Skiing: Val d'Isere races off
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The women's Alpine ski races scheduled for the French ski resort of Val d'Isere are written off because of warm weather.
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Bode Miller blew his downhill lead by skiing off course in the slalom, allowing Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway to win a men's World Cup super-combi in Beaver Creek, Colo., yesterday .
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Flachau, Austria (Ski Press)-Canadaâs Thomas Grandi tallied his second win in three days, stringing together giant slaloms in Alta Badia on Sunday and Flachau on Tuesday to score the only two wins of his World Cup career.
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ARE, Sweden  - Overcast skies hurt the highlight of the world Alpine skiing championships when the men's downhill scheduled for Saturday had to be postponed until Sunday.
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There appear to be big shifts at work in Alpine skiing, starting with the slow fade of Austriaâs Hermann Maier, the most accomplished active racer in the world.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Four-time Olympic medallist Stephan Eberharter announced his retirement from competitive skiing on Friday. In 16 seasons on the World Cup circuit, Eberharter won 29 races and four world
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VAL GARDENA, Italy (CP) - Michael Walchhofer and the Austrian &quot;Wunderteam&quot; restored skiing to its normal pecking order Friday.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Sweden's Andre Myhrer tamed the treacherous Birds of Prey piste on Sunday to win the second men's slalom of the World Cup season after several big names crashed out.
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Liechtenstein's Marco Buechel overcame a broken rib to win the first downhill of the men's Alpine skiing World Cup season yesterday in Lake Louise, Alberta, and deny Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis a historic victory.
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Avalanches killed at least five skiers in the Swiss and French Alps on Sunday following days of heavy snow, authorities said.
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By getting out of the gate slowly, Daron Rahlves has found himself back in the pack in a newer racing discipline that resembles motocross on skis.
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GILFORD, N.H. -- Like farmers and postal workers, ski resort operators take a fatalistic attitude toward the weather. And late last week, when several inches of rain was dumped on New England, it wasn't looking so good for what many resorts say is their largest grossing weekend.
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Winter sports His hip so sore he questioned whether he could ski, Bode Miller won a super-combined in Chamonix, France, yesterday and took over first place in the Alpine skiing World Cup overall standings. Miller, who was frustrated at finishing seventh in Saturday's downhill, won for the fourth time this season and catapulted from third to first in the standings, ...
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Stormy weather prevented the start of the Alpine Skiing World Championships on Sunday for the second day in a row.
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Norway&#39;s biathlon queen lost more grip on her reign Thursday. The world&#39;s top biathlon athletes gathered in Oslo for World Cup competition due to last through the weekend.
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Kalle Palander gets his third career giant slalom victory Sunday in Alta Badia, Italy, while American Ted Ligety skies the fastest second run to finish fifth.
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Slow through the flats and fast in the mountains -- that's just what some riders are predicting as the Tour de France enters the Alps.