An American Takes Second At Nordic Championships
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Bill Demong, who fractured his skull five years ago, wins the silver medal in the Nordic combined 15-kilometer event at the Nordic World Ski Championships on Saturday.
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Winter sports Bode Miller was back on the World Cup podium yesterday for the first time since breaking away from the US Ski Team. Miller was second in a super-G and just missed a successful title defense, finishing 0.02 seconds behind Didier Cuche of Switzerland in Val Gardena, Italy. Miller's previous best finish in 11 races this season was fourth ...
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Anja Paerson of Sweden won her second straight world title in the women's super-giant slalom Tuesday and American Lindsey Kildow captured silver for her first world championship medal.
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Anja Paerson won the women's combined event Friday, her second gold medal in as many races at the world ski championships. American Julia Mancuso took the silver medal.
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Americans Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves took the top two spots in the marquee event of the Alpine world championships, the men's downhill.
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen was heading for her second win in two days after leading the opening leg of the first World Cup slalom of the season on Saturday.
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American Bode Miller stormed to victory in the opening downhill of the 2004-05 World Cup season, clocking 1min 42.75sec to finish nearly a second ahead of France's Antoine Deneriaz.
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Marlies Schild won a World Cup giant slalom before her home fans Tuesday and Tanja Poutiainen of Finland regained the lead in the overall standings by finishing second.
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ASPEN - Kristina Koznick earned her first World Cup podium in two seasons Sunday, finishing third in the Aspen slalom behind winner Tanja Poutiainen of Finland.
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Stian Eckhoff and Frode Andresen gave Norway a 1-2 finish in a 10-kilometer World Cup biathlon sprint event Wednesday. Jay Hakkinen of the United States finished seventh, his best outing this season.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Bode Miller grabbed his second  gold medal in the space of eight days, winning Saturday's  Alpine ski world championship men's downhill in emphatic style.
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ASPEN, Colorado  - Finland's Tanja Poutiainen won  her second World Cup race in three days on Sunday after  favorite Janica Kostelic fell in the second leg of a slalom.
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Aksel Lund Svindal wins the men's giant slalom to claim his second gold of the World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden.
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AKE LOUISE, Alberta - World Cup leader Bode Miller gave up one-hundredth of a second through the first interval yesterday then stormed through a 2-mile downhill course to win by nearly a full second.
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Lindsey Kildow of the United States won her first World Cup race yesterday, capturing the season's first downhill in 1 minute 23.44 seconds. The 20-year-old Kildow battled wind and swirling snow on a shortened men's Olympic downhill course.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -- American Bode Miller held off the legendary Hermann Maeir to win his third successive World Cup race and join a select ban of skiing greats.
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Eirik Veraas Larsen of Norway, 27, added a bronze in men&#39;s K2 1,000m to his gold in K1 1,000m won earlier in Athens Olympic regatta here on Friday.