Mancuso Takes 2nd in Super-Combined
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Anja Paerson won the super-combined event on Friday, adding another gold medal after a victory in the super-G on Tuesday. Olympic champion Julia Mancuso of the United States finished second.
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Canadian Thomas Grandi won his second World Cup giant slalom in three days Tuesday, while American Bode Miller extended his lead in the overall standings with a third-place finish.
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BORMIO, Italy  - American Bode Miller was  eliminated from the combined event at the world championships  on Thursday but still wowed the crowd with a virtuoso display  of one-ski downhill racing.
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TARVISIO, Italy  - Renate Goetschl of Austria added the downhill World Cup to the super-G title she has already won with second place behind American Julia Mancuso in the penultimate race of the season on Saturday.
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Thomas Grandi on Sunday became the first Canadian man to win a World Cup race since Cary Mullen in 1994 at Aspen, Colo. Grandi, who was second after the first run, covered the steep and twisting Gran Risa
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REITERALM, Austria  - Niklas Rainer of Sweden led the standings after the super-G leg of a men's Alpine skiing World Cup super combined race on Sunday.
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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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SANTA CATERINA, Italy  - Janica Kostelic of  Croatia won the women's combined race at the world  championships Friday, according to provisional results.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Austria's Benjamin Raich took the  lead in the men's combined at the world championships on  Thursday with a superb slalom run moving him ahead of  compatriot Michael Walchhofer.
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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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Bode Miller won the super-combined title Sunday in Chamonix, France, earning his fourth World Cup victory this season and taking the lead in the overall standings.
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Julia Mancuso wins a downhill on Saturday for her fourth victory this season to move within nine points of Austrian Marlies Schild atop the World Cup overall standings.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Austria's Benjamin Raich won the  men's combined at the world championships on Thursday with two  superb slalom runs delivering him his first gold medal.
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ARE, Sweden  - Austrian Benjamin Raich, winner of the world combined title in Bormio two years ago, is one of the favorites for the new super combined title which makes its world championship debut on Thursday.
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Croatian Ivica Kostelic records his first World Cup victory since December 2003 after winning a super-combined race on Sunday.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Italy's Massimiliano Blardone powered to victory in the first men's World Cup giant slalom of the season on Saturday after local favorite Bode Miller stumbled in the second run.
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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.