Topic: Vancouver
Didier Cuche of Switzerland wins World Cup downhill title with victory in NorwayDidier Cuche of Switzerland won his third straight World Cup downhill title with a dominant run Saturday, his first race after missing the podium in the event at the Vancouver ...
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 ...
Lindsey Vonn lived up to her reputation as the best downhill skier in the world by claiming the women's Olympic title as Shaun White and Shani Davis made it a golden day to remember for the United States. But with the Games ...
Warm weather puts men's Olympic downhill in Whistler at high risk of postponementThe men's downhill that is to open Alpine skiing at the Olympics on Saturday is at high risk of being postponed. "Right now, we need the temperature to go down," ...
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, ...
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. "I was feeling great, healthy ... and ...
Favourite Lindsey Vonn raced home in the super-G race at Cortina d'Ampezzo to pocket her 29th World Cup win. Vonn, 25 and streaking towards a third consecutive overall World Cup title, won in 1min 21.74sec to see off Swiss Fabienne Suter and ...
Austrian skier Rainer Schonfelder announced Monday he will return from a knee injury during the midweek World Cup slalom race here. Schoenfelder, a double bronze medallist from the 2006 Turin Olympics, injured his knee a month ago, but wants to assure his ...
VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn confirmed she will be the speed events' favorite at the Winter Olympics with morale-boosting results at the weekend although she conceded there is still room for improvement before the Vancouver extravaganza. The American snatched a ...
Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada won the men's World Cup downhill race here on Saturday, seeing off Austrian Mario Scheiber by 0.13sec. France's Johan Clarey and Swiss Ambrosi Hoffmann were joint third at 0.25. "My target was to make the podium, but to ...