Ted Ligety on the 2026 Olympic Ski Racing; the Carving Renaissance; & His New Carving Skis
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ted Ligety is back to talk about the ‘26 Olympic games, and the performances of Breezy Johnson, Lindsey Vonn, Federica Brignone, Mikaela Shiffrin, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, Ryan Cochran-Siegel, Franjo von Allmen, and what specific attribute makes Marco Odermatt such an all-time great. Then, we talk about the ‘carving renaissance’ we are currently experiencing, and Ted walks us through the new DPS Pisteworks skis he’s been developing.
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DPS Pisteworks Series (1:13:25)
FIS Width Regulations (1:22:19)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm |
| 0:07.5 | Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:13.2 | blisterreview.com and on our YouTube channels, Blister Review and Blister Studios. |
| 0:28.6 | Ted Liggety was in Italy for these Olympic Games, and yes, that was him, providing commentary from the start gate of all of the men's alpine ski races. And in addition to being a two-time |
| 0:36.2 | Olympic gold medalist himself and a five-time world champion, |
| 0:40.3 | Ted is just one of our favorite people to talk about skiing and ski racing with, |
| 0:46.3 | and I really wanted to get his broader thoughts about the men's and women's ski races from these past games. |
| 0:52.3 | Now, Ted and I also discuss what sort of feels like a |
| 0:56.8 | carving renaissance that we seem to be experiencing at the moment. And at the end, Ted and I talk |
| 1:02.9 | about his series of new carving skis, the DPS pieceworks 79, 89, and 94. As most of you know, Ted is the best, and we are going to be |
| 1:15.5 | linking in the show notes of this episode all of the past podcast conversations that we've |
| 1:21.8 | recorded with Ted for more than a decade now, because like this conversation here today, there is some real gold |
| 1:30.1 | in all of those prior conversations too. |
| 1:33.9 | This episode is presented by Palisades Tahoe, where, by the time you are hearing this |
| 1:40.4 | on Monday morning, I'm going to be, along with our Blister Summit director, Kristen Sinot, |
| 1:47.0 | our managing editor, Luke Kappa, and the strikingly handsome Justin Bob. So we are going to be |
| 1:54.1 | on snow at Palisades this coming week. Can't wait to link up with some of our blister members, lots of our friends in the |
| 2:02.8 | area, and we're going to be doing what we do, which is reviewing some skis and snowboards |
| 2:08.7 | and getting to poke around that place. So if it's been a minute since you've been to Palisades, |
| 2:15.1 | well, you can check it all out and learn more about it at palisades tahoe.com. And yeah, get yourself out there this spring. All right, a couple |
| 2:24.2 | blister plus notes yesterday skiing Crested Bute. I was skiing by myself finishing out the |
| 2:30.8 | afternoon, hopped on a chairlift, and ended up talking with a student at |
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