Garmisch and Partenkirchen were united to become one town during the 1930s Winter Olympics, while the year before the first cable car in Bavaria was inaugurated in honor of the first winter games.
A man clears snow off satellite dishes before the Women’s World Cup Super Giant skiing race in Val d’Isere, French Alps, December 15, 2012. (REUTERS/Robert Pratta) VAL D’ISERE, France, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The women’s World Cup Super-G scheduled to take place at Val d’Isere on Saturday was called off due to heavy snowfall. With […]
By Patrick Lang VAL D’ISERE, France, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Frenchman Alexis Pinturault began to fulfill his potential when the exciting young alpine skiing all-rounder won a men’s World Cup slalom in Val d’Isere on Saturday. The 21-year-old had claimed his first World Cup win in a city event in Moscow last winter but it […]
Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. wins the women’s super-combined with a victory in the second run of slalom in Val d’Isere.
Lindsey Vonn wins the women’s downhill at the World Cup in Val d’Isere.
Marcel Hirscher skis to victory in the slalom during the World Cup in Val d’Isere.
France’s Alexis Pinturault passes a gate during the first run of an alpine ski men’s world cup giant slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Shinichiro Tanaka) By Manuele Lang GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Gifted Frenchman Alexis Pinturault confirmed his all-round skills with a first Alpine ski World Cup giant slalom […]
United States’ Ted Ligety speeds down the course on his way to win the men’s super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, Wednesday, Feb.6, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) By Manuele Lang SCHLADMING, Austria, Feb 6 (Reuters) – American skier Ted Ligety picked the right occasion to win the first super-G of his […]
Lindsey Vonn (USA), crowned world champion in the discipline in Val d’Isere four years ago, tumbled down the Streciher piste and seriously hurt her right knee in a Super-G race taking place nearly four hours behind schedule.
By Patrick Lang SCHLADMING, Austria, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The Alpine skiing world championships got off to a bad start when top racer Lindsey Vonn was injured in a season-ending crash in controversial conditions in the opening women’s super-G on Tuesday. Slovenia’s Tina Maze, the runaway World Cup leader, kept her momentum to snatch her […]
By Manuele Lang WENGEN, Switzerland, Jan 18 (Reuters) – France’s Alexis Pinturault made the most of his all-round talent to clinch his third World Cup race in a men’s super-combined in Wengen on Friday. The 21-year-old, one of the most exciting prospects to emerge in the sport in recent years, outclassed his rivals in the […]
The U.S. XC Team makes history in Canada, another win for Lindsey Vonn in St. Moritz, Ted Ligety salvages a podium in Val d’Isere and an exclusive interview with Team SBX champs Nate Holland and Hagen Kearney.
By Patrick Lang MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO, Italy, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Austria’s Marcel Hirscher finished 2012 in style with his second victory of the winter in a floodlit slalom in Madonna di Campiglio, his last race of the year. The reigning overall World Cup champion won both runs and destroyed the field in the night’s […]
Thomas Fanara (FRA) got his first podium of the WC season when he finished with a time of 2:40.54, 1.23 seconds out of first place. Fanara finished 7th in the last GS at Val d’Isere.
By Manuele Lang VAL D’ISERE, France, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Four-times overall World Cup winner Lindsey Vonn, dejected after crashing out of a downhill race for the first time in five years, said on Saturday she was tired and had lost some self belief. In an interview with Reuters held after a World Cup super-giant […]
VAL d’ISERE, FRANCE (Dec. 14) – Leanne Smith parlayed an early start number into a career first Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium, finishing second in the Val d’Isere downhill behind Swiss winner Lara Gut. Smith, who started third, led four Americans into the top 10 on a shortened course after high winds forced a […]
By Manuele Lang VAL D’ISERE, France, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Lara Gut’s exceptional talent was rewarded at last when the gifted Swiss skier won her maiden World Cup downhill on Friday. Gut, who won a downhill silver medal at the age of 17 at the 2009 world championships in the same French resort – though […]
VAL D’ISERE, France (Dec. 9) – World Champion Ted Ligety battled soft snow and a shortened course to finish third in the Val d’Isere giant slalom behind race winner and reigning Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall and GS champ Marcel Hirscher of Austria. The podium kept Ligety in the World Cup GS driver’s seat […]
By Patrick Lang VAL D’ISERE, France, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Marcel Hirscher opened his own tally and gave the Austrian Alpine ski men’s team their first win of the season when he dominated a World Cup giant slalom on Sunday. The overall World Cup holder, who had been on the podium four times so far, […]
By Manuele Lang ST MORITZ, Switzerland, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Tina Maze increased her lead in the overall Alpine ski World Cup standings when she won her third victory in as many giant slaloms on Sunday. The Slovenian’s fourth win of the season put her on 677 points, ahead of Germany’s Maria Hoefl-Riesch by 234 […]
By Manuele Lang ST MORITZ, Switzerland, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Lindsey Vonn put the disappointment of her super-combined failure behind her to win Saturday’s World Cup Super-G in St Moritz. The American, who was eliminated from Friday’s super-combined in the Swiss resort after skidding out in the slalom leg, won in one minute and 2.71 […]
Ted Ligety of the U.S. celebrates in the finish area after skiing to first place in men’s World Cup giant slalom ski race in Beaver Creek, Colorado December 2, 2012. (REUTERS/Mike Segar) By Manuele Lang BEAVER CREEK, Colorado, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Ted Ligety was again far too strong for his rivals when he cruised […]
Lindsey Vonn of the USA wins the Overall World Cup, Tina Maze of Slovenia takes 2nd place, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany takes 3rd place on March 18, 2012 in Schladming, Austria. (Photo by Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images) Universal Sports is your destination for comprehensive coverage of the 2012 FIS Alpine World Cup. Get LIVE and […]
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