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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 ...
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.
Former Austrian minister convicted of corruption
A court found a former Austrian interior minister and EU lawmaker guilty of corruption on Monday, rejecting his arguments that he thought British ...
Lindsey Vonn skips slalom race in Flachau
Lindsey Vonn is skipping a women's World Cup night slalom on Tuesday because of a lack of recent training in the discipline. Vonn, the defending ...
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 ...
Winner Ligety hails his best-ever World Cup season
Ted Ligety is writing himself deeper into World Cup skiing history in what is fast becoming his career-best season. Victory on Saturday at the ...
Kosir, Kummer win snowboard parallel slalom events
Slovenian snowboarder Zan Kosir won a men's parallel slalom Saturday, the final World Cup event before the snowboard world championships.
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 ...
Experts identify new Mozart portrait
A round-faced young man with a thick head of hair depicted in a tiny 18th century portrait that had the experts puzzled for centuries now has a name ...
Slovenia wins ski jump World Cup team event
Slovenia surprisingly won a ski jumping World Cup team event on Friday, capitalizing on a late mistake by host Poland and sub-par performances from ...
Prommegger, Kober win snowboard parallel slaloms
Austrian snowboarder Andreas Prommegger won a men's parallel slalom night event Friday for his 10th snowboard World Cup victory. Prommegger, the ...
Austria women's speed team struggles before worlds
With the world championships in Schladming only 25 days away, the Austrian women's speed team is looking to finally get into gear. Neither defending ...
WCup downhill training canceled due to snowfall
Organizers have canceled Friday's final training session for a women's World Cup downhill race because of heavy snowfall. The cancelation left the ...
Austrian court finds 3 guilty of glorifying Nazism
An Austrian court has convicted a leading neo-Nazi and two accomplices of glorifying Nazism through a website and sentenced them to prison terms of ...
Fourcade helps France win biathlon World Cup relay
Martin Fourcade anchored France to victory in a closely contested men's biathlon World Cup relay on Thursday. Fourcade shot cleanly and skied superbly ...
Gut leads WCup downhill session; Vonn back in 24th
Lara Gut of Switzerland led the field by more than a second in the first training session for a women's World Cup downhill on Thursday, while Lindsey ...
Vonn feels 'excited' to be back on WCup circuit
Lindsey Vonn is "excited" to be back again on the World Cup circuit after a three-week layoff caused by an intestinal illness. Vonn spoke briefly ...
World Cup Ski Jumping Tour Results
Results Wednesday from a World Cup ski jumping event (jump distances in parentheses): 1. Anders Bardal, Norway, 264.4 points (128-130 meters). 2.
Vonn set to return for World Cup downhill training
Lindsey Vonn looks set to make her return at World Cup downhill training in Austria on Thursday after an absence of more than three weeks because of ...
Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe grads
Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their ...
Woman pushed onto path of Vienna subway, rescued
Police say a man pushed a woman onto subway tracks in Vienna, causing her to break her leg and lay immobile on the rails as workers scrambled to stop ...
Austrian Jewish leader says anti-Semitism growing
The leader of Vienna's Jewish community says the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Austria reported to his office have doubled over the past year ...
Schlierenzauer wins 2nd straight 4 Hills Tour
Gregor Schlierenzauer won his second straight Four Hills ski jumping title Sunday, extending Austria's unbeaten run in the prestigious competition to ...