Andorran Skiers Wrap World Cup Season with Top-15 Finishes and Domestic Victories

Andorran telemark skier Lucas Pagès concluded his World Cup season with back-to-back 15th-place finishes in the classic events at Pra Loup, France. In Friday's opener, he recorded 2:24.71, finishing 13 seconds behind Swiss winner Nicolas Michel after recovering from a gate contact, a lost pole, and a mid-run replacement. Pagès described the effort as solid despite a six-to-seven-second setback, having followed his intended line. On Sunday, he clocked 2:33.45 for another 15th, trailing Norwegian victor Jakob Benjamin Alveberg by 17 seconds on a challenging course. He had placed 20th earlier in a sprint there, rebounding from first-run errors.

Cross-country skier Gina del Rio wrapped her World Cup campaign at Lake Placid, United States, finishing 42nd Friday in the 10km classic individual with 32:38.3, 3:33.9 behind Sweden's Linn Svahn amid heavy snow that spread top-10 times by over a minute. She ended 41st Saturday in the freestyle sprint qualifiers at 3:03.77, 17.96 seconds off Svahn and over three seconds from the top-30 cutoff set by Austria's Magdalena Scherz, missing the quarterfinals. Her coach, Xabier del Val, noted strong form upon arrival and good intensity training midweek, aiming to build on recent Lahti performances. Del Rio sits third in the under-23 standings with 384 points and 26th overall.

In European Cup speed finals at Saalbach, Austria, Jordina Caminal placed 24th Friday in downhill at 1:14.27, 1.88 seconds behind Switzerland's Stefanie Grob. She led early, eighth after the first sector, but lost 1.26 seconds mid-course and recovered slightly late, finishing 35 hundredths shy of 20th. She was 36th Saturday in super-G with 1:24.41, 5.08 seconds off Austria's Nadine Fest and 0.84 behind 30th despite bib 40; she dropped 2.51 seconds in the second sector. Training saw her 27th in the second downhill run at 1:15.88, 2.67 seconds behind U.S. skier Haley Cutler, after a gate miss, and 25th in the first.

Álvar Calvo won the men's FIS slalom at Candanchú, Spain, in 1:28.08, beating Spain's Javier Fernández by 0.21 seconds and improving to 39.58 FIS points from 40.51. Pirmin Estruga took third, 0.68 seconds back; Max Black fell to fifth after leading the first run; Salva Cornella was sixth, Àlex Comellas eighth, Carlos Salinas ninth, Marc Delgado 13th, Jordi Rogel 15th, and Sergi Puigdemasa 19th. Èric Mitjana, Marcel Pérez, and Èric Guimerà missed the second run. Ainhoa Piccino placed fourth in women's, 5.02 seconds behind Spain's Martina Terren; Isabella Pérez and Carlota Comellas exited after strong first runs.

Bartumeu Gabriel finished 27th in slalom at Pozza di Fassa, Italy—part of Latvia's national championships—at 1:28.07, 2.14 seconds behind France's Theo Lopez. Àlex Rius and Xavier Cornella did not finish their first runs.