The 2023 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships concluded today in Courchevel-Meribel, France after two weeks of competition across 13 events.

This was the 47th edition of the championships since 1931, now held in off-numbered years. This was also the fifth time that France has hosted the event, after Chamonix (1937 & 1962), Grenoble (1968), and Val d'Isere (2009).

Competition events included men's and women's downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Alpine combined, parallel giant slalom races, as well as a combined mixed team parallel.

Team Norway topped the overall medal table with nine, but Team Switzerland had three gold, led by star Marco Odermatt's two. Two other standout highlights of the championships were Team USA's Mikaela Shiffrin's three-medal performance, giving her a career 14 - second in history, as well as the first-ever winter sports championship medal for Team Greece (!) with AJ Ginnis' silver in the men's slalom.

Congratulations to all the 2023 champions! A quick photo gallery of the winners is below, and complete results can be found at fis-ski.com and courchevelmeribal2023.

The 2023 World Athletics Cross-Country Championships concluded in Bathurst, Australia after a full day of competition for senior and junior athletes.

Originally scheduled for 2021 and delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this was the 44th edition of the championships, and the first since 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark. This was also only the third time the event has been held in the southern hemisphere, after 1988 in Auckland, New Zealand and 1996 in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

(And, correct cross-country running is not an Olympic event - it should be! - though it is common for long-distance track and road runners to cross-compete in the discipline.)

Team Kenya took home four senior titles, including both team titles for men and women. Team Ethiopia tied the Kenyans for five overall senior medals.

Congratulations to all the winners! A quick photo gallery of the senior champions is below. Complete results and news can be found online at worldathletics.org.

Dafne Schippers takes a holiday pic.

Mary Kom poses happily.

Tomas Rak witnesses some action.

Amber Johill Takes us to a warm place.

Peter Sagan sight-sees Medellin.

Insider: Photographer Mykola Synelnykov showcases the ruined training facilities Ukrainian athletes face at home due to the Russian invasion.

Olympic triple jumper Olha Saladukha makes a parallel to Berlin 1936 regarding the IOC's plans for Russian participation at Paris 2024.

Long hurdler Femke Bol aims for a 'new level in 2023'; she's on her way with fast start indoors over 400m.

Olympic runners Desiree Linden and Kara Goucher continue their Nobody Asked Us podcast with an episode previewing their autobiographies.

London 2012 'blade runner' track star Oscar Pistorius doesn't impress his would-be father-in-law ahead of a possible parole from prison.

Olympic steeplechaser Colleen Quigley now is a certified triathlete after a Tritonman win.

"I'm completely alright now." Badminton star P.V. Sindhu is back from injury and on the 2023 season trail.

Archer Steve Wiljer's form may look "a little uncontrolled", but it's gotten him success indoors and out.

Can rising gymnast Tonya Paulsson reach her goal of a World Championship all-around final?

Did you catch tennis legend Serena Williams in two commercials during the Super Bowl?

Biathlon legends Andrea Henkel, Kati Wilhelm, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, and Sven Fischer honored by the IBU for their 'exceptional performances and achievements over their careers'.

Team USA's Alpine skiing worlds victory in the team parallel event was "extra sweet" after a frustrating Beijing 2022 fourth-place finish.

World champion boxers Busenaz Surmeneli and Sennur Demir join earthquake relief efforts in their native Turkey.

And, the team handball community mourns the passing of Team Turkey's Cemal Kutahya, who passed away in the earthquake disaster.

Athens 2004 Olympian and basketball star Allen Iverson makes the GQ Sports Style Hall of Fame.

Tokyo 2020 rower Husein Alireza is the first Saudi athlete to be honored with recognition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

Montreal 1976 modern pentathlete Dr. Keith McCormick is now a published author focused on helping to fight osteoporosis.

Snowboarding star Zoi Sadowski-Synnott wins the Supreme Halberg Award as New Zealand's top athlete in 2022.

Does soccer superstar and multi-Olympian Neymar gives his support to recently LGBTQ-out fellow international player Jakub Jankto?

Team Canada's leading women's soccer players are "angry, frustrated, appalled, and heartbroken" on the state of the relationship with Canada Soccer.

​Who won the IJF Judo Awards 2022?

Olympic figure skater Tiffany Scott Pryor goes back to the ice to teach preschoolers the sport.

Uruguayan Olympic sailor Felix Sienra had been the world's oldest living Olympian, until his recent passing in late January.

Trampolinist Hikaru Mori rebounded from a disappointing Tokyo 2020 with world championship success, and now contemplates Paris 2024: "...that's something to think about".

Olympics.com: Equestrian athletes Mary Hanna, Abdelkebir Ouaddar, Phillip Dutton, and sport shooter Nino Salukvadze are 'ageless Olympians' eyeing Paris 2024.

Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel sits with actress Danai Gurira to talk #LoveOurGirls, her experience in swimming, and more.

How does Team Ireland rugby sevens star Billy Dardis recover from competition and training? Dr. Pete Tierney has answers.

Surfing's 'next big thing', Molly Picklum, gets used to her raised profile while 'taking life in stride'.

Dear Rider, (2021)
A Quick Film Review

'Snurfing', or surfing on snow, was a pastime concocted in the 1960s with a board similar to surfing with no binding. It took a young Jake Burton, with inspiration also from skateboarding, to develop the first proper snowboard - the 'Burton snowboard'.

And impassioned with the idea of the opportunity of snowboarding as a sport, Burton persisted. "Surfing on snow: in the back of my mind, I always knew it could be a sport."

Dear Rider, a 2021 documentary from Red Bull Media and HBO Sports that traces Burton's dogged commitment also inherently profiles the growth of the sport itself. I finally - finally! - sat down to watch it.

Burton's passion, plus snowboarding's definitive youth appeal, eventually drove the sport to enough prominence to debut as an Olympic sport at Nagano 1998. And from there, snowboarding exploded - growing to 11 medals events at Beijing 2022 from Nagano's initial four.

Dear Rider, takes us through that growth, with a special focus on the sport's growing pains - alternatively viewed as the "worst new sport" or "the antithesis of skiing" by the traditional winter sports powers that were. And a driving east coast racing vs west coast freestyle rivalry that further defined the sport.

Burton was there through it all, and always understanding that the value and uniqueness of snowboarding lay in the individuality of the athletes. With boarding equipment customizable to reflect the "cultural commentary" of snowboarders as artists. Burton reinforced that this was - is - "not a sport your parents or some coach shoved down your throat".

Dear Rider, is a "love letter" to a driving force of the sport. His legacy - evident through the commentary provided by Olympic stars Shaun White, Kelly Clark, Jamie Anderson, Scotty James, Pat Burgener, and more - is well worth a watch.

​Check out more Games and Rings' Olympic sports-related media reviews tagged under A Quick Review.