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(Reuters) – France’s Marion Rolland used her knowledge of the course to snatch a surprise downhill gold medal at the world Alpine ski championships on Sunday. Rolland, remembered for a freak crash at the 2010 Vancouver Games when her knee snapped seconds into the Olympic downhill, won by 0.16 seconds from Italy’s Nadia Fanchini with [...]
(Reuters) – Lindsey Vonn resumed her winning ways in her Lake Louise backyard by clinching her 12th race in the Canadian resort on Friday after a false start to the season. Her 10th downhill victory on the Men’s Olympic piste was clocked in one minute and 52.61 seconds and the American’s first World Cup win [...]
Canada’s Alex Harvey, shown here competing on Friday, won a silver medal at the World Cup finals on Sunday. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Canada’s Devon Kershaw finished with a silver medal after the men’s 15-kilometre pursuit on Sunday in Falun, Sweden in the last race of the World Cup finals. Fellow [...]
indsey Vonn, of the United States, smiles in the finish area after completing a women’s World Cup downhill on the Sochi Olympics course. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Another day, another title for Lindsey Vonn. Just 24 hours after clinching her fifth consecutive World Cup downhill title, the American clinched her third [...]
Lindsey Vonn talks to a reporters following Friday’s downhill training session in Sochi, Russia. (Francis Bompard/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Lindsey Vonn led the final World Cup downhill training session on the Sochi Olympic course by a huge margin Friday, while other skiers had trouble. Vonn finished in one minute 49.21 seconds down [...]
FIS race director Atle Skardal, left, watches Wednesday’s training session. Not so Thursday. (Olivier Morin/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Skiers and coaches complained that there were not enough workers to clear fresh snow off the 2014 Sochi Olympics downhill course on Thursday, forcing training for a women’s World Cup race to be cancelled. [...]
Georg Streitberger of Austria skis Friday at the Rosa Khutor Mountain Resort in Sochi, Russia. (Clive Rose/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Georg Streitberger led the third and final World Cup downhill training session Friday on the course that will be used for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Another Austrian, Hannes Reichelt, led the opening [...]
Klaus Kroell used a fast bottom section to win the downhill at Chamonix. (Michel Cottin/Agence Zoom/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Klaus Kroell gave Austria its first World Cup downhill victory of the season Friday in Chamonix, France, edging American Bode Miller by 0.01 seconds in a race so tight the top five skiers [...]
Kaya Turski of Montreal, seen here competing in the slopestyle finals on Sunday in Vermont, became the first woman to win X-Games gold in slopestyle three straight years. (Mike Ridewood/Canadian Press) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Canada’s Kaya Turski made history at the Winter X-Games on Thursday in Aspen, Colo. The 23-year-old from Montreal won [...]
Lindsey Vonn celebrates in the finish area after winning Sunday’s super-G in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images) (PhatzRadio / CBC Sports) — Lindsey Vonn ended a five-week winless streak Sunday with an emphatic victory in a World Cup super-G that moved her into sole possession of third place on the career wins list. The [...]
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