Topic: Didier Cuche
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Didier Cuche, one of the most successful skiers of his generation, will take what could be his last shot at a downhill gold in a major championships on Saturday.Cuche, 36, has won the last two World Cup downhills, ...
Italy's Christof Innerhofer is the name to beat in the men's downhill at the world championships on Saturday after posting the fastest time in training and having already tamed the Kandahar course.Innerhofer scooped his first major title when he won super-G gold ...
Defending world super-G champion Didier Cuche plans to ruin World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic's 'holiday' when the men's competition starts Wednesday at the World Ski Championships.The Swiss veteran scooped super-G gold when the world championships were held in Val d'Isere two years ...
Swiss veteran Didier Cuche boosted his world championship title hopes after claiming a second consecutive downhill victory on the World Cup here at Chamonix on Saturday.Italian Dominik Paris finished second with Austrian Klaus Kroll in third.At 36 years old, Cuche became the ...
Swiss Didier Cuche is being tipped to add another prestigious line to his honours list when the men's World Cup makes a long-awaited return to the 'Verte des Houches' in Chamonix this weeekend.Cuche went top of the World Cup downhill standings on ...
Didier Cuche rolled back the years to claim a fourth Kitzbuehel downhill title on Saturday, using all his experience to master what is considered the toughest course on the circuit.The 36-year-old Swiss speed specialist clocked 1min 57.72sec to finish a massive 0.98sec ...
Swiss veteran Didier Cuche topped Thursday's training for the World Cup downhill, which was marred by a horrific crash by Hans Grugger that left the Austrian needing emergency surgery on head injuries.Cuche clocked 2min 01.12sec down the testing 3.3-kilometre-long Streif course, Italian ...
The Hahnenkamm, or rooster's comb, is to alpine ski racing what Wembley is to football, Madison Square Garden to boxing, and the Berlin Olympic stadium to athletics.An iconic venue for the sport, but also an unforgiving Austrian mountain throwing up the toughest ...
Didier Cuche was born on August 16th, 1974 in Les Bugnenets , Switzerland . Didier Cuche has won a World Cup Event in each of the following seasons. Once he reached the Olympics in 2002 , Cuche would compete in the Giant ...
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 Kandahar ...