Kostelic wins first World Cup race in nearly two years
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Croatia&#39;s Janica Kostelic won her first World Cup race in nearly two years, charging through steady snow and choppy conditions to beat Anja Paerson by more than a second Saturday in this season&#39;s first World Cup slalom.
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American Bode Miller won his first World Cup super-giant slalom Sunday, making him the first man to open an Alpine World Cup season with victories in three different disciplines and just the fifth skier to win a World Cup race in all four disciplines.
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BORMIO, Italy Johann Grugger won his first World Cup race Wednesday, taking the downhill on the course that will host the upcoming world championships.
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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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Thomas Grandi of Canada won his first World Cup victory after 12 years of trying on Sunday after leader Kalle Palander crashed out of the second leg of a giant slalom in Alta Badia, Italy.
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World Cup leader Bode Miller won the slalom yesterday at Sestriere, Italy, to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season. Miller, of Franconia, N.H., won for the sixth time in 10 World Cup races by finishing two runs down the 2006 Olympic course in a combined 1 minute 39.03 seconds. ...
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado -- Norwegian Lasse Kjus won a World Cup giant slalom for the first time in eight years on Saturday. The 33-year-old, a former world and Olympic champion and a circuit regular since 1990
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Up-and-comer Tanja Poutiainen of Finland held off two of skiingâs giants, Swedenâs Anja Paerson and Croatiaâs Janica Kostelic, to win the giant slalom on Aspen Mountain Friday, the first of three World Cup races on Ajax this weekend.
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Calgary (Ski Press)-Canadaâs Thomas Grandi won his first World Cup victory Sunday, December, 19, 2004 in Alta Badia, Italy after first run leader, Kalle Palander of Finland crashed out of the second run of the December 19th giant slalom race.
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Janica Kostelic of Croatia beat Anja Paerson of Sweden Saturday to take her first World Cup race in nearly two years in Aspen of Colorado, the United States.
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American Marco Sullivan wins the downhill in Chamonix, France, to claim his first World Cup victory on Saturday, while teammate Bode Miller finishes seventh.
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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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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany  - Canadian Erik Guay collected his first World Cup victory on Saturday, winning the second Garmisch downhill under bright sunshine with a margin of half a second.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Austrian Stephan Goergl  won his first World Cup Alpine ski race with victory in a  super-G on Thursday, pushing American favorite Bode Miller into  an unaccustomed second place.
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VAL D'ISERE, France -- Bode Miller put his go-for-broke style temporarily in check yesterday and won a World Cup giant slalom for the second time this season.
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Erik Guay wins the downhill Saturday for his first World Cup victory and the first for Canadian men in 13 years.
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Austrian Stephan Goergl won his first World Cup Alpine ski race with victory in a super-G on Thursday, pushing American favorite Bode Miller into an unaccustomed second place.