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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Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Mara Santangelo of Italy, 6-1, 6-2, to the put the Russians ahead, 2-0, in the top team event in womenâs tennis.
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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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San Francisco and St. Louis worked hard to force overtime, then pulled off upsets. Minnesota let up and blew a lead, then pulled off a victory in the extra period.
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Aksel Svindal ha vinto la mediaglia d'oro nello slalom gigante dei Mondiali di Aare, in Svezia. Il n...
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ATHENS - Russian Yelena Slesarenko deprived Hestrie Cloete of the high jump gold medal by soaring to the title with a display bordering on perfection.
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Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes finished second on her return to action in the final Golden League meet of the year.
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SWEDEN&#39;S Annika Sorenstam (right) clinched her 10th worldwide win of another superb year with a sudden-death play-off victory over Cristie Kerr in the ADT Tour Championship at Trump International in Florida.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's gold-medal winning ski team produced another winner on Saturday when Michaela Kirchgasser won her first World Cup victory in a giant slalom.
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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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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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Anja Paerson of Sweden won her second straight world title in the women's super-giant slalom Tuesday and American Lindsey Kildow captured silver for her first world championship medal.
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - Olympic champion Benjamin Raich stepped up his challenge to world gold medallist Aksel Lund Svindal with the fastest run in the first leg of a World Cup giant slalom race on Saturday.
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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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Both Lyon and Manchester United&#39;s Ruud van Nistelrooy struck four times in Group D of the Champions League on Wednesday as the French champions downed Fenerbahce 4-2 while the Dutch star&#39;s goals saw United to a 4-1 victory over Sparta Prague.
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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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Il norvegese Akel Svindal ha vinto lo Slalom gigante di Coppa del Mondo di Soelden, gara che ha aper...