STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

SCRATCH THAT!!! It turns out that announcement by a Sun Valley Company official at the Boise Metro  Chamber's Regional Leadership Conference held in Sun Valley last week was premature. Any decision that Sun Valley will host the 2027 World Cup Finals will be made by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation this coming fall.  

Is your throat rested from cheering for the world’s fastest skiers in the 2025 Audi FIS World Cup Finals? Has your wrist recovered from ringing those cowbells?

Good thing, because it’s official: The Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals will return to Sun Valley in 2027.

The World Cup Finals held in late March of this year on World Cup downhill and slalom courses built just for the competition was electrifying.

Several thousand people, many of them boasting French and other accents, crowded into the base at the bottom of Greyhawk and along the course to watch the world’s top 25 male and female skiers compete in downhill, Super G, giant slalom and slalom.

And Ketchum filled with people boasting newly purchased cowboy hats and Western belt buckles as they danced at street concerts and watched horses pull skiers over jumps in a Wild West Skijoring competition.

It didn’t hurt that Lindsey Vonn celebrated her comeback from retirement with a silver medal in Super G or that Mikaela Shiffrin turned on her jets to win a gold medal in slalom following an injury that had kept her out of competition for much of the season.

The last time Sun Valley held a World Cup competition was in 1977.