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Austrians placed first and third Friday in the ladies' super-combined race at the FIS Ski World Championships in France. Kathrin Zettel won the gold medal and Elisabeth Gorgl the bronze while Switzerland's Lara Gut squeezed into second place after American Lindsey Vonn was disqualified for missing a gate. Zettel was timed at 2:20.13 after a solid performance in the slalom portion of the race and a sizzling downhill run. Gut came in at 2:20.69. Germany's Maria Reisch, another of the pre-race...

German star Maria Riesch sped to her fourth straight World Cup slalom victory Sunday in Maribor, Slovenia. Riesch, the overall cup points leader, came in ahead of Austrian Kathrin Zettel, who was second, and Finland's Tanja Poutiainen who came in third. Lindsey Vonn of Vail, Colo., finished in a fourth-place tie with Anja Paerson of Sweden. Riesch is 85 points ahead of Poutiainen in the overall points race.

Austrian Kathrin Zettel raced to her fourth World Cup giant slalom win Sunday in Semmering, Austria. Zettel's winning time was 2:10.90, less than a second ahead of Manuela Moelgg of Italy. Swiss skier Lara Gut was third. Julia Mancuso of the United States, the reigning Olympic giant slalom champion, finished in sixth place, her best result on the World Cup circuit this season. The American star has missed time on the slopes because of injuries. My body feels good. It's definitely getting...

By Erik Kirschbaum OFTERSCHWANG, Germany (Reuters) - Triple Olympic champion Janica Kostelic battled through a fever and removed any doubts about her form by winning a women's slalom on Sunday, the final World Cup race before the Turin Games. The Croatian had not even qualified for the second leg of a giant slalom on Saturday after a disastrous first leg, but she recovered to win Sunday's slalom with a superb second run. With her victory, Kostelic became only the second woman after...

LIENZ, Austria (Reuters) - Sweden's Anja Paerson took a narrow halfway lead following the first run of Wednesday's Alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom race. The 24-year-old overall World Cup champion hurtled down the narrow Schlossberg slope in a time of one minute, 5.99 seconds, to put her 0.06 seconds ahead of Slovenia's Tina Maze. Austria's Kathrin Zettel maintained hopes of a home victory after finishing the first run in third place, 0.19 seconds behind Paerson, while compatriots...

By Jan Korselt SPINDLERUV MLYN, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Croatian Janica Kostelic added a missing piece to her honors collection on Wednesday, winning her first giant slalom victory of the Alpine ski World Cup with a late charge. Though she was the 2002 Olympic champion in the discipline, has twice been overall World Cup champion and had collected 21 previous wins on the circuit, the Croatian had never won a giant slalom in the season-long competition. "This is one of the special...

By Steve Keating ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - Sweden's Anja Paerson produced a blazing second run to claim the season's first World Cup slalom on Sunday, pushing her great rival Janica Kostelic into second place by just 0.03 seconds. Riding the momentum from a second place in Saturday's giant slalom, Paerson got her bid for a third consecutive overall crown on track by clocking a winning two-run combined time of one minute 36.01. It was the Swede's first win of the season and the 27th...

ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - Spain's Maria Jose Rienda Contreras won a women's World Cup giant slalom on Saturday in a combined time of one minute 57.17 seconds, according to provisional results. Sweden's Anja Paerson was second in 1:57.51 with Austrian Kathrin Zettel third in 1:57.53.

ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - Spain's Maria Jose Rienda Contreras led after the opening leg of a World Cup women's giant slalom Saturday while Sweden's overall champion Anja Paerson looked poised to end an early season slump. Contreras, winner of two giant slaloms last year, clocked a time of 58.37 seconds down the Ruthie's Run piste in bright sunshine to cross the line 0.10 of a second quicker than Austrian Nicole Hosp. "I didn't ski well, I made lots of mistakes but the slope is...

By Mark Ledsom SOELDEN, Austria (Reuters) - Finland's Tanja Poutiainen took a first-run lead in the opening race of the Alpine ski World Cup season on Saturday. The 25-year-old giant slalom and slalom World Cup champion tore down the giant slalom course on Soelden's Rettenbach glacier in a time of one minute 10.83 seconds. Last season's overall World Cup champion Anja Paerson of Sweden was tied for second place with Slovenia's Tina Maze, with both women trailing Poutiainen by 0.47...