Svindal powers to golden double, Ligety finishes fourth
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ARE, Sweden  - Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal powered to victory in the men's giant slalom on Wednesday to bag his second gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.
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Sport: American takes 200m gold to become third man in history to win world championship sprint double.
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Mountain biker Marie-Helene Premont of Chateau-Richer, Que. captured the silver on a tough and sun-baked course in the suburbs of Athens today, finishing behind winner Gunn-Rita Dahle of Norway.
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LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland  - Aksel Lund Svindal put himself in prime position to win the overall World Cup with a narrow victory in an incident-packed final downhill of the Alpine ski season on Wednesday.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova took advantage of Elena Dementieva's nine double-faults and reached the Pilot Pen semifinals by winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 Thursday in a rematch of the 2004 U.S. Open final.
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Somehow, Nicolas Massu of Chile summoned the strength and the shots to win his second gold medal of the Olympic Games. That is twice as many medals as the entire United States tennis team won.
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FLACHAU, Austria  - Canadian Thomas Grandi stretched a pre-Christmas explosion of form, winning his second race in 48 hours with a World Cup giant slalom victory.
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Il norvegese Axel Svindal, detentore della Coppa del Mondo di sci, sta recuperando dopo il brutto in...
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Marlies Schild of Austria won a women&#39;s World Cup giant slalom on the Hirschenkogel course Tuesday and Finland&#39;s Tanja Poutiainen regained the lead in the overall standings with a second-place finish.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova, Martina Hingis and Lleyton Hewitt easily advanced to the second round on Tuesday. Other early winners included No. 11 Patty Schnyder and No. 13 Nicole Vaidisova.
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World champions Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski came from behind to win the ice dance gold after performing a clean free programme in the Grand Prix final on Saturday.
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SEMMERING, Austria  - Marlies Schild completed a  double on Semmering's magic mountain Wednesday, winning a World  Cup slalom in convincing fashion after victory in Tuesday's  giant slalom.
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Mia Hamm and the rest of the Fab Five of women&#39;s soccer from the United States had just enough left in their thirtysomething legs for one more title, beating Brazil 2-1 on Thursday in extra time to win the Olympic gold medal in their final
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Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson beat Russian second seed Anna Chakvetadze 6-3, 7-5 at the WTA Diamond Games here on Thursday to set up a quarter-final with China's Li Na.
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Lindsey Kildow whooshed a long sigh of relief after earning her first major championship medal. Bode Miller shrugged after finishing 24th and losing his super-G title, then fled the scene.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova, fresh off her championship at the U.S. Open, defeated Australian qualifier Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-4 Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Wismilak International.
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Gabriel Hjertstedt captured the B.C. Open nine years ago to become the first Swede to win on the PGA Tour. Now, he's positioned for a repeat performance.