Austrians, Italian prevail in slalom
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BEAVER CREEK - Most individuals wouldn&#39;t be able to turn a steering wheel 63 times in less than a minute. Try it on skis. Some racers in Sunday&#39;s Birds of Prey slalom didn&#39;t even make it through the first
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Pavol and Peter Hochschorner took the gold medal once again in pairs canoe slalom Friday, winning by more than 3 seconds.
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ALTA BADIA, ITALY - Canada&#39;s Thomas Grandi won a giant slalom Sunday for his first World Cup victory in his 12 seasons on the circuit.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - The Austrian women claimed their first victory of the season, finishing one-two in the year&#39;s opening World Cup super-giant slalom race Sunday, while three Canadians finished in the top 20.
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Flachau, Austria (Ski Press)-Canadaâs Thomas Grandi tallied his second win in three days, stringing together giant slaloms in Alta Badia on Sunday and Flachau on Tuesday to score the only two wins of his World Cup career.
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Denise Karbon of Italy won the season-opening World Cup giant slalom on Saturday, beating out Olympic giant slalom champion Julia Mancuso.
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Anja Paerson of Sweden won a slalom for the first time this season Sunday while rival Tanja Poutiainen of Finland was third to capture the overall discipline title.
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Kalle Palander gets his third career giant slalom victory Sunday in Alta Badia, Italy, while American Ted Ligety skies the fastest second run to finish fifth.
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SEMMERING, Austria - Austrian Marlies Schild put together the fastest time on each run to win a World Cup slalom Wednesday night by more than a second while Vail&#39;s Sarah Schleper tied for fifth.
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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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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's Marlies Schild took the slalom World Cup on Sunday, once again destroying all comers with her sixth race win of the season.
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Hilde Gerg of Germany captured a World Cup downhill Saturday in heavy snow and fog, winning in 1 minute, 36.01 seconds. Renate Goetschl of Austria, last year&#39;s downhill champion, was second in 1:36.16 in the second downhill of the season for the women.
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Giorgio Rocca ha vinto lo slalom di Flachau. L&#39;azzurro, al quarto successo della carriera in Coppa del mondo, si Ã¨ imposto con il tempo di 1&#39;34&#39;&#39;86, precedendo l&#39;austriaco Rainer Schoenfelder (1&#39;35&#39;&#39;10) e il tedesco Alois Vogl (1&#39;35&#39;&#39;17) .
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Johann Grugger of Austria used a strong finish to capture his first World Cup downhill race Wednesday in Bormio, Italy.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Benjamin Raich of  Austria won a men's Alpine ski World Cup slalom race Sunday  with a time of one minute 51.06 seconds, according to  provisional results.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Sweden's Andre Myhrer tamed the treacherous Birds of Prey piste on Sunday to win the second men's slalom of the World Cup season after several big names crashed out.
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Austria's Marlies Schild claims the slalom World Cup title on Sunday after her sixth win of the season in Spain.