Topic: Austria
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 ...
Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the men's World Cup finals downhill on Wednesday to take the lead in the overall standings in his ding dong battle for supremacy with Austria's Benjamin Raich. Mario Scheiber of Austria finished second in the downhill on the ...
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Wednesday to go back to the top of the overall World Cup standings. Janka, the Olympic giant slalom champion, beat Austria's Mario Scheiber by 0.02 seconds to set off ...
Giuliano Razzoli of Italy stormed to a convincing win in the Olympic slalom on Saturday as Austria's men's team were condemned to a medal-less Games for the first time in 74 years. Razzoli clocked a combined total of 1min 39.32sec over the ...
Giuliano Razzoli of Italy topped the timings for the shortened first leg of the Olympic slalom on Saturday ahead of Slovenian Mitja Valencic and Benjamin Raich of Austria. The Italian, whose sole World Cup victory came at Zagreb this season, timed 47.79sec, ...
Canada sneaked past Slovakia while the United States crushed Finland to set up a blockbuster Olympic ice-hockey final as the host nation surged to the top of the medal table with two more gold. With just two more days left, the Canadians ...
Germany's Maria Riesch wins slalom for 2nd Olympic gold medal; Vonn skis out in 1st runMaria Riesch of Germany won the slalom title for her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Friday, as Lindsey Vonn skied out chasing her second ...
American dominance of the Olympic pistes continued with Bode Miller surging to the men's super-combined gold on a hockey-fueled Sunday that kicked off with Russia beating the Czechs. Miller came home ahead of Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland in ...
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 ...
Olympic cover-girl Lindsey Vonn boosted the United States' dominance of the alpine events by winning bronze, the team's seventh from five events, in the women's super-G on Saturday. Vonn was everyone's favourite in the event which combines some of the technical challenges ...
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