Topic: Alpine Skiing
Swiss racer Didier Cuche got the defence of his alpine World Cup downhill title off to a successful start by clinching the first downhill of the season on Saturday.The 37-year-old Cuche, who also won in Lake Louise two years ago, clocked one ...
America's giant slalom world champion Ted Ligety ended a run of frustrating podium placings here when he won the opening World Cup race in the discipline on Sunday.The 27-year-old timed 2min 22sec to beat young Frenchman Alexis Pinturault by 29hundredths of a ...
American Lindsey Vonn, edged out in last season's overall women's World Cup title by Maria Hoefl-Riesch, started the new season in style winning Saturday's opening giant slalom in Solden.The three-time former World Cup winner prevailed in a time of 2min 24.34sec on ...
SOELDEN, Austria (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn became the fifth female skier to win in all five Alpine disciplines when she claimed her maiden giant slalom victory in the opening race of the World Cup season on Saturday.The American, who had managed just ...
Canadian skier Britt Janyk, who won a World Cup downhill race in 2007 and placed sixth in last year's Olympic downhill, retired on Tuesday after 15 years on her national team.The 15-time Canadian champion won a 2007 World Cup downhill at Aspen, ...
Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Maria Riesch of Germany were crowned men's and women's World Cup overall champions Saturday as controversy shrouded the final event of the alpine ski season.Kostelic, the brother of retired four-time Olympic champion Janica, finished on 1356 points with ...
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn was heartbroken when the weather cost her a chance for a fourth successive World Cup title on Saturday but promised she would be as good as ever next season, if not better.The American saw her three-year ...
American Lindsey Vonn and German rival Maria Riesch are set to duel for alpine skiing's prestigious overall World Cup crown in the final race of the season, a giant slalom, on Saturday.Three-time World Cup champion Vonn has made a late charge in ...
LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn's hopes of a fourth successive overall World Cup title were left at the mercy of the weather after she lost the lead to Maria Riesch on Friday with one race to go.Germany's Riesch enjoys a three-point ...
American Julia Mancuso won the final women's downhill race of the season here on Wednesday as compatriot Lindsey Vonn took the overall World Cup lead from Germany's Maria Riesch with three races to go.Olympic silver medallist Mancuso finished ahead of Switzerland's Lara ...
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Croatia Alpine Skiing World Cup
Sarah Schleper, of the United States, reacts after completing an alpine ski ...AP News - -
Austria Alpine Skiing World Cup
U.S. Sarah Schleper speeds down the course during the first run ...AP News - -
Italy Alpine Skiing World Cup
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Alpine Skiing (Rémi GAILLARD)
Dangerously funny videos created and produced by Rémi GAILLARD. The ...2008-10-06 -
Alpine Ski Racing- Giant Slalom
Davide Simoncelli, Christoph Gruber, Max Blardone and Benjamin Raich competing ...2009-03-03 -
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The CAST Men's dry-land training program during the summer ...2011-07-13
