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Germany's Maria Riesch edged out arch-rival Lindsey Vonn to win the season-opening women's World Cup slalom in Levi, Finland, yesterday. World champion Riesch posted a combined time of one minute 48.71 seconds in her favourite discipline, 0.08 sec ahead...
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Finland's Tanja Poutiainen celebrates after winning the women's giant slalom in the World Cup opener in Soelden, Austria. (Alessandro Trovati/Associated Press) It was an exciting start to the women's alpine season Saturday as Tanja Poutiainen of Finland...
Tags: Lindsey Vonn, Denise Karbon, giant slalom, world cup, opener run, Tanja Poutiainen, Austria, skiing season
Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway clinched his second World Cup overall title on Saturday when Benjamin Raich straddled a gate in the opening run of the final slalom of the season and was disqualified. Going into the race, Austrian Raich was the only skier...
Tags: world cup, Benjamin Raich, Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway, cup overall, giant slalom, cup title, Tanja Poutiainen, svindal clinched, overall title
Lindsey Vonn enters Saturday's giant slalom with a chance to become only the fifth woman to earn World Cup victories in all five disciplines. After becoming the first American woman in 25 years to win the overall World Cup trophy last season behind dominating...
Tags: world cup, giant slalom, Tanja Poutiainen, Manuela Moelgg, Finland
France's Tessa Worley overcame driving snow and poor visibility Saturday to win a giant slalom at the Aspen Winternational for her first World Cup victory. Worley, whose previous best was fifth place, was followed by Tanja Poutiainen of Finland and Elisabeth...
Tags: Tessa Worley, Elisabeth Goergl, giant slalom, world cup, Finland, Austria, France, Tanja Poutiainen, aspen winternational
Tanja Poutiainen of Finland on Friday won the women's World Cup slalom event at Zagreb, edging out Marlies Schild of Austria and Slovakia's Veronika Zuzolova to win in 1 min 53.72sec. Schild and Zuzolova were 0.52 amd 0.68 sec off the pace
Tags: Tanja Poutiainen, world cup, Marlies Schild, Nicole Hosp of Austria