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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SANTA CATERINA VALFURVA, Italy -- Until the last skier in the women's downhill took off down the sunbathed course yesterday, the US Ski Team was poised to win its fifth medal in six races in these World Alpine Championships.
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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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Avalanches in the French Alps leave  three skiers dead and a fourth badly hurt, say emergency services.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta - As Bode Miller and Daron Rahlves were carving the texts of history with their first- and second-place men&#39;s World Cup downhill finishes in Beaver Creek Friday, Vail&#39;s own Lindsey Kildow was making some tracks of her own up north.
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Each year, more and more skiers and snowboarders trudge off the trail for an adventurer's rush.
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - The Empire struck back in  the men's Ski World Cup on Friday with Michael Walchhofer  winning the super-G as a trio of Austrians pushed overall  leader Bode Miller off the Val Gardena podium.
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At least four skiers died in avalanches in the French Alps as hopes faded for a Canadian couple missing since Sunday while snowboarding in Switzerland, emergency services said.
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L'azzurra domina slalom di Coppa del Mondo, 3/a la Gius
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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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Benjamin Raich of Austria held off teammate Rainer Schoenfelder and Giorgio Rocca of Italy on Sunday to win the first slalom of the World Cup season, while overall leader Bode Miller skied out for a second straight race.
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The menâs downhill, the marquee event at the Alpine skiing world championships, was postponed Saturday because of poor visibility, the latest meteorological glitch to disrupt the race series.
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Winter Sports Bode Miller missed a gate and failed to finish his second run, opening the door for Canada's Thomas Grandi to win a giant slalom race at Alta Badia, Italy, yesterday for his first victory in 12 seasons on the World Cup circuit. Austria's Benjamin Raich was second and Switzerland's Didier Cuche and Austria's Hermann Maier shared third. Miller's ...
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Sport: Tour de France: Colombian Juan Mauricio Soler wins stage nine on a brutal day in the Alps.
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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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Austria&#39;s Johann Grugger celebrates after winning the World Cup men&#39;s downhill race in Bormio, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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ARE, Sweden  - Weather gone mad may not be the reason why the world Alpine skiing championships are struggling to get started but it certainly is a hot topic threatening the very existence of the showcase winter sport.