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Vonn wins Lake Louise downhill

2011-12-03T13:30:17Z

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn won a women's alpine skiing World Cup downhill Saturday.

France's Marie Marchand-Arvier was second a...

Miller back in "miraculous" form

2011-12-02T13:30:23Z

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado (Reuters) - Bode Miller reckoned it took a miracle for him to surge back and win his first World Cup downhill in three years in Beave...

Miller wins first World Cup downhill in three

2011-12-02T12:30:13Z

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado (Reuters) - Bode Miller surged back to win his first World Cup downhill in over three years in Beaver Creek on Friday.

The 34-year-old American, who had only won one World Cup...

Janka wins race 10 days after heart surgery

2011-03-05T06:00:07Z

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (Reuters) - Ten days after undergoing minor heart surgery, Swiss Carlo Janka won an Alpine ski World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday.

Olympic...

Jean-Baptiste Grange wins men's slalom world title

2011-02-20T06:00:04Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France's Jean-Baptiste Grange won the men's slalom at the Alpine ski world championships on Sunday.

Sweden's Jen...

Alpine skiing: France win team event at world championships

2011-02-16T04:00:09Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France won the team event at the alpine skiing world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Wednesday.

Austria ...

Alpine skiing: Norway's Aksel Svindal wins men's super combined

2011-02-14T06:00:17Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men's super combined at the world skiing championships on Monday.

Christof Innerhofer of Italy...

Lindsey Vonn hurt by criticism

2011-02-13T08:30:08Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Olympic downhill champion Lindsey Vonn said she was hurt by the criticism she had received during the world championships and hoped that people still liked her.

Vonn, silver medalist in Sunday's women's downhill, said her complaints about condition...

Goergl stuns Vonn and Riesch again

2011-02-13T07:00:05Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Elisabeth Goergl stunned favorites Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch for the second time at the wor...

Vonn and Riesch downhill dominance could end

2011-02-12T18:30:06Z

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and her great rival Maria Riesch have won the last 15 competitive downhill races between them but their dominance could end at the world championships on Sunda...

Didier Cuche set for last shot at downhill ski gold

2011-02-11T18:30:08Z

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 CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn made up for her disappointing result in Saturday's downhill when she crowned a weekend of speed events with a second super-G victory on Sunday.

The Americ...

Alpine skiing Survivor Daniel Albrecht finally back on track

2010-11-25T11:00:14Z

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - When Daniel Albrecht suffered a horrific training accident 22 months ago, it looked as if his skiing career was over. This week, the 2007 super-combined world champion was back racing down the...

Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

2010-03-11T02:00:09Z

GARMISCH-PARTERNKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn, on the brink of clinching her third successive overall World Cup title, crashed in the first leg of the season's final giant slalom on Thursday.

The American Olympic downhill champion spun off about a quarter of the way down the Germany (Reuters) - Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Wednesday to go back to the top of the overall Reuters) - Giuliano Razzoli followed Alberto Tomba's advice to win the men's slalom on Saturday and hand Italy their first gold medal of the Olympics in the last race of the Alpine ski program.

The 25-year-old, who had clocked the fastest time in...

Vonn will race slalom: coach

2010-04-16T06:58:16Z

WHISTLER (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn is sure to compete in the final women's Alpine ski race of the Vancouver Olympics despite fracturing her little finger on Wednesday, the U.S. team's head coach said.

"One hundred percent, absolutely,"...

Slaloms bode well for more Miller medals

2010-04-16T07:01:01Z

WHISTLER (Reuters) - U.S. skier Bode Miller is rarely impressed by honors, milestones or statistics but he is close to achieving a record that even he would surely be proud of.

After his super combined gold on Sunday, the 32-year-old Miller is one podium away from becoming the first male skier to win four m...

Fischbacher nets super-G gold

2010-06-12T09:34:13Z

WHISTLER (Reuters) - Austrian Andrea Fischbacher ran away with the women's Olympic super-G crown on Saturday to ruin American Lindsey Vonn's dreams of a golden double.

The 24-year-old from Eben im Pongau took full advantage of a tricky course set by her own coaches to hand Austria a first Alpine skiing gold of the Ga...

Men's downhill moved to Monday

2010-04-16T07:07:12Z

WHISTLER (Reuters) - The Alpine skiing men's downhill at the Winter Olympics, scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed until Monday due to bad course conditions and poor weather, an International Ski Federation (FIS) spokeswoman said.

