Western Europe - Alpine Skiing

Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games. The 24-year-old, who won the bronze in Thursday's downhill, won in a time of 1min 19.98sec with Germany's Martin ...

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. The American Olympic downhill champion spun off about a quarter of ...

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 ...

Austria's Hans Grugger and Switzerland's Fabienne Suter set the early pace in the men's and women's downhill training on Tuesday ahead of the World Cup finale. American ski queen Lindsey Vonn and Switzerland's Didier Cuche will be the ones to beat in ...

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 ...

Germany's Maria Riesch wins slalom for 2nd Olympic gold medal; Vonn skis out in 1st runMaria Riesch of Germany won the slalom title for her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics on Friday, as Lindsey Vonn skied out chasing her second ...

Germany's Maria Riesch is in prime position to add Olympic slalom gold to her super-combined title after heading the first leg on Friday which saw American star Lindsey Vonn crash out. Riesch clocked 50.75 seconds, 0.40sec ahead of world slalom silver medallist ...

With fog slowing the first-run leaders, Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg wins giant slalomUnheralded Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany has taken a surprise victory in the Olympic giant slalom, with the first-run leaders slowed by dense fog. Rebensburg, who had never won a major race, ...

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 ...

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Topic: Western Europe

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold

Vonn crashes out of giant slalom

Janka wins downhill to lead World Cup standings

Grugger, Suter set the early pace

Grugger, Suter set the pace in dowhhill ski training

Swiss Cuche wins World Cup downhill title

Maria Riesch wins gold in Olympic slalom

Riesch eyes slalom gold as Vonn bombs

Rebensburg takes surprise giant slalom gold

Ice hockey clash of titans overshadows Olympic medals

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