Paerson Edges Poutiainen to Giant Slalom Gold
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SANTA CATERINA, Italy  - Sweden's Anja Paerson won  the women's giant slalom at the world championships Tuesday to  claim her second gold medal of the competition.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - American Bode Miller won his first World Cup super-giant slalom race Sunday, giving him his third consecutive victory of the season and moving him into an exclusive club.
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Hermann Maier won the giant slalom Thursday for his first gold medal at the Alpine Skiing World Championships since 1999, two years before he nearly lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
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ARE, Sweden  - Anja Paerson will set out to become the first woman to win four gold medals at the same world championships when she lines up for the slalom on Friday.
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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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Bode Miller made his ambitions clear when he won his fifth World Cup race of the season in a giant slalom on Sunday ahead of the best two skiers of recent years.
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen won for the second time in three races at Aspen Mountain, beating Italy&#39;s Manuela Moelgg by more than a second in a World Cup slalom on Sunday.
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Tina Maze of Slovenia speeds down the course on her way to win the women&#39;s World Cup giant slalom in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004.
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ST MORITZ, Switzerland  - Sweden's Anja Paerson celebrated her first World Cup win of the season with a well-deserved victory in Saturday's St Moritz downhill.
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ST MORITZ, Switzerland  - Sweden's Anja Paerson celebrated her first World Cup win of the season with a well-deserved victory in Saturday's St Moritz super-G.
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Bode Miller from the United States clears a gate during the men&#39;s ski World Cup giant slalom race, on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in Soelden, Austria.
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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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Anja Paerson wins the women's skiing super-G gold at the World Championships in Italy.
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Anja Paerson's  three-race winning streak at the world championships ends Tuesday when she falls in the giant slalom.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Massimiliano Blardone of Italy won the first men's World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday in a time of two minutes 27.88 seconds.
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ASPEN, United States  - Croatian Janica Kostelic won a women&#39;s alpine World Cup slalom ahead of Sweden&#39;s Anja Paerson and Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen.
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Slovenia&#39;s Tina Maze beat favourite Anja Paerson to win the second World Cup giant slalom of her career on Wednesday. Maze overturned a deficit of 0.33 seconds from the first leg to defeat last season&#39;s champion Paerson by 0.12 seconds.