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Vonn's injury still playing on her mind (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 4, 2010, 7:51 am] With six weeks until her first race at the Vancouver Olympics, Lindsey Vonn is trying to stop worrying about her bruised left arm. The reigning overall World Cup champion returned to the U.S. team's Austrian base in Zell am See on Monday to get some rest ahead of the speed races in Haus im Ennstal this week. Vonn misses gate and loses overall lead (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 4:42 pm] With her arm in a brace and her hand aching, Lindsey Vonn missed a slalom gate and lost her overall lead in the World Cup standings. Her mistake came at the 15th gate during the second run Sunday, and she did not finish a race won by Sandrine Aubert of France. Vonn, the two-time defending overall champion, was skiing with a brace on her left arm and her pole taped to her hand after bruising a bone... Roenning, Majdic win sprints (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 12:15 pm] Eldar Roenning of Norway and Petra Majdic of Slovenia won the 1.6-kilometer sprints Sunday on the concluding leg of the cross country Tour de Ski in Germany. Roenning left Norwegian teammate and overall World Cup leader Petter Northug 2.1 seconds behind in the classic-style race. Axel Teichmann of Germany was third, 3.1 second behind. Schlierenzauer wins 3rd leg of Four Hills (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 9:51 am] Gregor Schlierenzauer won the third leg of the prestigious Four Hills ski jumping tournament Sunday to go top of the overall World Cup standings. In his native Innsbruck, the 19-year-old Schlierenzauer earned 251.1 points from the two jumps to land his 28th World Cup win. Simon Ammann of Switzerland was second with 237.8 points, Janne Ahonen of Finland third with 237.4. Spillane wins Nordic combined event (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 8:55 am] Johnny Spillane of the United States clinched his second World Cup victory Sunday when he won a Nordic combined event ahead of Felix Gottwald of Austria. Spillane, the 2003 sprint world champion, finished the morning ski jumping portion in second place and began the 10-kilometer cross country race with a two-second handicap but won the event in 28 minutes, 13.3 seconds, 30.8 seconds ahead of... Aubert wins World Cup slalom; Vonn doesn't finish (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 7:37 am] Sandrine Aubert of France has won a women's World Cup slalom for her second win of the season, and overall World Cup leader Lindsey Vonn didn't finish. Aubert posted the fastest second-run to finish in an aggregate of 2 minutes, 0.36 seconds on Sunday to record her fourth career victory. First-run leader Kathrin Zettel of Austria was 0.43 seconds back in second. Sandrine Aubert of France wins World Cup slalom (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 6:53 am] Sandrine Aubert of France won a women's World Cup slalom Sunday for her second win of the season. Aubert posted the fastest second-run time to finish in an aggregate 2 minutes, 0.36 seconds to record her fourth career victory. Kathrin Zettel of Austria, who led after the opening leg, was 0.43 seconds back in second. Zettel leads World Cup slalom after 1st run (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 4:50 am] Kathrin Zettel of Austria led a women's World Cup slalom race after the opening leg Sunday. Zettel finished her run on the Crveni Spust course in 59.26 seconds to edge teammate Marlies Schild by 0.03 seconds. "I am very happy with this run," said Zettel, who started first. "Although there are sections of the course where I didn't push it to the maximum." Slalom world... Zettel leads women's World Cup slalom (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 3, 2010, 4:01 am] Kathrin Zettel of Austria led a women's World Cup slalom race after the opening leg Sunday. Zettel finished her run on the Crveni Spust course in 59.26 seconds to edge teammate Marlies Schild by 0.03 seconds. Slalom world champion Maria Riesch of Germany was 0.22 back in third. Overall World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn, still hampered by a bruised left arm, had 1.71 seconds to make up in the... Vonn to ski with arm injury in slalom in Croatia (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 2, 2010, 3:07 pm] With her arm in a brace and a sluggish course waiting, Lindsey Vonn will try to bolster her lead in the overall standings in a World Cup slalom Sunday. Warm weather and heavy rain Saturday damaged the Crveni Spust course on Sljeme hill. Organizers anticipate the race will be