Women's skiing

Women's skiing

• Northug, Randall win World Cup sprint races

  Petter Northug of Norway won his fourth World Cup race Friday, winning the men's freestyle race at the Sochi Olympic cross-country course. 

• Hirscher, Duerr win parallel slaloms

  Austria's Marcel Hirscher and Lena Duerr of Germany dominated the parallel slalom World Cup races on a giant ramp in downtown Moscow on Tuesday. 

• Injured slalom champion Schild might defend title

  Marlies Schild might recover in time from knee surgery to defend her slalom title at next month's world championships, the Austrian ski federation ... 

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  Maze wins slalom before home fans in Maribor

  Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze rebounded from a close loss by posting an emphatic slalom victory before her home fans Sunday, giving the Slovenian ... 

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  Vonn beats Maze to win a World Cup giant slalom

  Lindsey Vonn showed she can beat Tina Maze in the Slovenian's best discipline and even on her home snow. While it may be too late to challenge her ... 

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  Vonn's American teammates show they can win

  Most people know of Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso, and maybe recently heard of American teen skiing sensation Mikaela Shiffrin. But who are these ... 

• Norway wins cross-country World Cup relay events

  Norway again won both the men's and women's relay competitions at a cross-country World Cup meet Sunday. The men's team of Eldar Roenning, Martin ... 

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  Rebensburg wins snowy, shortened super-G; Vonn 7th

  Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany won a shortened World Cup super-G amid heavy snowfall Sunday, while Lindsey Vonn struggled with the difficult ... 

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  Poltoranin, Bjoergen win WCup cross-country races

  Alexey Poltoranin of Kazakhstan and Marit Bjoergen of Norway won cross-country World Cup races on Saturday. Poltoranin won the men's 15-kilometer ... 

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  Vonn shows she's back in form with downhill win

  Lindsey Vonn is back at full speed. That means she's back to being half a second faster than anyone else. And most importantly, back to being fully ... 

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  Def. champ Merighetti leads Cortina DH training

  Defending champion Daniela Merighetti of Italy led the only training session Friday for the annual World Cup downhill on the Olympia delle Tofane ... 

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  Already dominating, Maze draws out some new goals

  By any measure, Tina Maze is dominating the World Cup ski circuit this season. The Slovenian has six wins, 13 podium finishes and a massive 590-point ... 

• Teller and Woerner win World Cup ski cross events

  John Teller of the United States won a freestyle World Cup ski cross event on Wednesday, while Alex Fiva of Switzerland retained the overall lead ... 

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  US teen Shiffrin wins WCup slalom for 3rd victory

  American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin interrupted her homework for a couple of hours on Tuesday to write another piece of ski racing history at a women's ... 

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  Women's downhill training in Cortina canceled

  Local organizers have canceled Thursday's opening downhill training session for this weekend's women's World Cup race because of forecasts of heavy ... 

• Shiffrin eyes Moser-Proell's record at WCup slalom

  In her first full World Cup season, American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin can already match a record set by skiing great Annemarie Moser-Proell. 

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  Russia's men, Norway's women win WCup team sprints

  Mikhail Jun Devjatiarov teamed with Nikolay Morilov to win a men's team sprint for Russia at a cross-country skiing World Cup event on Sunday. 

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  Maze wins super-G, completes WCup discipline sweep

  Tina Maze of Slovenia reached another milestone in her stellar season on Sunday by winning her first super-G and becoming the sixth female skier to ... 

• WCup leader Takanashi wins women's ski jump event

  Sara Takanashi of Japan won her fourth women's ski jump event of the season to extend her lead in the World Cup standings on Sunday. The 16-year-old ... 

• American Hendrickson wins World Cup ski jump

  Defending overall World Cup champion Sarah Hendrickson of the United States scored a narrow victory over Sawra Takanashi of Japan in a women's ski ... 

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  Peterson, Malvalehto win cross-country sprints

  Teodor Peterson of Sweden and Mona-Lisa Malvalehto of Finland won cross-country skiing World Cup sprints on Saturday. Peterson won the men's 1. 

• Fiva and Limbacher win World Cup ski cross events

  Alex Fiva of Switzerland won his second straight ski cross event to move ahead of countryman Armin Niederer in the overall freestyle World Cup ... 

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  McKennis wins downhill for 1st World Cup victory

  Alice McKennis of the United States earned her first World Cup victory by winning a downhill Saturday, and Lindsey Vonn placed sixth upon her return ... 

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  Germany's Goessner gets 3rd biathlon World Cup win

  Miriam Goessner of Germany captured her third biathlon World Cup victory after missing only one target in a women's 7.5-kilometer sprint race Friday.