With Sunday's scheduled women's opener, the super-combined, already postponed, the opening week...

Vonn welcomes extra day off

2010-04-16T07:07:20Z

WHISTLER (Reuters) - Olympic downhill favorite Lindsey Vonn welcomed the "best possible scenario" after bad weather gave her an extra day off to rest her bruised leg on Friday.

The American, who hurt her right shin in training last week and feared she might miss the Games, has only done course inspections so far because the downhill training runs scheduled for T...

Snow and rain force training cancellations

2010-04-16T07:08:09Z

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Heavy rain washed away most of the fresh snow at Cypress Mountain and thick fog and snow forced the cancellation of the women's downhill ski training at Whistler on Thursday.

On Cypress, a mountain on the outskirts of Vancouver, heavy rain began to fall in the pre-dawn hours. With te...

Vonn a doubt for Vancouver Games

2010-04-16T07:09:09Z

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn, the overwhelming favorite for the blue riband women's downhill gold in Vancouver, said on Wednesday she was a doubtful starter for the Winter Olympics because of a shin injury.

"I was feeling great, healthy ... and now I'm questioning whether I'll be able to ski," the ...

France's Lizeroux wins Adelboden slalom

2010-04-16T07:46:26Z

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

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...

Aufdenblatten leads super-G Swiss one-two

2010-04-16T08:14:47Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Fraenzi Aufdenblatten pipped the favorites when she led a Swiss one-two in a super-G for her maiden World Cup win at the French resort of Val d'Isere on Sunday.

Aufdenblatten powered down the Oreiller-Killy course in...

Italy's Blardone wins giant slalom on home snow

2010-04-16T08:14:44Z

ALTA BADIA, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Massimiliano Blardone wowed his home crowd with a dominant victory in the World Cup giant slalom race in Alta Badia on Sunday.

His compatriot GARDENA, Italy (Reuters) - Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis caused a minor surprise when he triumphed in the men's World Cup Saslong Classic downhill on Saturday.

The 25-year-old, who won the Super-G at

Aubert crowns superb French weekend in Are

2010-04-16T08:26:09Z

ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - Sandrine Aubert retained her Are slalom crown to top a superb weekend for French women's skiing in the Swedish resort on Sunday.

Spurred on by the giant slalom victory of team mate Tessa Worley on the same Olimpia piste the previous d...

Hirscher sets pace in men's giant slalom

2010-04-16T08:26:18Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austrian newcomer Marcel Hirscher moved close to his first World Cup victory by clocking the fastest time in the first leg of a men's giant slalom on Sunday.

The 20-year-old Hirscher, who placed second in a super-combined event in...

Miller out of giant slalom with injury

2010-04-16T08:26:26Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - American Bode Miller has pulled out of Sunday's World Cup giant slalom in Val d'Isere with a sprained ankle, a U.S. ski team spokesman said.

The former overall World Cup champion...

Austria's Raich wins Val d'Isere super-combined

2010-04-16T08:28:41Z

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austria's Benjamin Raich won a men's Alpine skiing World Cup super-combined event on Friday, according to provisional results.

Fellow-Austrian Marcel Hirscher finished second with

Rivals want to stop Vonn in the Canadian Rockies

2010-06-12T13:20:59Z

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn's World Cup rivals want to spoil the American's winning record in this weekend's races in the Canadian Rockies.

Vonn has collected five World Cup downhill victories in five years here but her fellow racers say she shou...

Kucera breaks leg at super-G

2010-04-16T08:49:28Z

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's downhill world champion John Kucera is in danger of missing next year's Vancouver Olympics after breaking his leg ...

Cuche wins Soelden giant slalom

2010-04-16T09:39:23Z

SOELDEN, Austria (Reuters) - Swiss Didier Cuche won a men's World Cup giant slalom in Soelden on Sunday.

American Ted Ligety was second and Swiss Carlo Janka was third.

(Reporting by Patrick Lang; Editing...

"Dream Team" inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame

2010-04-16T11:32:36Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 1992 basketball "Dream Team," alpine skier Picabo Street and sprinter Michael Johnson headlined the list of inductees into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday.

Also included in the 2009 class...

Wikileaks Berkeley

2010-12-14T22:31:11Z

Beverly Dove holds a sign as she speaks during a city council meeting in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. The council in this famously liberal city is considering a resolution Tuesday night bestowing hero status on Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier at the center of the