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Austrian team aims for fifth medal

2011-02-14T18:30:38Z

Austria will be aiming for both their fifth medal of the world ski championships and to defend their crown on Wednesday when the team event takes place after a four-year hiatus.

As golden-girl Elisabth Goergl has won both the women's super-G and downhill titles, Anna Fenninger won gold in the super combined and World Cup slalom win to hand Austria a welcome one-two on the punishing Bellevarde piste here Sunday.

Hirscher was fourth in the first run won by Italy's Manfred Moelgg and produced a near flawless displ...

Leader Janka steps closer to ski trophy

2010-03-12T02:22:28Z

Switzerland's Carlo Janka took one step closer to the overall World Cup season's title on Friday by setting the fastest time on the first run of the men's giant slalom.

The 23-year-old is battling Austria's Benjamin Raich for the Crystal Globe and is top of the World Cup ...

Austria season a near miss, not failure says Raich

2010-03-11T08:30:54Z

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 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 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 two runs, 0.16sec ahead of Croatia's Ivica Kostelic ...

Janka in giant slalom pole as Miller bombs

2010-04-16T06:59:15Z

American Bode Miller will not add a giant slalom podium to his three-medal Olympic haul after he crashed out on the first leg of the event on Tuesday, with Swiss all-rounder Carlo Janka in pole position.

Janka, the defending world giant slalom champion, clocked the fastest time of 1min 17.27sec down the Dave Murray course ...

Raich ready to repeat Turin gold rush

2010-04-16T07:04:12Z

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.

"I hope to replicate my performances of four years ago," the reigning Olympic slalom and giant sl...

German Neureuther slaloms to maiden World Cup win

2010-04-16T07:23:11Z

Germany's Felix Neureuther notched up a timely maiden World Cup victory ahead of next month's Winter Olympics when he won the men's slalom race here on Sunday.

Neureuther, a six-time World Cup podium finisher who had clocked the third-fastest time in the first leg, timed a combined 1min 37.35sec over the two runs.<...

Herbst flies to second slalom win

2010-04-16T08:13:24Z

ALTA BADIA, Italy (Reuters) - Austria's Reinfried Herbst racked up his second World Cup slalom win in two races on the Gran Risa course on Monday to install himse...

With Miller sidelined, Ligety leads US men in GS

2010-04-16T08:37:23Z

With Miller out, Ligety claims 10th place in World Cup giant slalom after blazing 2nd run

Ted Ligety posted a blazing second run on Sunday to grab 10th place in a World Cup giant slalom in the French Alps that Bode Miller skipped to protect an ankl...

Hirscher leads Austria to Val d'Isere cleansweep

2010-04-16T08:26:06Z

Hirscher's maiden win on the World Cup circuit followed that of team-mates Benjamin Raich and Michael Walchhofer in the super-combined and super-G also held on the Face de Bellevarde piste on Friday and Saturday respectively.

The performance by the Austrian team dispelled worries that it might suffer another nightmare weekend courtesy of their VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Newcomer Marcel Hirscher completed an Austrian clean sweep in Val d'Isere by securing his maiden World Cup win in the giant slalom on Sunday.

The 20-year-old Hirscher's victory meant Austrians claimed all three weekend events after wins by Austria continued their domination of the World Cup events here when Michael Walchhofer overcame poor weather conditions to claim victory in the super-G on Saturday.

Veteran Walchhofer, who was following up his countryman Benjamin Raich's win on Friday...

Raich stops Janka run in super-combined

2010-04-16T08:28:41Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Experienced Austrian Benjamin Raich stopped the stunning run of Swiss sensation Carlo Janka by coolly winning a World Cup ...

Austria strike back with super-combined treble

2010-04-16T08:28:41Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austria, often outclassed by Alpine rivals Switzerland since the northern winter began, struck back by placing three men on the podium of a World Cup super-combined event on Friday.

The trad...

Raich wins super-combined ski event, Janka bombs

2010-04-16T08:29:01Z

Benjamin Raich struck a blow back for Austria in winning the World Cup super-combined event here on Friday, his 35th victory on the international ski circuit.

