Topic: Austria

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 ...

Vonn's bronze puts US skiers in seventh heaven

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.While Fischbacher's win eased the huge pressure on underfiring alpine giants Austria, Vonn helped stretch ...

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 ...
Austria's Michael Walchhofer leads men's downhill training; women's session halted by fog The Olympic men's downhill stands a chance of going off on schedule Saturday.One of them Stacey Cook of the US crashed after landing a jump and was flown by helicopter ...
Looking for another Ligety or Mancuso?Expect the unexpected in Olympic Alpine races This was one wager U.S. Alpine racer Julia Mancuso's ski technician was all too willing to lose, even if it involved a little public embarrassment.If Mancuso captured a gold medal ...
Austria's Olympic rivals wonder if Alpine skiing's Wunderteam can live up to past glories Austria's Alpine skiing "Austria also got two golds at the 10-event worlds held in Val d'Isere, France but so did the United States and Germany.This season, Austria's confidence ...

Vonn snaps up Cortina super-G

Favourite Lindsey Vonn raced home in the super-G race at Cortina d'Ampezzo to pocket her 29th World Cup win.Vonn, 25 and streaking towards a third consecutive overall World Cup title, won in 1min 21.74sec to see off Swiss Fabienne Suter and Swede ...
Kostelic wins World Cup slalom at Wengen for 1st victory of season; Ligety 8th for USIvica Kostelic of Croatia won a World Cup slalom Sunday for his first victory this season, dropping to his knees and kissing the snow at the finish.Kostelic ...

Schild wins Flachau slalom

Marlies Schild of Austria won Tuesday's women's slalom on home snow at Flachau to pocket her 22nd World Cup career victory, seeing off Germany's Maria Riesch and Austria's Kathrin Zettel.Schild made it 20 wins in the discipline and two for the season ...

France's Lizeroux wins Adelboden slalom

ADELBODEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Frenchman Julien Lizeroux won a World Cup slalom at Adelboden on Sunday.Marcel Hirscher (Austria) was second and Ivica Kostelic (Croatia) was third. (Reporting by Brian Homewood, Editing by Justin Palmer) Copyright 2010 Reuters US Online Report Sports News