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| Kearney eyes 13th straight World Cup moguls win (AP) | 01/02, 14:29 |
| Ten years ago, long before earning Olympic gold or embarking on her World Cup winning streak, Hannah Kearney skied around a bend at Park City's Deer Valley Resort and was a bit stunned. It wasn't because of the steep vertical or the length of the moguls run. Kearney, then just 15 and gearing up to be an Olympic forerunner that February, locked onto the size of the grandstand set up for the... | |
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| FIS sets makeup dates for 2 men's super-G races (AP) | 01/02, 7:01 |
| Two men's World Cup super-G races that were wiped out by poor weather conditions in January have been rescheduled in Switzerland and Norway. The International Ski Federation says Swiss resort Crans-Montana will stage a race on Feb. 24 to make up for the Jan. 20 race in Kitzbuehel, Austria. Kvitfjell in Norway will host a March 2 race to replace one lost Sunday at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. | |
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| Vonn leads 2nd downhill practice run in St. Moritz (AP) | 26/01, 11:30 |
| Lindsey Vonn took advantage of perfect weather and changes to the course to lead a training run Thursday for a World Cup downhill race. She improved upon her first practice run by four seconds, finishing in 1 minute, 44.43 seconds in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Vonn leads the downhill and overall World Cup standings heading into the race Saturday. | |
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| Ski officials try to calm anger over Hirscher win (AP) | 23/01, 12:11 |
| Austrian ski officials are asking for calm following Marcel Hirscher's disputed slalom victory, hoping to prevent Austrian and Croatian fans from clashing Tuesday during the annual Schladming night race. Austrian men's coach Mathias Berthold says "we don't want fans to oppose each other, we want a ski party like every year. | |
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| Ski officials try to calm anger over Hirscher (AP) | 23/01, 10:55 |
| Austrian ski officials are trying to calm reactions to Marcel Hirscher's apparently illegitimate victory in this month's Zagreb slalom, hoping to prevent Austrian and Croatian fans from misbehaving during the annual Schladming night race on Tuesday. "We don't want fans to oppose each other," Austrian men's head coach Mathias Berthold said Monday. | |
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| Austria's Kirchgasser wins World Cup slalom (AP) | 22/01, 10:05 |
| Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria won a World Cup slalom on Sunday after pre-race favorites Marlies Schild and Maria Hoefl-Riesch skied out on the first run. Kirchgasser led after the first leg and increased her advantage in the second, finishing in 1 minute, 47.25 seconds, more than sixth-tenths of a second faster than Finland's Tanja Poutiainen. | |
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| Coach: Hirscher straddled gate during Zagreb win (AP) | 22/01, 9:30 |
| World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher straddled a gate while winning the Jan. 5 night slalom in Croatia, a mistake that normally means automatic disqualification. Austrian coaches studying footage of Hirscher's second run in Zagreb after the race saw that one of his skis hit a gate and then passed it on the wrong side, Austria's head coach Mattias Berthold said Sunday. | |
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| Miller avoids crash, impresses Klammer in Austria (AP) | 21/01, 12:59 |
| Bode Miller got a slap on the back from Austrian great Franz Klammer after narrowly escaping a crash on the famed Streif course. Miller didn't get his first victory at the classic World Cup downhill on Saturday, but he got style points for a save at 80 mph. The 34-year-old Miller caught an icy bump at the Hausbergkante, one of the most challenging parts of the course. | |
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| Miller aims for 1st downhill win on Streif course (AP) | 20/01, 15:23 |
| Bode Miller aims for his first downhill win on the Streif course, while Didier Cuche tries for a record fifth. Miller would become the second American to win after Daron Rahlves in 2003. "Kitzbuehel is pretty much the pinnacle, it's the top of the downhill," Miller said Friday. On Saturday, he'll have to outrace Cuche. | |
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| Memories of Grugger's crash don't affect Austrians (AP) | 20/01, 6:57 |
| They can't wipe Hans Grugger's near-fatal crash out of their minds, but the Austria downhill skiers said they won't be affected by the memories in Saturday's World Cup race on the Streif course. Their teammate Grugger sustained life-threatening head injuries a year ago to the day on Friday when he lost his balance at the Mausefalle, one of the most challenging jumps on the World... | |
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