Austria

Yannick Nézet-Séguin debuted as conductor at the Vienna New Year's Concert and programmed rediscovered women composers, including for the first time Florence Price's "Rainbow Waltz."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Standard, Die Presse

Mikaela Shiffrin won the Semmering slalom — her fifth this season — after challenging the course, drawing criticism; ÖSV and Swiss Ski declined to protest.