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Olsson dominates to win 50K at Nordic worlds
Johan Olsson dominated to win the individual 50-kilometer classic on Sunday and capture Sweden's first gold medal with a brilliant solo performance ...
Swiss skier Janka ends season amid health concerns
The Swiss ski federation says former World Cup overall champion Carlo Janka has ended his season and will undergo medical tests to search for possible ...
Swiss voters reject 2022 Winter Olympics bid
Primed as the favorite to host the 2022 Winter Olympics at ritzy St. Moritz and Davos, Switzerland won't even bid after the project was rejected in ...
Anna Fenninger of Austria wins super-G race
Anna Fenninger of Austria upstaged the favorites to win a super-G race Sunday, while overall World Cup winner Tina Maze was placed under police ...
Svindal clinches World Cup super-G title in Norway
Aksel Lund Svindal clinched the World Cup super-G title on Sunday after winning his first race in Norway. The Norwegian edged Austria's Georg ...
Norway's Aukland, Kveli win Swedish ski marathon
Norway's Jorgen Aukland and Laila Kveli won the 56-mile Vasaloppet cross-country ski marathon on Sunday. Aukland outsprinted Swede Daniel Tynell and ...
Bjoergen and Lamy Chappuis win again at worlds
Marit Bjoergen and Jason Lamy Chappuis continued to dominate the Nordic world championships, respectively winning their fourth and third gold medals ...
Austria wins 5th successive ski jump world title
Austria won its fifth successive ski jump team title on the large hill to take its first gold medal at the Nordic skiing world championships on ...
France beats Austria in Nordic combined at worlds
Jason Lamy Chappuis helped France to another team victory in the Nordic combined at the world championships and won an historic third gold medal in ...
Bjoergen wins 30K classic for 12th world title
Marit Bjoergen secured her 12th world title on Saturday by beating Olympic champion Justyna Kowalczyk in a sprint finish to win the 30-kilometer ...
France's Theaux wins men's downhill in Norway
Adrien Theaux of France earned his second career World Cup victory Saturday by narrowly beating home favorite Aksel Lund Svindal in a downhill.
Maze sets WCup points record with downhill win
Tina Maze of Slovenia broke the record for points in a World Cup season on Saturday by winning a downhill, which also made her only the third woman ...
Norway wins men's relay at Nordic worlds
Petter Northug gave Norway its seventh straight relay gold at the Nordic world championships on Friday, using his trademark sprinting ability to beat ...
Weirather wins WCup super-G, edges Mancuso of US
Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein secured her first World Cup victory Friday when she edged Julia Mancuso of the United states on a steep and fast ...
Tina Weirather wins World Cup super-G
With her famous parents in attendance, Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein celebrated her first World Cup victory when she mastered a steep and fast ...
Norway takes 6th win at worlds, Germany gets 1st
Norway claimed its sixth victory of the Nordic skiing world championships in the women's 4x5-kilometer cross-country relay on Thursday, while Eric ...
Stoch wins ski jump at worlds for 1st major medal
Kamil Stoch of Poland claimed the first major medal of his career with victory in the individual large hill ski jump at the Nordic world championships ...
Frenzel dominates to win Nordic combined at worlds
Eric Frenzel won an individual Nordic combined event Thursday for Germany's first gold medal of the world championships, beating Bernhard Gruber of ...
Norway wins 4x5K relay at Nordic worlds
Marit Bjoergen anchored Norway to its second straight 4x5-kilometer cross-country relay world title Thursday. Bjoergen, Kristin Stoermer Steira, ...
Norway ski federation blasts TV doping allegations
Norway's ski federation has strongly criticized a Swedish TV report that cast doping suspicions against eight-time Olympic champion Bjoern Daehlie and ...
Tina Maze leads World Cup downhill training
Tina Maze set the fastest time Thursday in the second training run for a women's World Cup downhill, one of three races being held this week in the ...
Hendrickson looks to Olympics after world title
Already a ski jumping world champion at 18, Sarah Hendrickson now has her sights set on something bigger — the sport's first Olympic gold medal.
Piller Cottrer retires from cross-country skiing
Olympic and world champion Pietro Piller Cottrer has retired from cross-country skiing at the age of 38, after a knee injury last month.
Northug wins individual 15K at Nordic Worlds
Norwegian cross-country great Petter Northug earned his first gold medal at the Nordic world championships in the 15-kilometer individual freestyle ...
Austria's Fenninger tops downhill training
Anna Fenninger of Austria set the fastest time in Wednesday's first training run for a women's World Cup downhill, one of three races being held this ...