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(Reuters) – Mikaela Shiffrin proclaimed her position as the world’s number one slalom specialist when she won the season’s final race in the discipline on Saturday to add a World Cup title to her world championship gold. The 18-year-old American pipped Tina Maze to the slalom crystal globe with a blistering performance on the final [...]
(FRANCE OUT) Lindsey Vonn of the USA is helicoptered off the course during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Championships Women’s SuperG on February 05, 2013 in Schladming, Austria. (February 4, 2013 – Source: Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images Europe) LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland (AP) — Lindsey Vonn had the weather on her side this time when it [...]
(Reuters) – Taking risks paid off for American Ted Ligety as he won the Kranjska Gora giant slalom for a fifth time on Saturday to secure the World Cup in the discipline. It was the triple world champion’s fourth giant slalom crystal globe and the victory on the Podkoren slope, one of his favourites on [...]
(Reuters) – Tina Maze sealed her near-perfect Alpine skiing season with the overall World Cup when she won a women’s super-combined event on Sunday. Fastest in the morning downhill section, the Slovenian secured her position in the afternoon slalom to bag her ninth victory of the season in an aggregate time of one minute 59.54 [...]
(Reuters) – Carolina Ruiz Castillo put Spain back on the alpine skiing map by winning the women’s World Cup downhill in Meribel on Saturday, the first victory in the sport’s blue riband event by any Spaniard. At 31, the Chilean-born skier who trains in France outpaced the leading favorites to clinch her first World Cup [...]
(Reuters) – Aksel Lund Svindal joined an illustrious group on Saturday when he became world downhill champion for the second time after finishing third in Wednesday’s super-G. The Norwegian clocked two minutes 01.32 seconds on the Planai piste to emulate Toni Sailer, Jean-Claude Killy and Bernhard Russi with a second victory in an event no [...]
(Reuters) – Tina Maze became only the sixth woman to win in all five Alpine ski World Cup disciplines when she took victory in a super-G on Sunday. The Slovenian’s sixth race win of the season, in one minute 16.55 seconds, completed the set for Maze, who now looks almost certain to win the overall [...]
(Reuters) – Alice McKennis underlined the depth of American alpine skiing as she eclipsed her more celebrated compatriot Lyndsey Vonn to claim her maiden World Cup downhill victory in St Anton on Saturday. While all eyes were on Vonn who was making her comeback following a three-week break, McKennis stole the show in one minute [...]
Lindsey Vonn reflects last Friday on her poor showing in the World Cup downhill at Val d’Isere. (Michel Cottin/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Lindsey Vonn has decided to go home to the United States for an unexpected break in the middle of the World Cup ski season, and is unlikely to return to [...]
(Reuters) – Ted Ligety outclassed his rivals again with a comfortable victory in the classic Italian giant slalom of Alta Badia on Sunday. The world champion won his third giant slalom of the season in a combined time of two minutes and 37.27 seconds, 2.04 ahead of closest rival, Austrian Marcel Hirscher. While the gap [...]
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