Topic: Lindsey Vonn

Lindsey Vonn wins women's World Cup downhill race at Val d'Isere, closes gap on Maria RieschAmerican skier Lindsey Vonn won her first downhill race of the season at Val d'Isere on Saturday to close the gap on overall World Cup leader Maria ...

Vonn, Riesch rivalry heats up at Lake Louise

Lindsey Vonn is by no means ready to surrender her title as the queen of Alpine skiing but her self-described "love affair" with Lake Louise was certainly put to the test.Three-time World Cup overall champion Vonn stormed back from a pair of ...
Vonn wins women's super-G World Cup race at Lake Louise to end string of second-place finishesLindsey Vonn won a women's World Cup super-G race Sunday, beating Maria Riesch by more than three-quarters of a second after finishing second behind the German rival ...

Germany's Riesch wins back-to-back downhills

Germany's Maria Riesch clinched her second downhill in as many days Saturday by beating defending champ Lindsey Vonn who lost an edge after hitting a bump and almost crashed out of the race.Double Olympic champ Riesch continued her fine run of form ...
Maria Riesch wins Lake Louise downhill race; American Lindsey Vonn finishes secondMaria Riesch of Germany captured a World Cup downhill Friday, holding off best friend Lindsey Vonn and snapping her record winning streak.Riesch finished the course in 1 minute, 28.96 seconds, just ...
British ski racer Chemmy Alcott was to undergo emergency surgery for a badly broken right leg following a horrific flying crash during a downhill training run.The 28-year-old Alcott on Thursday went airborne over her first jump and never regained her balance in ...

Mancuso leads charge at Lake Louise training

Olympic silver medallist Julia Mancuso of the United States posted the fastest time in a training ahead of Friday's season-opening World Cup downhill.Mancuso's time of 1min 30.19secs on Wednesday was 0.16secs faster than Slovenia's Tina Maze, while Anna Fenninger of Austria was ...
Lindsey Vonn has had her fair share of mishaps and misadventures on a mountain very close to home.. So much so the three-time overall World Cup champion from nearby Vail almost considers her eighth-place finish in Sunday's World Cup slalom a success.. ...

Ski queen Vonn seeks to snap Aspen drought

Lindsey Vonn, the undisputed queen of Alpine skiing for the past three seasons, has been the victim of a curse in Aspen, the lone stop for the ladies on the World Cup tour in the US.With no podium to her credit in ...
Maria Riesch takes the lead after 1st run of season-opening World Cup slalom; Vonn in 6thMaria Riesch of Germany took the lead after the first run Saturday of the World Cup slalom race on the Levi Black course in Finland.The Olympic slalom ...