Double celebration for Hosp and Schild in alpine skiing
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TARVISIO, Italy  - Austria had a double celebration on Friday with Nicole Hosp winning the final women's super-combined event of the Alpine ski season and Marlies Schild taking the World Cup in the discipline.
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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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Julia Mancuso added a silver medal to her growing collection and made US skiing history. Anja Paerson was golden again on her home slopes.
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SEMMERING, Austria -- Marlies Schild restored Austrian pride in the women&#39;s giant slalom and delighted the home supporters as she won a testing race in foggy conditions at Semmering.
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Thomas Grandi had his own cheering section in what he calls his second home when he skied to his first World Cup gold medal.
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ASPEN, Colorado  - Austria's Marlies Schild led after the first leg of a women's World Cup Alpine skiing slalom on Sunday.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's Marlies Schild took the slalom World Cup on Sunday with her sixth race win of the season.
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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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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Germany's Hilde Gerg  powered to victory on Saturday in the second of two World Cup  Alpine skiing downhills in Lake Louise.
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Austrian Marlies Schild savored her second victory of the Alpine ski season, winning a slalom on home snow in Semmering on Wednesday, when she followed Tuesday&#39;s giant slalom victory.
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BEAVER CREEK - Lasse Kjus and Hermann Maier got to party like it was 1999 Saturday on the Birds of Prey podium. The two graying World Cup giants, who shared a gold medal in super-G at the 1999 World Alpine
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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany  - World champion Mario Matt of Austria won a World Cup slalom race on Sunday with two classy runs down a steep and difficult course.
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MARLIES SCHILD completed a double on Semmering&#39;s magic mountain today, winning a World Cup slalom in convincing fashion after victory in yesterday&#39;s giant slalom.
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ARE, Sweden -- Switzerland's Daniel Albrecht won the combined at the world ski championships Thursday, with Bode Miller finishing sixth after leading the downhill portion of the event.
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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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German veterans Sven Fischer and Uschi Disl won the men's and women's pursuit events at a biathlon World Cup event on Saturday.
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Americans Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves took the top two spots in the marquee event of the Alpine world championships.