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Moe made his World Cup debut at 17[2] and days before he turned 19, competed at the 1989 World Championships in Vail, Colorado, where he placed 12th in the downhill competition. He earned his first World Cup points (top 15) in March 1990 with a 13th-place finish at Åre, Sweden, the 1990 season's final race.[3]
Of Norwegian ancestry, he quickly became a favorite with the crowd at Kvitfjell, despite edging out Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway by 0.04 seconds to take the gold medal in the downhill.[7] He then placed second in the super-G on his 24th birthday, finishing 0.09 seconds behind Markus Wasmeier of Germany.[4] His success came despite not having yet won a World Cup race, though he had attained three podiums and had raced well the previous twelve months, starting with a fifth place in the downhill at the 1993 World Championships in Japan.[8] (He won a month after the Olympics, a super-G at Whistler, Canada,[9][10] his sole World Cup victory).
Moe's best World Cup season was also in 1994, where he finished third in the super-G and eighth in both the downhill and overall standings. (Since 1971, the World Cup standings have not included the Winter Olympics or World Championships results.)
In March 1995, Moe suffered a right knee injury at Kvitfjell, on the same race course on which he won his Olympic medals thirteen months earlier.[11][12] Following his recovery, he never regained his top form,[13][14] and missed the World Championships in 1997 after a fluke thumb injury in late January required surgery.[14][15][16] He returned in March and won the downhill at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Maine.[17] Moe made his third U.S. Olympic team in 1998 at Nagano,[14] and finished eighth in the super-G and twelfth in the downhill at Hakuba. He retired from competitive ski racing that June at age 28.[18]
^ abJohnson, William Oscar (February 21, 1994). "The Son Finally Rises". Sports Illustrated. cover story: 20. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014.
