Topic: Western Europe

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

SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won an Alpine ski giant slalom race on Friday to take the World Cup lead in the discipline.Rebensburg mastered the gates of the Black Course in a combined time of two minutes 15.22 ...

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

Ted Ligety won the men's world giant slalom title on Friday with France's Cyprien Richard taking silver and Philipp Schoerghofer of Austria claiming bronze.Ligety's combined winning time after the two runs was 2min 10.56sec, to claim his second major title, while Richard ...

Slovenia's Tina Maze claimed her first major title with gold in Thursday's giant slalom and admitted her relief after finally breaking her run of four silver medals.Maze's victory gave her country their first gold at a world ski championships as Italy's Federica ...

France won team gold at the world ski championships on Wednesday with Austria taking silver and Sweden the bronze.France won the final by virtue of the fastest overall time from their four racers after finishing 2-2 against Austria, while Sweden took the ...

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 ...

Spain had double reason to celebrate at the prestigious Laureus awards here on Monday as world tennis number one Rafael Nadal was voted sportsman of the year and the Spanish football team's World Cup win netted them the team of the year.American ...