Topic: Alpine Skiing

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

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

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 ...
Sensational season: Vonn ignores injuries for 33rd World Cup win, 3rd straight overall titleLindsey Vonn finished with a fitting flourish, the perfect way to cap a nearly perfect season, one chock full of victories, medals, trophies — and injuries. Now the American ...

Three down, three to go for US star Vonn

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 wins third successive World Cup

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 ...

Leader Janka steps closer to ski trophy

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 ...

Austria season a near miss, not failure says Raich

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 ...
Lindsey Vonn wins super-combined title after 2 events; 3rd canceled because of weatherLindsey Vonn may have crashed in the giant slalom Thursday, but she got some good news after the race. The International Skiing Federation confirmed Vonn as the super-combined World Cup ...

Vonn title bid hit by crash

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 ...

Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

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. The American Olympic downhill champion spun off about a quarter of ...
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