Topic: Italy
Italy's Giuliano Razzoli wins Olympic gold in men's slalom; Bode Miller skis out in 8 seconds Giuliano Razzoli won the Olympic slalom Saturday and gave Italy its first Alpine gold medal of the Vancouver Games.Razzoli was the first-leg leader and had a ...
Giuliano Razzoli of 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 ...
Olympic Alpine race organizers to make women's course safer after downhill marred by crashes The final jump on the women's Olympic Alpine ski course will be changed for safety reasons after a series of crashes marred Wednesday's downhill race." Sweden's Anja Paerson, ...
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 ...
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 himself as favorite for February's Vancouver Olympics.Compatriot Manfred Pranger led after the first run ...
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 Davide Simoncelli came second but Manfred Moelgg, who had made up an Italian ...
VAL GARDENA, Italy (Reuters) - Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal powered to his first win of the season in a close super-G race at the Saslong Classic on Friday.Last season's World Cup overall and super-G champion had managed only two third places so ...
When a ski racer safely negotiates a deliberately treacherous slope and shudders to a halt in the finish area, with one television cameraman to avoid, there is an immediate automatic reaction.No matter what time has been recorded, the skier in question will ...
Italy's Cristof Innerhofer won the men's World Cup downhill event here on Sunday ahead of the Austrian duo of Klaus Kroll and Michael Walchhofer.The 24-year-old Innerhofer, wearing bib number one, came down the icy and rutted course in 2minutes 3.55 seconds, 0.32sec ...
Italy's Werner Heel won the men's super-G here on Friday for his second World Cup success.Heel timed one minute 35.04 seconds to see off Switzerland's Didier Defago and Patrik Jaerbyn of Sweden by .43 and .45s respectively to add this to his ...
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