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Olympic Men's Giant Slalom

The Olympic Men's Giant Slalom is one of the more popular of all Winter Olympic events. Currently, the best Giant Slalom athletes are those representing the countries of Switzerland , Austria , Italy , the United States , Canada , Finland and ...

Canada, USA in dream ice hockey Olympic final

Canada sneaked past Slovakia while the United States crushed Finland to set up a blockbuster Olympic ice-hockey final as the host nation surged to the top of the medal table with two more gold.At the hockey arena, nerves were frayed when Canada ...

Miller shines on hockey-fueled 'Super Sunday'

American dominance of the Olympic pistes continued with Bode Miller surging to the men's super-combined gold on a hockey-fueled Sunday that sees Canada's superstar team take on arch-rival the United States.Miller came home ahead of Croatian Ivica Kostelic and Silvan Zurbriggen of ...
Lindsey Vonn lived up to her reputation as the best downhill skier in the world by claiming the women's Olympic title as Shaun White and Shani Davis made it a golden day to remember for the United States.Vonn delivered organisers some relief ...

Germany's Riesch wins womens' world slalom

Maria Riesch handed Germany its second gold of the World Ski Championships when she won the women's slalom here on Saturday.Riesch produced a storming second run to clock a combined total of 1min 51.80 to finish 0.77sec ahead of Czech Sarka Zahrobska, ...

Hoelz wins women's giant ski slalom

Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl won the women's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships here Thursday ahead of Slovenia's Tina Maze and Tanja Poutiainen of Finland. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition

Hoelzl wins women's giant ski slalom

Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl won the women's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships here Thursday ahead of Slovenia's Tina Maze and Tanja Poutiainen of Finland. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition

Zettel wins women's giant ski slalom

Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl won the women's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships here Thursday ahead of Slovenia's Tina Maze and Tanja Poutiainen of Finland. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition