Austria wins alpine team competition
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Austria won the team competition title Sunday and finished with the most final medals at the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
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Linus Gerdemann of Germany won Saturdayâs seventh stage of the Tour de France to take the overall leaderâs yellow jersey as the race entered the Alps.
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Anja Paerson of Sweden won the downhill Sunday, becoming the first skier ever to collect gold medals in all five disciplines at the Alpine Skiing World Championships.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Michaela Dorfmeister put  the Austrian women back on top with the team's first win of the  Alpine ski World Cup season on Sunday, providing the perfect  send-off as the circuit shifts back to Europe.
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Marlies Schild restored Austrian pride in the women's giant slalom on Tuesday, winning a difficult fog-bound race to the delight of her home crowd.
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ARE, Sweden  - Anja Paerson became the first skier to win world titles for all five Alpine skiing events when she blazed to downhill victory with another dream run at the Are championships on Sunday.
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Austria&#39;s Marlies Schild won her second World Cup event in as many days Wednesday, finishing first in the slalom. Schild won in a combined time of 1 minute, 35.49 seconds, delighting the crowd of about 15,000
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ASPEN, Colorado  - Marlies Schild powered to her second slalom victory in a row on Sunday to maintain Austria's early-season command of the women's World Cup.
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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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COLOGNE, Germany  - Hosts Germany won the handball world championship on Sunday with a lopsided 29-24 victory over Poland, which was a fitting final act to the most popular handball tournament ever held.
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Once again, the landlocked Swiss are masters of the ocean. The Alinghi team from Switzerland -- a country more often associated with Alpine skiing and mountain climbing -- successfully defended the venerable America's Cup yesterday, beating Emirates Team New Zealand by one second to win the best-of-nine series, 5-2.
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Marlies Schild of Austria gave her home fans something to cheer about with victory in the women&#39;s World Cup giant slalom race at Hirschenkogel.
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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy  - Renate Goetschl  captured her first Alpine ski World Cup race of the season on  Wednesday on one of her favorite pistes.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta -- Humbled at home, the mighty Austrian men arrived in Lake Louise for the first speed races of the Alpine World Cup campaign eager to flex their muscles and reaffirm their nation&#39;s status as the ski world&#39;s superpower.
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SANTA CATERINA, Italy  - Croatia's Janica Kostelic  claimed her second gold medal of the world Alpine ski  championships with victory in the women's downhill on Sunday.
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ARE, Sweden  - Austria took a commanding lead in Sunday's closing nations team event at the world Alpine skiing championships by dominating the super-G heats.
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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.