Topic: Aksel Lund Svindal
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, the reigning world super-combined champion, led after the downhill portion of the Olympic event on Sunday.Svindal, who this week won super-G gold and downhill silver, clocked 1min 53.15sec down the 3,105-metre-long Dave Murray course but there are a ...
After downhill gold, Didier Defago leads downhill training for super-combined Didier Defago of Switzerland maintained his sterling form and led downhill training for Sunday's Olympic super-combined race.Defago, who won gold in the downhill to open the Alpine competition, clocked 1 minute, 36.31 ...
Miller, Weibrecht get super-G medals, lift US Alpine total to 6 Leave it to Bode Miller to bring a little trash talk to Alpine skiing.After his silver and Andrew Weibrecht's bronze behind winner Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway in Friday's super-G, Miller ...
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway on Friday added Olympic super-G gold to his downhill silver, blasting his way down a technically testing run that saw his closest rivals lose valuable seconds.It was another fantastic day's ski racing for the American team, with ...
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 ...
Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada won the men's World Cup downhill race here on Saturday, seeing off Austrian Mario Scheiber by 0.13sec.France's Johan Clarey and Swiss Ambrosi Hoffmann were joint third at 0.25. It's great ahead of the Olympics," said 25-year-old Osborne-Paradis, who ...
VAL GARDENA, Italy (Reuters) - Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal powered to his first win of the season in a close super-G race at the Saslong Classic on Friday.Last season's World Cup overall and super-G champion had managed only two third places so ...
Austria's Michael Walchhofer posted the fastest time Thursday in alpine World Cup downhill training at a frigid Birds of Prey course.The piste was in fine condition, despite temperatures of -17C at the start.Walchhofer posted a time of 1min 45.36sec to lead the ...
BEAVER CREEK, Colorado (Reuters) - Defending overall World Cup champion Aksel Lund Svindal has had a bad beginning to the ski-racing season but hopes to kick-start his Olympic gold bid at a venue which evokes strong memories.The Norwegian injured his knee in ...
Svindal wins World Cup overall when Raich straddles gateAksel Lund Svindal of Norway clinched his second overall World Cup title by a record-low two-point margin on Saturday, winning when Benjamin Raich of Austria straddled a gate in the opening run of the ...
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