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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 World Cup downhills, ...
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 American, who won in the discipline on Friday in Cortina, came ...
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 slopes.He was six seconds slower ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