held, with temperatures expected to drop overnight and machine-made snow to be added to the course. Vonn to nurse arm injury in World Cup slalom race (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 2, 2010, 12:45 pm] If Lindsey Vonn is to collect the biggest paycheck in women's skiing at a World Cup slalom race on Sunday, she will have to overcome an arm injury and an expected sluggish course as well as her rivals. Warm weather and heavy rain on Saturday damaged the Crveni Spust course on Sljeme hill. However, organizers believe the race will still be staged as temperatures were expected to drop overnight... Manninen wins Nordic combined event (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 2, 2010, 11:45 am] Hannu Manninen of Finland earned his second victory of the season by winning the Nordic combined event Saturday ahead of Felix Gottwald of Austria. Manninen came from behind to cross the line first in the 10-kilometer cross country race after placing eighth in the ski jumping portion. The Finn clocked 27 minutes, 38.6 seconds. Northug wins 15K race at Tour de Ski (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 2, 2010, 10:40 am] Petter Northug of Norway edged Maxim Vylegzhanin of Russia by one-tenth of a second to win the 15-kilometer classic race on Saturday in the cross country Tour de Ski. The narrow victory also stretched Northug's overall World Cup lead and put him ahead in the tour standings. The Tour de Ski consist of eight races in 10 days in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic. Norway's Northug wins 15K race at Tour de Ski (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 2, 2010, 10:17 am] Petter Northug of Norway edged Maxim Vylegzhanin by one-tenth of a second to win the 10-kilometer classical cross country race Saturday at the Tour de Ski. Northug extended his overall World Cup lead and put him ahead in the tour standings. The Tour de Ski consist of eight races in 10 days in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic. Majdic, Northug win prologue races at Tour de Ski (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 1, 2010, 12:15 pm] World Cup leader Petter Northug of Norway won the 3.7-kilometer prologue Friday of the Tour de Ski, and Petra Majdic of Slovenia took the women's 2.8-kilometer race. Northug crossed the line in 7 minutes, 37.4 seconds. Marcus Hellner of Sweden was next in 7:38.2 and Axel Teichmann of Germany, last season's winner of the event, took third in 7:39.4. Schlierenzauer wins 27th career World Cup event (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 1, 2010, 9:55 am] Gregor Schlierenzauer won the second stop of the Four-Hill Tour on Friday by beating Austrian teammate Wolfgang Loitzl. Schlierenzauer collected 277.7 points for jumps of 136.5 meters and 137.5 meters in the World Cup event to edge Loitzl, last year's tour winner who had 277.5 points after landing both times at 135 meters. Schlierenzauer wins 2nd stop of Four-Hill Tour (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: January 1, 2010, 9:45 am] Gregor Schlierenzauer won the second stop of the Four-Hill Tour on Friday by beating last season's tour winner, Wolfgang Loitzl. Schlierenzauer collected 277.7 points for jumps of 136.5 meters and 137.5 meters to edge his Austrian teammate, who had 277.5 points. Loitzl landed both times at 135 meters. Olympic champion Hoffman retires after suspension (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: December 31, 2009, 1:00 pm] Former Olympic cross country ski champion Christian Hoffmann retired from the sport Thursday after Austria's national anti-doping agency provisionally suspended him for his alleged involvement in blood doping. "I won't have a chance now to qualify (for the Vancouver Olympics)," Hoffmann told the Austria Press Agency. Olympic champion Hoffmann retires after suspension (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: December 31, 2009, 1:00 pm] Former Olympic cross country ski champion Christian Hoffmann retired from the sport Thursday after Austria's national anti-doping agency provisionally suspended him for his alleged involvement in blood doping. "I won't have a chance now to qualify (for the Vancouver Olympics)," Hoffmann told the Austria Press Agency. Olympic ski champion suspended for doping (AP) [Yahoo! Sports: December 31, 2009, 10:43 am] Austria's national anti-doping agency has provisionally suspended 2002 Olympic cross country ski champion Christian Hoffmann for his alleged involvement in blood doping. NADA said Thursday that Hoffmann has been banned from all competitions with immediate effect until a hearing by the agency's disciplinary committee has taken place. |