Alpine Skiing

US women's ski coach Jim Tracy leaves after 2 successful seasons and strong Olympics

U.S. women's ski coach Jim Tracy stepped down on Friday, less than five weeks after guiding the team to a strong showing at the Vancouver Olympics. He did not give a reason, but said in a statement that he appreciated being part of ...

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games. The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin Braxenthaler (1:20.63) taking silver and Japan's Taiki Morii (1:20.98 ...

Vonn ignores injuries for 33rd World Cup win, 3rd straight overall title Lindsey Vonn finished with a fitting flourish, the perfect way to cap a nearly perfect season, one chock full of victories, medals, trophies and injuries.A day after bruising her right knee in a crash, and skiing with her broken right pinkie protected by a green molded cast ...

After winning her third straight World Cup title on Friday, US star Lindsey Vonn said she is a long way from matching the record six won by Austria's Annemarie Moser-Proell.Having won downhill gold and Super-G bronze at last month's Winter Olympics, Vonn won the Super-G race here on Friday to be crowned the overall World Cup champion ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn of the United States skied through more pain on Friday to win the women's overall World Cup title for the third year running.Vonn ignored a bruised right knee after crashing in Thursday's giant slalom to win the final super-G and make sure of the overall title with one race left in the ...

Switzerland's Carlo Janka took one step closer to the overall World Cup season's title on Friday by setting the fastest time on the first run of the men's giant slalom.The 23-year-old is battling Austria's Benjamin Raich for the Crystal Globe and is top of the World Cup standings on 1097 points with slalom-specialist Raich second ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Austria have failed to win a downhill this season, came away from the Vancouver without a single medal in men's Alpine skiing yet could still end up with the overall world champion thanks to Benjamin Raich.Raich finished sixth in Thursday's super-G to reduce the gap between himself and leader Carlo Janka to 38 points ...

Lindsey Vonn wins super-combined title after 2 events; 3rd canceled because of weather Lindsey Vonn may have crashed in the giant slalom Thursday, but she got some good news after the race.Vonn sealed the super-combined title when the third race of the season in the event was canceled because of bad weather last week in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.That left ...

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn's bid for a third successive overall World Cup title was hit when she crashed out of the giant slalom on Thursday and Maria Riesch kept her outside hopes alive.Double Olympic champion Riesch, the only skier who can catch Vonn, finished third to follow her win in the previous day's downhill.The U ...

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn, on the brink of clinching her third successive overall World Cup title, crashed in the first leg of the season's final giant slalom on Thursday.Vonn, who has already won the season's downhill and super-G titles, could still win the overall crown later on Thursday if Germany's Maria Riesch, the only skier ...

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Jim Tracy leaves as US women's ski coach

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

Lindsey Vonn clinches 3rd World Cup overall title

Three down, three to go for US star Vonn

Vonn wins third successive World Cup

Leader Janka steps closer to ski trophy

Austria season a near miss, not failure says Raich

Vonn wins super-combined title after 2 events

Vonn title bid hit by crash

Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

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