Central Europe - Alpine Skiing

Flamboyant skier Bode Miller and rock-steady ice hockey goaltender Ryan Miller allowed the United States to seize control of Super Sunday at the Winter Olympics.On the Whistler slopes, Miller came home ahead of Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zurbriggen of Switzerland in ...

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.The puck dropped with Russia beating the Czech Republic 4-2 as Evgeni Malkin scored two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Topic: Central Europe

US stuns Canada in Olympic ice-hockey clash

Miller and Miller shine as US dominate Super Sunday

Miller shines on hockey-fueled 'Super Sunday'

Fischbacher takes Olympic super-G gold

Vonn's bronze puts US skiers in seventh heaven

Raich ready to repeat Turin gold rush

Men hold downhill training; fog halts women's runs

As Ligety, Mancuso proved, upsets happen in skiing

Austria has tough task living up to Wunderteam tag

Vonn snaps up Cortina super-G

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