Skiing: Grugger leads as Austrians sweep Stelvio downhill
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BORMIO, Italy Johann Grugger won his first World Cup race Wednesday, taking the downhill on the course that will host the upcoming world championships.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Austria&#39;s Johann Grugger won the men&#39;s World Cup downhill, ahead of countrymen Michael Walchhofer and Fritz Strobl, for the first victory of his career.
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany  - World champion Mario Matt of Austria took a comfortable lead over local hero Felix Neureuther after the first leg of a World Cup slalom race on Sunday.
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - World champion Mario Matt took a 15-point lead over fellow Austrian Benjamin Raich in the slalom World Cup with victory in the discipline's penultimate race of the season on Sunday.
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American Bode Miller still held a commanding lead in the overall World Cup standings after Walchhofer won his first World Cup super-G race and led the first Austrian podium sweep this season -- and 68th overall.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta Dec 4, 2004 - Hilde Gerg of Germany won the second women&#39;s World Cup downhill of the season Saturday, skiing to victory in heavy snow and fog to win in 1 minute, 36.01 seconds.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's gold-medal winning ski team produced another winner on Saturday when Michaela Kirchgasser won her first World Cup victory in a giant slalom.
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Aksel Lund Svindal became the first Norwegian to win the downhill gold medal at the Alpine world championships after defending champion Bode Miller was unable to hold an early lead.
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Austria's Andrea Fischbacher and Switzerland's Fabienne Suter share a victory in a super-G in Sestriere, Italy, that is shaped by varying wind and several crashes.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. - Bode Miller&#39;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&#39;s Stephan Goergl in a Super G.
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ST MORITZ, Switzerland  - Veteran Hilde Gerg kept  the next generation of women skiers at bay on Tuesday, winning  a World Cup super-G race ahead of American Lindsey Kildow and  fellow German Maria Riesch.
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany  - World champion Mario Matt of Austria beat local hero Felix Neureuther in a World Cup slalom on Sunday with two classy runs down a steep and difficult course.
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SCOTLANDâS Finlay Mickel improved once again on his career-best World Cup downhill result when he finished 13th on the difficult Stelvio course in Bormio, Italy yesterday, finishing only 1.77 seconds behind Austriaâs Johann Grugger.
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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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Not to use too many technical gymnastics terms here, but Bruno Grandi started with a double-wienie. Then he went with an impressive buck pass.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's Marlies Schild was poised to collect the women's slalom World Cup on Sunday after setting the first-leg pace in the discipline she has dominated all season.
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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.