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Ups and downs for Lara Gut-Behrami at her home event in St. Moritz. In the Super-G on Saturday, the Swiss athlete celebrated her 33rd World Cup victory, the first of the season. On Sunday, the 30-year-old fell during the second Super-G race and managed to escape with bruises. Elena Curtoni finished second in this race, just missing her second World Cup victory by eleven-hundredths of a second. Alexis Pinturault stood on the podium for the first time this season, finishing in second place in the Giant Slalom in Val d'Isere on Saturday.

#HEADswimming's best moments of 2021 with superb images from Carel du Plessis.

A beautiful sunset on a beach in Malta the day before the XTERRA Europe race!

Gaëtan Vivien & Solenne Billouin, two athletes who are crazy for off-road triathlon.

HEAD Swimming wetsuits glued to the body like a second skin!

HEAD presents a new series of DELTA racquets, the most powerful of the collection that includes five new models: Delta Pro, Delta Motion, Delta Elite, EVO Delta and Delta Junior. 

HEAD racquets have been the runaway world No 1 brand on the global professional tennis circuit in 2021. The year ends with five of the top 10 men playing with a HEAD, three of the four men’s Grand Slam tournaments being won by HEAD players, the men’s Olympic gold medal too, and the top women’s player and double-champion at Roland Garros representing the HEAD brand.

In the Super-G in Beaver Creek on Thursday, Broderick Thompson charged to the podium for the first time in his career. The 27-year-old Canadian athlete, who suffered a serious knee injury in 2018, finished third. The HEAD Worldcup Rebels clocked up several more podium finishes in the speed discipline events in Beaver Creek and Lake Louise thanks to Matthias Mayer from Austria and Beat Feuz, Corinne Suter and Lara Gut-Behrami from Switzerland.

In the first speed race of the season, the Downhill in Lake Louise on Saturday, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels impressively confirmed their clear position as number 1 in this discipline with a triple victory. Matthias Mayer from Austria won in Canada ahead of his compatriot and Downhill World Champion Vincent Kriechmayr and Beat Feuz from Switzerland, who won the Crystal Globe in the Downhill last season. In the women's events, Wendy Holdener finished third on Sunday, racing to her 28th World Cup Slalom podium finish in Killington, USA.

A great start to the World Cup in Slalom for Lena Dürr and the HEAD Worldcup Rebels. The German athlete raced to her first World Cup podium in the Slalom on Saturday in Levi, finishing in third place - the first podium finish in this discipline for the German women ski racers in eight years. Anna Swenn-Larsson celebrated a brilliant comeback in fifth place. On Sunday Lena Dürr followed up with another podium in the second Slalom event in Levi, finishing third.

Großartiger Weltcup-Auftakt im Slalom für Lena Dürr und die HEAD Worldcup Rebels. Die Deutsche fuhr am Samstag in Levi als Dritte zu ihrem ersten Weltcup-Podium im Slalom – der erste Podestplatz in dieser Disziplin für die deutschen Damen seit acht Jahren. Anna Swenn-Larsson feierte als Fünfte ein fulminantes Comeback. Am Sonntag legte Lena Dürr beim zweiten Levi-Slalom mit Platz drei ein weiteres Podium nach.

Here's a guide to dressing well for skiing and snowboarding, with advice on layering, what to wear and what not to wear. Plus why one of the most important decisions you are going to make is which socks you pull on.

Racing to third place in the parallel event in Lech/Zürs, Atle Lie McGrath makes an impressive return to form on Sunday. After finishing second in Alta Badia last season, his first World Cup podium finish, the 21-year-old Norwegian athlete was forced to end his season prematurely in January due to a ligament injury.

From time to time you may find yourself with the back against the wall. Doubts building up, but at the same time a panting flame is lit. Like the great poet Eminem once said, “Success is my only m********n' option, failure's not.” And with a similar credo the team within HEAD Ski division went to work. The task ahead was not a small one though. And based on previous attempts a fresh start was clearly the only option.

Lara Gut-Behrami skied seamlessly from one great season to the next at the opening event of the 2021/22 World Cup in Sölden. The Swiss athlete finished second in the Giant Slalom on the Rettenbach Glacier in Tyrol on Saturday, missing victory by just 14 hundredths of a second. In the men's Giant Slalom on Sunday, winner of the discipline last season - Alexis Pinturault - finished in fifth place.

Seven World Championship Gold medals, one overall Crystal Globe and four discipline Crystal Globes as well as 19 World Cup victories - with this impressive tally from last season, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels start the next World Cup year on October 23 and 24 in Sölden. This season, the Rebels are again looking to confirm their status as the best ski team in the world. The highlight of the season is the Olympic Games, which will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20.

Time is indeed relative, Einstein proved it if nothing else, but how much can our experience of time differ? Sheila Street, mother of Sam Kuch, states that her son can slow time down. How that works, we lack the brains to grasp, even more to explain. It is however clear to us that watching Sam Kuch ski is a sacred experience. The impossible and the completely natural intertwined. The realisation that some things are just meant to happen, that some people are meant to do exactly what they’re doing at that given moment. You can envy them or just surrender, lean back and enjoy the ride.

HEAD Sportswear presents their new ‘We are padel’ clothing line, designed especially for padel players seeking comfort and style in equal measure.

Tennis players talk a lot about 'the moment'. Being in the moment, staying in the moment, living in the moment.

The inside story of how two British scientists collaborated with HEAD on the innovative Auxetic construction, which will give you sensational feel with every shot.

HEAD, the global leader in performance sporting goods, is releasing a limited-edition Laver Cup collection to celebrate its multi-year agreement with the tournament to be the official tennis ball, racquet, string and racquet bag supplier, as well as the official stringer. The product range, which includes racquets and bags, will be available exclusively on HEAD.com from September 7.

With newcomers Stefan Luitz, Stephanie Venier, Tanguy Nef, Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, the HEAD Worldcup Rebels enter the 2021/22 season stronger than ever. HEAD team colleagues Ted Ligety, Bernadette Schild, Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Jonathan Nordbotten and Alice McKennis retire from ski racing.

LAURA MASSARO has revealed that the 2021 British Open has brought memories of her greatest triumphs flooding back.

Tennis Terms from A to Z you should know. A Tennis Glossary for Basic Tennis Terms, Tennis Rules and more.

We are refreshing the names of our racquet models. The first racquet silo to move to the new naming structure is the PRESTIGE 2021.

AS the PSA World Squash Championships started in Chicago this week HEAD squash thought it was the perfect time to catch up with the game’s greatest ever men’s world champion, the immortal Jansher Khan.

On the 25^th anniversary of his eighth and final world title triumph, which came in Karachi in 1996, Jansher who won the majority of these global titles with the iconic HEAD Pyramid Power 120 racket in his hand, has revealed his pride in still holding the record for the most world tit

Novak Djokovic has once again proved he is not just the best tennis player in the world, but a real history man. HEAD’s leading racket ambassador has written another massive piece of tennis history with his victory at Wimbledon on Sunday – and he has completed three steps out of five towards the first ever men’s Golden Slam.