James Crawford and Cameron Alexander, riding high after a historic double podium in Kitzbuehel, aim for more success at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Austria. The duo will compete in several events, including downhill and super-G, with the world championship serving as a crucial stepping stone towards the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
James Crawford and Cameron Alexander bring a combination of confidence and hunger to the world alpine ski championship.
The biennial world championship starting Tuesday at the Austrian resort in Saalbach-Hinterglemm will be their first races since Kitzbuehel.The world championship is a performance indicator on the Canadians’ road to the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy. “There’s other things I'd like to be able to accomplish at the world championships like a downhill. It would also be very cool to be able to contend again to defend my super-G title. I don’t know how many times in a career you get that opportunity.
“You always take confidence from big results, but you need to continue to always be looking to go super hard because everybody is going to be really hard and pushing all the time and that’s what it takes every race. I can’t expect because I did well in one spot that I’m going to be good at the other.”
Alexander and Crawford, both 27, rank sixth and seventh in the world in downhill, with Alexander holding the No. 7 spot in super-G. “Nobody in this room is surprised. We’ve been at this level for a while. It’s cool that it came together in Kitz because it’s such a famed venue, but for us, it’s important that we don’t want to get overcomfortable or overly confident.”
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