Alpine Skiing: Poutiainen Wins Slalom, Kostelic Out
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Finland's Tanja Poutiainen won a Women's  World Cup slalom Thursday but the Croatian fans were left  disappointed when Janica Kostelic failed to finish the first  leg of the race on her home ground.
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Winter sports His hip so sore he questioned whether he could ski, Bode Miller won a super-combined in Chamonix, France, yesterday and took over first place in the Alpine skiing World Cup overall standings. Miller, who was frustrated at finishing seventh in Saturday's downhill, won for the fourth time this season and catapulted from third to first in the standings, ...
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ASPEN - Finn Tanja Poutianen won the second giant slalom of the season Friday, holding off defending World Cup champ Anja Paerson of Sweden by 0.09 seconds.
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Mario Matt of Austria won a men's slalom Sunday for his seventh World Cup victory. Matt led after the first run by more than half a second and protected his margin in the second heat to beat Felix Neureuther of Germany. Matt had a combined time of 1 minute, 35.66 seconds.
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ASPEN, Colorado  - Austria's Marlies Schild led after the first leg of a women's World Cup Alpine skiing slalom on Sunday.
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Croatia&#39;s Janica Kostelic won her first World Cup race in nearly two years, charging through steady snow and choppy conditions to beat Anja Paerson by more than a second Saturday in this season&#39;s first World Cup slalom.
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Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the giant slalom Wednesday, and American Ted Ligety finished fourth, missing out on a medal by 0.07 seconds at the world ski championships.
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ARE, Sweden  - Mario Matt rescued the Austrian men's team in the nick of time on Saturday, winning the men's slalom to give them their first gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.
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BEAVER CREEK, United States  - Norwegian Lasse Kjus won a men&#39;s World Cup giant slalom ahead of Austrians Hermann Maier and Benjamin Raich.
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Marlies Schild of Austria wins a World Cup slalom for the seventh time this season on Sunday to claim first place in the overall standings.
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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland  - Aksel Lund Svindal put himself in prime position to win the overall World Cup with a narrow victory in an incident-packed final downhill of the Alpine ski season on Wednesday.
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ZAGREB: Croatia's slalom world champion Ivica Kostelic is expected to leave hospital this week with a clean bill of health following tests after a heart scare, a local daily newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Olympic silver medalist Ivica Kostelic wins super-combi for his first World Cup victory in three years while Bode Miller again crashes out of a race.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Austrian Stephan Goergl  won his first World Cup Alpine ski race with victory in a  super-G on Thursday, pushing American favorite Bode Miller into  an unaccustomed second place.
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen snatched back the women&#39;s World Cup lead with her third victory of the Alpine ski season on Sunday but played down her chances of winning the overall title.
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Though she gave it her best shot to win a third medal at the World Alpine Championships yesterday, Julia Mancuso, the 20-year-old American sensation, could not break through the European slalom powerhouse of Croatia's Janica Kostelic, Finland's Tanja Poutiainen, and the Czech Republic's Sarka Zahrobska, who filled the podium after last night's second run.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal won a men's World Cup super-combined race on Thursday after American favorite Bode Miller crashed out early in the slalom run.