three days before the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women’s slalom in Levi, the 30-year-old American stood at the bottom of the Levi Black course, goggles pushed up, breath fogging in the −12 °C air, and delivered a line that instantly ricocheted across skiing’s digital universe. “I’m not here to survive Levi,” she told a huddle of reporters, voice low but edged like her 13-meter Atomic slaloms. “I’m here to own it.” The quote—captured on a shaky iPhone video by a Finnish junior racer—exploded within minutes. By nightfall #OwnLevi was the…

As the chill of the Arctic Circle settles over the snow-dusted slopes of Levi, the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup ignites its technical heart with a festive flourish. American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin has fired the starting gun on social media, declaring “IT’S RACE WEEK” alongside the event hashtags #fisalpine #worldcuplevi, setting the tone for a weekend brimming with high-stakes slalom action and holiday cheer. The 60th edition of the World Cup calendar marks Levi as the early-season slalom epicenter, hosting women’s and men’s events on November 15-16. Women’s slalom kicks off Saturday with the first run at 11:00 CET, followed…

In a serendipitous blend of hard rock heritage and boutique amplification wizardry, guitar icon Jake E. Lee and Friedman Amplification founder Dave Friedman turned an ordinary afternoon into an electrifying jam session, channeling the raw energy of ’70s rock into modern sonic innovation. Described by insiders as a “great day messing around,” the impromptu collaboration at Friedman’s Southern California workshop yielded fresh riffs, amp tweaks, and a palpable excitement that harks back to the golden era of guitar-driven anthems. Lee, the virtuosic axeman best known for his blistering contributions to Ozzy Osbourne’s Bark at the Moon (1983) and The Ultimate…

In a quiet moment amid the roar of the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup season opener, Mikaela Shiffrin reached back to a childhood memory that now feels prophetic. The American superstar, who has rewritten record books with 101 World Cup victories and two Olympic gold medals, shared a page from her past that still guides her present. “When I was a child I wrote in a book of wishes: I want to be Olympic champion,” Shiffrin revealed in a candid FIS Alpine #MemoryBox interview released on the eve of the 2025 Levi slalom. The confession, delivered with her trademark…

As the first snowflakes of the season dust the fabled Levi Black course, the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup returns to this Lapland gem for a festive opener that blends high-stakes racing with Santa’s whimsical touch. It’s race week in Levi, where women’s slalom action ignites on Saturday, November 15, 2025, promising to extend—or perhaps finally eclipse—one of the most unbreakable streaks in modern alpine history. Under the midnight sun’s distant memory and the northern lights’ potential glow, the women’s field descends for the traditional “reindeer” slalom, where victors claim not just glory but a baby reindeer trophy. The…

In the frosty embrace of the Arctic Circle, the Levi Black slope has become a fortress for two of alpine skiing’s most formidable talents. The last 13 women’s slalom races at this iconic FIS Alpine World Cup venue have been claimed exclusively by American superstar Mikaela Shiffrin or her Slovakian rival, Petra Vlhova, underscoring a dominance that borders on the surreal. The streak, which now spans over a decade, traces its origins to the 2015/16 season and continued unabated through the 2023/24 campaign. Shiffrin, a four-time Olympic medalist and record-holding slalom specialist, boasts eight career victories in Levi, including her…

Jake E. Lee, the guitarist who anchored Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band from 1982 to 1987, has opened up about feeling like a “forgotten footnote” in the heavy metal icon’s storied career—until his participation in Osbourne’s farewell concert, Back to the Beginning, restored his sense of recognition. In a recent interview on the Talk Is Jericho podcast with host Chris Jericho, the 68-year-old musician described the event as “maybe one of the best weeks of my life.” Lee, who contributed to two of Osbourne’s landmark solo albums—Bark at the Moon (1983) and The Ultimate Sin (1986)—said he arrived at the show…

Four days before her bid for World Cup win No. 102 in Saturday’s Levi slalom, the 30-year-old American has unveiled the one tool that turned her Sölden fourth-place finish into a Levi launchpad: a custom “micro-rut” training board—a 3-meter carbon-fiber platform that replicates real-time snow chatter, ice patches, and gate-induced ruts at 1:1 scale. “That’s the secret,” Shiffrin said this afternoon, tapping the matte-black device now bolted to the Levi gym floor. “Sölden ice taught me. This board finishes the lesson.” FIS upgraded Levi Black: +2.1° pitch, 3.5 m gates, 33% finish drop. Mikaela Shiffrin inspected today and said: “Perfect.…

FIS Alpine Skiing confirmed today that the 2025/26 World Cup slalom venue has been surgically upgraded with increased pitch, tighter gate spacing, and a steeper finish drop, transforming one of the tour’s most feared hills into a full-on predator. The changes, approved after summer testing with top athletes, aim to “elevate technical demand and separate the elite from the exceptional. Shiffrin, the 30-year-old American with 101 World Cup wins and four Levi slalom titles, inspected the revised layout this afternoon with U.S. Ski Team technical coach Paul Kristofic. Her reaction was immediate—and vintage Shiffrin. “Perfect. I like it nasty.” Shiffrin’s…