Canmore skier strikes gold twice in three days
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CANMORE - Thomas Grandi will get a hero&#39;s welcome when he returns home Christmas Eve to the mountains west of Calgary after winning his second World Cup race in three days.
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New Zealand&#39;s star cyclist, Sarah Ulmer, last week rode under world record time twice in an hour during a secret training session in France.
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Once again yesterday, the US NorAm racers skied well enough over an icy giant slalom track at Sunday River to put five finishers in the top 10, with the bronze podium going to Chip Knight.
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Mark Nielsen of Calgary won a silver medal in the men's 100 metres while Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer, Alta., claimed bronze in the 500 Sunday in the season's fourth World Cup long track speed skating event.
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As of Saturday, the end of the swimming competitions, he had eight medals: Six gold and two bronze. In comparison, Canada has won two silver and a bronze.
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The American runner today became the third man in history to win the world championship sprint double.
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On a 3,500-foot-long course at the Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain on Sunday, Daron Rahlves won his first career skiercross race in six tries.
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Not to use too many technical gymnastics terms here, but Bruno Grandi started with a double-wienie. Then he went with an impressive buck pass.
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Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer, Alta., won his third 500-metre gold medal of the season Saturday during the fourth stop on the long track speed skating circuit.
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SANTA CATERINA, Italy  - Sweden's Anja Paerson won  the women's giant slalom at the world championships Tuesday to  claim her second gold medal of the competition.
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NICOLAS MASSU: Yeah, I think it&#39;s ââ I&#39;m so happy and I cannot believe this. Is too much in two days to win two medals, gold medals.
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Austrian Kate Allen won gold in the Olympic women&amp;apos;s triathlon Wednesday while American Susan Williams took the bronze. Allen was time in two hours, four minutes, 43.
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At a lake in Colorado last summer, 47-year-old Pleasanton water skier Richelle Matli was in such good form that she knew she had a shot at the national championships, only two weeks away in Texas.
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Anja Paerson of Sweden won a slalom for the first time this season Sunday while rival Tanja Poutiainen of Finland was third to capture the overall discipline title.
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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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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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Though she gave it her best shot to win a third medal at the World Alpine Championships yesterday, Julia Mancuso, the 20-year-old American sensation, could not break through the European slalom powerhouse of Croatia's Janica Kostelic, Finland's Tanja Poutiainen, and the Czech Republic's Sarka Zahrobska, who filled the podium after last night's second run.