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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 ...
Hirscher earns 10th career World Cup slalom win
Marcel Hirscher was cheered by 21,000 Austrian ski fans, including a standing ovation from Austria-born Arnold Schwarzenegger, after earning his tenth ...
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 ...
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 ...
Italy's Paris wins WCup downhill in Kitzbuehel
Dominik Paris won the downhill in Kitzbuehel on Saturday, becoming only the second Italian skier to capture the classic World Cup race on the Streif ...
Svindal wins super-G for 20th career WCup victory
Aksel Lund Svindal became the first skier in nine years to win three World Cup super-G races in a season on Friday. Austrian standout Hermann Maier ...
Italy's Innerhofer fined for skiing on after crash
Christof Innerhofer has been given the unfavorable start position of 46th for Saturday's World Cup downhill as a punishment by the international ski ...
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 ...
10 years after win, Rahlves skies on Streif again
Ten years after winning the classic World Cup downhill on the famous Streif course, Daron Rahlves has come back to Kitzbuehel to have one more go.
Kroell leads final training before WCup downhill
Klaus Kroell is determined to become the first Austrian winner of the classic World Cup downhill on the Streif course since Michael Walchhofer in 2006
Svindal fastest again in WCup downhill training
Aksel Lund Svindal has never had much success in the Kitzbuehel downhill, but still finds himself a firm favorite to win Saturday's classic World Cup ...
Felix Neureuther wins World Cup slalom
Felix Neureuther of Germany finally mastered Marcel Hirscher, his regular training partner, to win a high-class World Cup slalom on Sunday.
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 ...
Innerhofer wins World Cup downhill at Wengen
On a day when the World Cup speed record fell three times in a matter of minutes, no one could match Christof Innerhofer when it came to consistency ...
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 ...
Speed record in sight at WCup downhill in Wengen
A wide open contest in the men's World Cup downhill on Saturday might deliver a winner who sets a speed record on the classic Lauberhorn slope that ...
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 ...
Alexis Pinturault wins World Cup super-combined
Alexis Pinturault of France used his superior slalom skills to win a World Cup super-combined on Friday, after being 22nd fastest in the downhill ...
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 ...
Ligety enters key phase in overall World Cup race
Ted Ligety sees the next two weekends of classic World Cup races as key to his challenge for the coveted overall title. With seven point-scoring ...
Bode Miller to miss rest of the season
Bode Miller will skip the rest of the World Cup season to rest his surgically repaired left knee. The two-time overall champion had microfracture ...
Clarey leads French 1-2 in downhill training run
Johan Clarey was fastest in a downhill training run Wednesday on the full Lauberhorn course, the longest on the World Cup circuit. Clarey timed 2 ...
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 ...