Topic: 2010 Winter Olympics

Bode Miller wins super-combined for 1st Olympic gold, 3rd medal in 3 races at Vancouver Games This is the way Bode Miller always wanted it to happen, needed it to happen.In this case, it just so happens, Miller's total time from one ...

Fischbacher takes Olympic super-G gold

Austria's Andrea Fischbacher upset American speed queen Lindsay Vonn to win the women's Olympic super-G final as Korea's Lee Jung-Su and Swiss Simon Ammann grabbed their second golds of the Vancouver Games.After capturing the downhill title, Vonn crashed out in the super-combined ...

Raich ready to repeat Turin gold rush

Current World Cup leader Benjamin Raich of Austria feels ready to replicate the form at the Vancouver Olympics that saw him bag two gold medals in Turin four years ago."You never know but I'm in good shape and am looking forward to ...
Lindsey Vonn lived up to her reputation as the best downhill skier in the world by claiming the women's Olympic title as Shaun White and Shani Davis made it a golden day to remember for the United States.Vonn delivered organisers some relief ...
'Wouldn't mind racing already':2006 Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety eager to 'Shred' Ted Ligety is tired of waiting around.The 25-year-old from Park City, Utah, expressed a sentiment certainly shared by many an Alpine athlete when he tweeted Tuesday:So Ligety was supposed to ...
"All the athletes were about 90 percent sure something wasn't going to go off on time or just right," 2006 Turin Games gold medalist Ted Ligety said Saturday.The juggled lineup keeps the men's super-combined on Tuesday, and the women's downhill Lindsey Vonn's ...
Men's Olympic downhill race rescheduled for Monday because of slushy course The men's downhill event at the Vancouver Olympics has been rescheduled for Monday after officials postponed the race due to slushy conditions hours before it was scheduled to begin.The first women's ...

Men's downhill moved to Monday

WHISTLER (Reuters) - The Alpine skiing men's downhill at the Winter Olympics, scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed until Monday due to bad course conditions and poor weather, an International Ski Federation (FIS) spokeswoman said.Warm temperatures and rain have led to soft ...
Warm weather puts men's Olympic downhill in Whistler at high risk of postponement The men's downhill that is to open Alpine skiing at the Olympics on Saturday is at high risk of being postponed."Right now, we need the temperature to go down," ...
Osborne-Paradis and Canadian Alpine team brimming with medal confidence Manuel Osborne-Paradis isn't shying away from the attention and high expectations of an entire nation as the Canadian Alpine ski team prepares for the Vancouver Games.What began as a mundane, happy to be ...