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Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

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.Vonn, who has already won the season's downhill and super-G titles, could ...

Janka wins downhill to lead World Cup standings

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Switzerland's Carlo Janka won the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Wednesday to go back to the top of the overall World Cup standings.Janka, the Olympic giant slalom champion, beat Austria's Mario Scheiber by 0.02 seconds to set off a ...

Razzoli emulates mighty Tomba

WHISTLER (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.Tomba, joining the ecstatic winner in the finish ...

Vonn will race slalom: coach

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," Jim Tracy told Reuters when asked ...

Slaloms bode well for more Miller medals

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 ...

Fischbacher nets super-G gold

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.Slovenia's Tina Maze, a giant slalom silver medalist at last year's world championships, then produced a stunning ...

Men's downhill moved to Monday

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.Warm temperatures and rain have led to soft ...

Vonn welcomes extra day off

WHISTLER (Reuters) - Olympic downhill favorite Lindsey Vonn welcomed the "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 ...

Snow and rain force training cancellations

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 ...

Vonn a doubt for Vancouver Games

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.Vonn said she had suffered an "excruciatingly painful" ...
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