Raich leads giant slalom
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - Olympic champion Benjamin Raich stepped up his challenge to world gold medallist Aksel Lund Svindal with the fastest run in the first leg of a World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday.
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Canada&#39;s Thomas Grandi won a giant slalom Sunday for his first World Cup victory in his 12 seasons on the circuit. Bode Miller missed a gate and did not finish his second run, reducing the American&#39;s lead in the overall standings.
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Bode Miller's three-race winning streak ended Thursday, but the American still added to his commanding lead in the World Cup overall standings by finishing second to Austria's Stephan Goergl in a Super G.
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Thomas Grandi of Canada kisses his ski after winning a men&#39;s World Cup Giant Slalom in the Austrian ski resort of Flachau, December 21, 2004.
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Hermann Maier finished first in the giant slalom for his first gold medal at the world championships since 1999.
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WENGEN, Switzerland  - Austria's Benjamin Raich  moved to within 198 points of overall World Cup leader Bode  Miller on Friday, after clinching victory in a restructured  combined discipline.
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WENGEN, Switzerland  - Austrian technical  specialist Benjamin Raich skied to his first World Cup combined  victory on Friday.
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SOELDEN, Austria Sweden&#39;s Anja Paerson (AHN&#39;-yuh PEER&#39;-sun) has won the season-opening World Cup giant slalom. The US got an encouraging showing when Kristina Koznick finished fourth, matching her best result of last season.
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ARE, Sweden  - Austrian Benjamin Raich, winner of the world combined title in Bormio two years ago, is one of the favorites for the new super combined title which makes its world championship debut on Thursday.
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Tahoe City&#39;s Julia Mancuso proved she was podium worthy in a World Cup women&#39;s giant slalom on Wednesday, but the results didn&#39;t reflect it.
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ZWIESEL, Germany  - Austrian champion Marlies Schild took a big lead after the first leg of a women's slalom World Cup race on Sunday while two rivals for the overall championship struggled.
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ALTA BADIA, Italy  - France's Stephane Tissot led after the first leg of a men's World Cup slalom on Monday, according to provisional timings.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - American Bode Miller made it a clean sweep Sunday, winning a World Cup super giant-slalom ski race. Miller, who won Saturday&#39;s downhill, captured Sunday&#39;s raced in a time of one minute 28.18 seconds to finish first.
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Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria cut through falling snow to win the first women's World Cup super giant slalom of the season Sunday.
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Italian Massimiliano Blardone wins the the opening World Cup giant slalom race of the season at Beaver Creek.
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Con il tempo di 43''65 l'austriaco Benjamin Raich guida lo slalom di combinata di Coppa del Mondo di...
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American Bode Miller won the season-opening giant slalom by more than a second Sunday, the initial step toward what he hopes will be the first World Cup overall title for a U.S. skier in more than two decades.