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Austria's Hirscher win slalom before home fans
Marcel Hirscher won a World Cup slalom for the 10th time in his career Sunday, drawing roars from a home crowd that included Austria-born Arnold ...
Felix Neureuther wins World Cup slalom
Felix Neureuther of Germany won a World Cup slalom Sunday, defeating overall leader and training partner Marcel Hirscher of Austria. Neureuther made ...
American Ligety posting best World Cup season
Ted Ligety is writing himself into World Cup skiing history in what is fast becoming his career-best season. Victory on Saturday at the Adelboden ...
Ligety of US wins World Cup giant slalom
Ted Ligety won a duel with Marcel Hirscher in a World Cup giant slalom Saturday for a career-best fourth victory of the season in his specialty event.
Hirscher wins night slalom; gatekeeper dies
Defending overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher of Austria was fastest in both runs Tuesday, winning a night slalom marred by the death of a ...
Amid doubts by rivals, Ligety gets OK on his skis
Ted Ligety is ruling the giant slalom like few others, and the praise extraordinary: "phenomenon," ''superhero" and "unreal." His performance also has ...
US skier Steven Nyman wins World Cup downhill
It was about time some good fortune fell Steven Nyman's way. The American skier's once promising career was derailed for the past five years by a list ...
Svindal continues dominance with super-G win
Not too many skiers can afford to make a big mistake and still be more than a second faster than anyone else. Lindsey Vonn has done it a few times on ...
Ligety wins giant slalom with blazing final run
Ted Ligety simply can't be caught these days. Not on these new giant slalom skis, anyway. At least, that's the prevailing feeling among a good portion ...
Marsaglia of Italy captures 1st World Cup race
For some of the skiers, the super-G course was so treacherous and tricky that it was a wipeout waiting to happen. For Matteo Marsaglia, the hill was ...
Italy's Innerhofer wins Beaver Creek downhill
Christof Innerhofer could barely train in the offseason because of his chronically aching back. After this performance, the Italian skier was ...
Norway's Svindal wins super-G, completes sweep
Aksel Lund Svindal thought he had a chance for a perfect weekend at Lake Louise. Turns out, he was right. Svindal won a super-G Sunday, edging Adrien ...