Swiss Cuche joins battle for overall cup
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One gate spelled frustration for Benjamin Raich and Aksel Lund Svindal on Sunday and took the fight between the World Cup rivals into the final meeting of the season.
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Didier Cuche, leader della classifica di specialit&agrave;, &egrave; stato il piÃ¹ veloce nella prima...
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BODE MILLER of the United States equalled Marc Girardelli record when he won the men&#39;s World Cup alpine slalom race today. He has now won a race in all four disciplines (downhill, slalom, giant slalom and super-giant slalom) in the same World Cup season.
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Thomas Grandi of Canada speeds down the course on his way to winning a World Cup men&#39;s Giant Slalom in Alta Badia, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004.
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David Nalbandian of Argentina reached his third straight Swiss Indoors final, setting up a title match against Jiri Novak and keeping alive his chance for a spot in the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup in Houston.
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Emirates Team New Zealand will now have a chance to sail for the Americaâs Cup against Alinghi, the Swiss syndicate that raided the Kiwisâ talent and pried the trophy away in 2003.
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VALENCIA, Spain  - Team New Zealand will come out growling on Saturday, hungry to beat Alinghi and level the America's Cup again after a nasty spinnaker rip lost them the fifth race of the best-of-nine series.
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American Julia Mancuso is single-handedly taking on the mighty Austrian women as the Alpine ski World Cup races to an exciting finish.
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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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Bode Miller spent the off-season forming a large and costly support team to help him try to surpass Phil Mahre as the most successful racer to compete on Alpine skiingâs grueling World Cup circuit.
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VALENCIA, Spain  - For the past two months, Alinghi have watched as the 11 teams hoping to challenge them for the America's Cup battled it out.
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Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen clears a gate during the women&#39;s slalom World Cup race in Zauchensee, Austria, on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2004.
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VALENCIA, Spain -- Alinghi won a thrilling photo finish over Team New Zealand and clinched the America's Cup on Tuesday, with Switzerland becoming only the third country to retain the 156-year-old trophy.
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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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Team New Zealand will push thoughts of a 24-year jinx aside on Sunday when they take on defenders Alinghi in their second America's Cup race after losing the first.
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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy  - Austria's Renate  Goetschl stormed to her second World Cup super-G win of the  week with victory in the Dolomites on Friday.
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. Grandi, who had never won in 12 years on the circuit before Sunday&#39;s victory in the Italian resort of Alta Badia, beat first-leg leader Didier Cuche of Switzerland by 0.15sec with a time of 2min 15.90sec.