Fri, 03/12/2010 - 22:14 by Inderjit Singh
Garmisch-Partenkirchen -- American Lindsey Vonn wrapped up her third consecutive overall World Cup championship by winning Friday's super-giant slalom in Germany.
Vonn won the super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen's Kandahar course in 1 minute, 19.3 seconds, 0.16 seconds faster than Austrian Elizabeth Goergl while Swiss skier Nadia Styger was third at 1:19.87
More important to the overall standings, German Maria Riesch was fourth, a result that gave Vonn an insurmountable 215-point lead with one race -- Saturday's slalom -- remaining.
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Mon, 03/01/2010 - 20:55 by Samia Sehgal
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Sun, 02/21/2010 - 12:38 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Whistler, British Columbia -- Austrian Andrea Fischbacher survived the difficult upper part of the course Saturday and pulled off a mild surprise by winning the Olympic super-giant slalom.
American Lindsey Vonn, the overall World Cup leader, gold medal winner in the downhill and the favorite for this race, finished third.
Vonn was the 17th skier down Whistler Mountain Saturday and her time of 1:20.88 put her in the lead. Her chief rival on the World Cup circuit, Maria Riesch of Germany, had already turned in her run, so it seemed as if Vonn was set to capture her second gold medal of the Vancouver Olympics.
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Fri, 02/19/2010 - 07:42 by harsheeb
Vancouver -- Lindsey Vonn of the United States took the lead Thursday after the downhill portion of the Olympic super combined.
One day after winning a gold medal in the downhill, Vonn returned to the same course and finished .33 of a second in front of good friend and rival Maria Riesch of Germany.
American Julie Mancuso, silver medalist in the downhill, was third.
In the super combined, competitors take part in a downhill run and then move to the slalom course for two runs. The times for those three efforts are combined to determine the winner.
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Thu, 02/18/2010 - 12:49 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Whistler, British Columbia -- Lindsey Vonn of the United States won the Olympic gold medal Wednesday in the women's downhill.
Vonn became the first American to win the event in the 17 times it has been contested.
American Julia Mancuso took the silver, giving the United States its first 1-2 finish in an Olympic alpine event in 26 years.
The bronze went to Elisabeth Goergl of Austria, who finished 1.45 seconds behind Vonn.
The icy downhill course took its toll, with five of the first 23 skiers falling.
Swedish star Anja Paerson posted intermediate times that appeared to have her heading for a silver medal, but she crashed heavily on the final jump.
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Thu, 02/18/2010 - 12:28 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Whistler, British Columbia -- Lindsey Vonn sped down an icy, dangerous slope Wednesday to become the first American woman to win an Olympic downhill gold medal.
Vonn, by far the best female downhill skier in the world over the past three years, was concerned only a week ago that she would not be able to compete in the Vancouver Games because of a deep shin bruise.
When it came time for the most important race of her career, however, nothing could stop her.
Vonn defeated fellow American Julie Mancuso by a half second and Austria's Elisabeth Goergl by almost a second and a half -- a huge margin in the world of downhill skiing.
It was the first 1-2 American finish in an Olympic alpine event in 26 years and only the third ever.
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Tue, 02/16/2010 - 10:00 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Whistler, British Columbia -- Lindsey Vonn turned in the fastest time in the first of two Olympic downhill training runs Monday but came away disappointed at the state of the course.
"It's the bumpiest course I have ever skied," said the American superstar, who is trying to overcome a bruised shin to uphold her role as downhill favorite.
"It's definitely not good for my leg."
The training runs were the first on the women's downhill course. The athletes had two such runs Monday, one before and one after the men's downhill event that was won by Didier Defago of Switzerland.
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Tue, 02/16/2010 - 09:52 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Vancouver, British Columbia -- American skiing stars Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn both had a successful day on the Olympic slopes Monday, although only Miller earned a medal.
Miller, criticized four years ago for an attitude that seemed to indicate he did not care about representing his country, won the third Olympic medal of his career by finishing with a bronze in the downhill.
Vonn, the World Cup leader and the pre-Olympic favorite to win the downhill and super-giant slalom, discovered that the deep shin bruise she suffered two weeks ago was not enough to keep her from going fast.
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Fri, 01/22/2010 - 22:23 by Inderjit Singh
Cortina D'Ampezzo) -- American Lindsey Vonn won her second consecutive super-giant slalom, taking Friday's race in Italy by a healthy two-thirds of a second.
Vonn covered the course at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, in 1 minute, 21.74 seconds, easily ahead of runner-up Swiss Fabienne Suter (1:22.41) and third-place Swede Anja Paerson (1:22.48).
The victory came on the heels of a super-G win 12 days ago and gave Vonn four podium appearances in four super-Gs this season. She easily leads the season-long super-G standings by 170 points over Suter.
Friday's results also boosted Vonn, the two-time defending World Cup champion, into the overall standings lead by 56 points over German Maria Riesch.
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Mon, 01/11/2010 - 11:21 by shalini.bahadur
Haus Im Ennstal, Austria -- American Lindsey Vonn tightened her hold on first-place in the World Cup standings Sunday with a super-G victory in Austria -- her third win in three days.
Vonn, of Vail, Colo., had won downhill events the previous two days.
"It's good to know that I can do it," Vonn said. "There was definitely a little bit more pressure today because everybody was wanting me to do the three in a row, and I wanted to do it myself, so it's just good to know that I can ski well under pressure ... ."
The U.S. star's winning time was 1:26.69; 2. Anja Paerson of Sweden was second in 1:27.22 and Nadia Fanchini of Italy and Martina Schild of Switzerland tied for third in 1:27.54.
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Mon, 01/11/2010 - 11:10 by shalini.bahadur
Haus Im Ennstal, Austria -- American Lindsey Vonn tightened her hold on first-place in the World Cup standings Sunday with a super-G victory in Austria -- her third win in three days.
Vonn, of Vail, Colo., had won downhill events the previous two days.
"It's good to know that I can do it," Vonn said. "There was definitely a little bit more pressure today because everybody was wanting me to do the three in a row, and I wanted to do it myself, so it's just good to know that I can ski well under pressure ... ."
The U.S. star's winning time was 1:26.69; 2. Anja Paerson of Sweden was second in 1:27.22 and Nadia Fanchini of Italy and Martina Schild of Switzerland tied for third in 1:27.54.
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Sat, 01/09/2010 - 09:33 by shalini.bahadur
Haus Im Ennstal, Austria -- Lindsey Vonn, testing out her bruised arm for the first time since a frightening fall in practice two weeks ago, won a World Cup downhill race Friday.
The American skiing star, needing some tuneups prior to the Olympics, was a winner in Austria, capturing the 26th World Cup race of her career and claiming her third downhill title of the season.
After her recent spill, Vonn had said she planned to take it easy until the Olympics, but eventually decided she needed the competition more than the rest.
"I needed this win today to get my confidence back on track and to feel like I could ski well again," said Vonn, who will be the favorite for the Olympic downhill gold medal next month in Canada.
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