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John Teller (USA) finished the Qaurter final heat in 4th place and finished the overall competition 14th. Teller finished 1st last month at the ski cross in Megeve.
Victor Oehling Norberg (SWE) won the men’s final heat in a race that was close all the way to the finish line. Norberg sits in 5th in the overall standing is 166 points behind leader Alex Fiva (SUI).
Kelsey Sewra help Canada picked up 3 medals on the day after winning a close final heat. Serwa was also on the podium last week after finishing 2nd.
Sabrina Weilharter (GER) went down in the quarter finals of the Women’s 3rd heat. The crash happened right at the finish and Weilharter had to be carried away.
Florian Eigler (GER) looked to be making a move into 3rd place but lost his balance during a jump and landing backward smacking the back of his head into the snow.
Oskars Melbardis (LAT) drives his sled into 1st with a great second run, which helps him claim 2nd place for the season.
Alexander Zubkov (RUS) gets his seventh podium of the season, his first 3rd place, which helps cement him as the World Cup winner this season.
The upcoming Olympic track continues to give trouble to Olympic champ Steven Holcomb (USA) who took 12th in 2-Man and now 11th in 4-Man, he finishes 6th for season.
Racing in the 13th heat, snowboarders took a hard crash into one another going into the finish.
Michela Moiloli (ITA) beat out all the competition of the day earning 1000 points. Moiloli was 9th in her previous Snowboardcross at Blue Mountain.
Faye Gulini (USA) was the top american of the day finishing with 320 points. Gulini finished 10th in her previous Snowboardcross at Blue Mountian.
In a dramatic race with a crash at the finish, Alessandro Haemmerle (AUT) emerged with the win earning 1,000. American Alex Deibold was close behind in 2nd place.
Aerialists ski off 2-4 meter jumps, usually built of wood, sometimes metal and then covered with snow, that propel them up to 6 meters in the air (which can be up to 20 meters above the landing height).
Snowboard cross (SBX) is a snowboard competition in which a group of snowboarders (usually four) start simultaneously atop an inclined course, then race to reach the finish line first.
American sliders Noelle Pikus-Pace and Katie Uhleander talk about their 1-2 podium finish.
Noelle Pikus-Pace (USA) gets the win in the last race of the season and on the future Olympic track by .11 seconds, she finishs the season ranked 11th.
In the last race of the season Marion Thees (GER) finishes .19 second off the podium, but scores enough points to win the World Cup by only four points.
Katie Uhlander (USA) slips .11 second behind her teammate Pikus-Pace to get 2nd, it’s her 4th podium of the season in which she finishes in 3rd.
In the first race on the upcoming Olympic track, Beat Hefti (SUI) wins both runs, taking the win by .30 seconds, and finishing the season in 11th.
On the future Olympic track Lyndon Rush (CAN) misses the podium by .25 seconds, but it was enough to win the World Cup by 54 points.
On the future Olympic track Lyndon Rush (CAN) misses the podium by .25 seconds, but it was enough to win the World Cup by 54 points.
Racing on the upcoming Olympic track Cory Butner with Johnny Quinn finish in 9th (8th for the season), while Steven Holcomb was down in 12th (4th for the season).
The halfpipe competition takes place in a half-cylinder-shaped course dug deep into the hill. Using speed gained on the slope, skiers come up over the rim of the pipe and perform acrobatic aerial tricks.
With all the pressure riding on him as the last skier down the hill, Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) pulled of the win, finishing with a score of 25.93. Kingsbury has won all 4 of his previous Moguls.
Russian skier Alexandr Smyshlyaev took a hard fall on the 2nd jump of the final heat. Although he was in a lot of pain, he was fortunately able to ski off on his own.
Racing bib number 3, Patrick Deneen finished with a score of 24.96. Deneen has finished in the top 10 of his previous 7 races, including 4 podium spots.
Last year’s reigning points champ Hannah Kearney (USA) proved that she is still the best, finishing with a point total of 24.74. Kearney also took 1st place at the Moguls in Deer Valley.
Eliza Outtrim (USA) finished the 2nd final with a score of 23.89, 1.15 points behind fellow american Hannah Kearny. Outtrim has been on the podiumom in all 3 of her previous Moguls.
Elana Meyers (USA) takes 2nd in the last race of the season, .13 seconds out of first. She finishes the season the top American in 6th place.
The current World and Olympic champ Kaillie Humphries (CAN) takes third in the last race of the season but it’s enough to win her the Cup by 162 ponits.
Sandra Kiriasis (GER) gets the final win of the season by .14 seconds as she finishes the season 2nd in the world cup.
In the last heat of the season, John Daly (USA), finished the WC season strong with a time of 155.59, just .07 seconds off the podium. Daly was 4th after the first run and but failed to gain any ground on the top 3 spots in his 2nd run.
In the last heat of the season, Martins Dukurs (LAT) showed his dominance once again, finishing with a time of 1:54.12. Dukurs won an astounding 8 out of 9 WC races this season and picked up his 25th career WC win.
Ellery Hollingsworth (USA) just misses the podium by 3.5 points.
Kelly Clark leads the American team with the win scoring 88.25 points, it’s her third podium and second win this season.
Scott Lago (USA) pickes up his second podium finish of the year, 7 points out of first.
Taku Hiraoka (JPN) the only one to score in the 90′s, gets the win by 5.75 points, taking his second podium and first win of the season.
In the final pairing, Marion Kreiner (AUT) took both runs for the win over Amelie Kober (GER)/ This was her first win of the season.
In the final pairing, Ingemar Walder (AUT) couldn’t cut a break, going down twice and giving the win to countrymen Andreas Prommegger.
The course for the half-pipe events is a snowy chute reminiscent of a pipe that has been split in two along its length.
The two snowboarders start on identical parallel courses, featuring a large number of sharp turns, and try to get to the finish first.
Just when it seemed like the Russians were done for, they managed to rally back in the lap to earn a close victory over the Netherlands team. Russia finished with a final time of 6:53.585.
The women of Team USA finished with a time of 4:17.828, narrowly beating Japan by .162 seconds.
After wining the 500m yesterday, Charles Hamelin managed to win the 1000m today. Hamelin made his way from the back of the pack to the front finishing with a time of 1:26.957.
Alyson Dudek (USA) finished with a time of 45.422, beating 2nd place Yara Van Kerkhof by.077. Dudek also helped team USA win the 3000m Relay B Final.
Park Seung-Hi (KOR) finished with a time of 1:30.553, beating out Christie(GBR) by .204. Seung-Hi took home 2 bronze medals at the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver.
The 19 year old Wu Danjing finished with a time of 41.702, beating 2nd place Yu Jiyang by .112 seconds. Danjing finished 2nd in the 500m World Cup Sochi last year.
Mona-Lisa Malvalehto and teammate Anne Kylloenen break down the tactics they used to keep their stamina throughout the race.
Dmitriy Japarov and Maxim Vylegzezhanin (RUS) got off to an early lead out the gate and never looked back. The two won by an amazing 18.44 seconds, finishing with a time of 24.12.38.
Mona-Lisa Malvalehto and teammate Anne Kylloenen (FIN) finished with a final time of 17:06.95, beating team Russia by 5.52. Malvalehto won the sprint WC event last month at Liberec.
Sochi, the venue of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, is on the shores of the Black Sea, next to the Caucasus mountains in Russia.
The ISU World Cup Short Track is held both in individual distances for ladies and men, and in relays. The competition program differs from that of the ISU European & World Short Track Championships, where the winner is chosen by the allround system.
Sochi, the venue of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, is on the shores of the Black Sea, next to the Caucasus mountains in Russia.
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