All the talk before this three-day event, which also sees the racers competing in the super-G on Saturday and giant slalom on Sunday, had been of Benjamin Raich struck a blow back for Austria in winning the World Cup super-combined event here on Friday, his 35th victory on the international ski circuit.

All the talk before this three-day event, which also sees the racers competing in the super-G on Saturday and giant slalom on Sunday, had been of Svindal wins World Cup overall when Raich straddles gate

Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway clinched his second overall World Cup title by a record-low two-point margin on Saturday, winning when Benjamin Raich of Austria straddled a gate in the opening run...

Cuche wins giant ski slalom

2010-04-16T14:12:25Z

Didier Cuche captured the men's World Cup giant slalom here on Saturday, the Swiss skier coming in ahead of Austrian duo Stephan Goergl and Benjamin Raich.

Cuche, second in the giant slalom at Solden, opened his World Cup account for the season in a time of 2min 49.57sec, with Goergl and Raich .66s and .89s a...

Pranger saves Austrian blushes in men's slalom

2010-04-16T17:10:40Z

Austrian Manfred Pranger led after the first run of the men's slalom at the World Ski Championships here on Sunday as a raft of top contenders crashed out on the testing Bellevarde piste.

Pranger negotiated the 64 gates down the 591-metre-long course in 52.49sec, four-hundredths ahead of Austria-based Swede Johan Brole...

Kostelic ends two-year wait for World Cup win

2010-04-16T13:44:16Z

Ivica Kostelic of Croatia won the men's World Cup slalom here on Monday ahead of Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange and Benjamin Raich of Austria.

Kostelic, picking up his ninth career win on alpine skiing's elite circuit and his first in two years, dominated the first run ahea...

Austria's Raich edges Ligety for World Cup victory

2010-04-16T13:56:22Z

Olympic champion Benjamin Raich of Austria edged American Ted Ligety by .01 of a second Sunday to win an Alpine Ski World Cup men's giant slalom race.

Raich won with a combined two-run time of 2min 24.61secs with Ligety just off the pace and Norwegian Aksel Lund S...

Austria's Raich edges Ligety for World Cup skiing victory

2010-04-16T13:56:22Z

Olympic champion Benjamin Raich of Austria edged American Ted Ligety by .01 of a second Sunday to win an Alpine Ski World Cup men's giant slalom race.

Raich won with a combined two-run time of 2min 24.61secs with Ligety just off the pace and Norwegian Aksel Lund S...

Raich wins giant slalom title at Birds of Prey

2010-04-16T13:56:28Z

Austria's Raich edges Ligety of the United States by 0.01 seconds to win giant slalom

Benjamin Raich of Austria captured a World Cup giant slalom title Sunday, edging Ted Ligety of the United States by 0.01 seconds.

Raich won in a combined time o...

Alpine Skiing - Men's Slalom - Day 16

2010-03-27T04:50:55Z

WHISTLER, BC - FEBRUARY 27: Benjamin Raich of Austria reacts after the Men's Slalom second run on day 16 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Whistler Creekside on...

Vancouver Olympics Alpine Skiing

2010-03-27T20:09:50Z

Benjamin Raich of Austria walks past the finish area after completing training for the Men's Downhill, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

Vancouver Olympics Ski Austria Prospects

2010-03-27T23:06:32Z

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 file photo, Austrian President Heinz Fischer talks to Austrian alpine skiers Benjamin Raich, Reinfried Herbst, Michael Walchhofer, Manfred Pranger and <...

Switzerland Alpine Skiing World Cup

2010-03-28T18:12:02Z

Austria's Benjamin Raich speeds down the course to take the sixth place during the first run in men's World Cup giant slalom skiing competition in Adelboden, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)

CROATIA ALPINE SKIING WORLD CUP

2010-03-28T19:59:13Z

Austria's Benjamin Raich speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski, Men's World Cup Slalom race, in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)