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| Cooper win World Cup aerials event to clinch season title (AP) | 11/02, 2:12 |
| