Topic: Sweden

Canada and Russia renew their long-standing rivalry in a heavyweight Olympic quarter-final ice hockey battle on Wednesday as Lindsey Vonn looks to overcome her alpine jinx in the giant slalom. With just five days of action left, the United States and Germany ...

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 ...
Olympic Alpine race organizers to make women's course safer after downhill marred by crashesThe 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. "We will try to ...

Aubert wins skiing World Cup women's slalom

France's Sandrine Aubert opened her alpine skiing World Cup account with victory in the women's slalom here on Saturday in front of Sweden's Frida Hansdotter and Nicole Hosp of Austria. American Lindsey Vonn, who leads the race for the overall title, posted ...
Women's downhill race at World Championships rescheduled for Monday after heavy snowfallThe women's downhill at the World Championships was postponed Sunday and rescheduled for Monday after up to 10 inches of snow fell on the Rhone-Alpes course. Officials initially delayed the start ...

Swiss skier Gisin wins Cortina downhill

Dominique Gisin of Switzerland won the women's World Cup downhill here on Saturday ahead of American Lindsey Vonn and Anja Paerson of Sweden. Gisin, who also won last week's downhill at Zauchensee, finished in 1min 16.98sec, 0.15sec ahead of Vonn with Paerson ...

Skier Heel leaves his imprint at Val Gardena

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 ...