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  Russian oligarchs foot most of 2014 Sochi Olympics

  The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of ... 

• Olympic ski jump champ Widhoelzl returns as coach

  Former Olympic and world ski jumping champion Andreas Widhoelzl of Austria will return to the World Cup circuit as a coach, five years after ending ... 

• Putin sure Sochi Games prep will be completed

  Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is certain that the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi will be successful despite concerns about construction ... 

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  Russia: Sochi security tight after Boston bombs

  The naming of two Chechen brothers as the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing is reviving fears about security at the 2014 Winter Games in ... 

• Austrian ski coach woken up from coma after crash

  The speed coach of the Austrian men's ski team has woken up from an induced coma and was breathing on his own Friday, 12 days after suffering severe ... 

• Ski coach Pfeifer to lead Austrian slalom team

  Ski coach Marko Pfeifer has quit as men's head coach of Sweden after three years and will return to his native Austria to lead the slalom team. 

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  Russia's Sochi busy storing snow for 2014 Olympics

  In April, at the end of another seemingly endless winter, most Russians are eager to get rid of the piles of snow that have clogged their cities and ... 

• Austria ski coach kept in induced coma after crash

  The speed coach of the Austrian men's ski team is being kept in an induced coma after having spinal surgery Wednesday, three days after suffering ... 

• Russia charges former Olympic committee official

  Russian prosecutors filed abuse of office charges against the former deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee on Wednesday. The move against ... 

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  WADA backs HGH test against 'extremist' NFL union

  The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for ... 

• Police nab man who sent threat to ski star Maze

  German police say they have identified a man suspected of sending a death threat to World Cup skiing overall champion Tina Maze of Slovenia. 

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  Jurij Tepes wins season-ending ski flying event

  Jurij Tepes of Slovenia earned his first individual ski jump World Cup victory in the final event of the season Sunday, winning a ski flying ... 

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  Northug clinches overall cross-country WCup title

  Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season. 

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  Slovenia wins team ski flying event on World Cup

  Jurij Tepes helped host Slovenia win a team ski flying event Saturday at the final ski jump World Cup meet of the season. Tepes had his team's longest ... 

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  Northug closes in on cross-country World Cup title

  Petter Northug closed in on the overall cross-country World Cup title Saturday by finishing fourth in a 15-kilometer mass start race won by fellow ... 

• Swiss appoint 2 Austrians to key Alpine team jobs

  The Swiss ski federation has appointed two Austrians to key jobs after a disastrous World Cup season ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The Swiss ... 

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  Northug, Bjoergen win at cross-country World Cup

  Norway dominated at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday, with Petter Northug winning the men's 2.5-kilometer freestyle prologue and ... 

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  Bjoergen wins prologue in x-country World Cup

  Marit Bjoergen of Norway won the 2.5-kilometer freestyle prologue at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday. The prologue and a sprint ... 

• Austrian ski coach Kriechbaum to lead women's team

  Jurgen Kriechbaum has been appointed head coach of Austria's women's Alpine skiing team, taking over from Herbert Mandl. The federation says ... 

• APNewsBreak: IOC to retest Turin Olympic samples

  With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ... 

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  Hendrickson again edges Takanashi to win WCup meet

  American Sarah Hendrickson edged Japan's Sara Takanashi on Sunday to win the season's last women's ski jumping World Cup meet on the large hill at ... 

• Chapuis wins ski cross race, Fiva takes WCup title

  World champion Jean Frederic Chapuis of France held off Germany's Armin Niederer to win a ski cross rase Sunday, helping Alex Fiva of Switzerland ...