Topic: United States

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn won a women's alpine skiing World Cup downhill Saturday.France's Marie Marchand-Arvier was second and Austria's Elisabeth Goergl was third.124099367&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Sports News

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France's Jean-Baptiste Grange won the men's slalom at the Alpine ski world championships on Sunday.Sweden's Jens Byggmark won the silver medal and Italy's Manfred Moelgg the bronze.92926911&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Sports News

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - France won the team event at the alpine skiing world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Wednesday.Austria won the silver medal and Sweden the bronze.(Reporting by Manuele Lang; Editing by James Illingworth)92558848&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report Sports News

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men's super combined at the world skiing championships on Monday.Christof Innerhofer of Italy was second and compatriot Peter Fill was third.(Editing by Justin Palmer)92317099&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report ...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn and her great rival Maria Riesch have won the last 15 competitive downhill races between them but their dominance could end at the world championships on Sunday.The American and the German have had fitness problems in ...

Reigning Olympic champions Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn were among 19 Americans named Wednesday to the US squad for the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety, 2006 Olympic champions, are also part of a US lineup for the biennial ...

The supreme performers in the 28th Alpine World Cup series were Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway, who took the men's overall title ahead of Marc Girardelli, the five-time champion from Luxembourg, and the veteran from Switzerland, Vreni Schneider, who recaptured the women's ...

The IPC Disabled Alpine Skiing World Cup is an annual circuit of elite disabled alpine skiing competitions, regulated by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). Held at ski areas across Europe , North America , and East ...

The Olympic Men's Slalom is a downhill Olympic Alpine skiing event that takes place in two heats on the same day and involves skiing around pairs of poles (called gates) set about thirty feet apart vertically and only 6 or so feet ...

I would characterize the Alpine skiing events of the 2010 Winter Olympics as a dramatic resurgence of the U.S. program but the problem with that characterization is that the U.S. ski team has never been this good. The American heroes of the ...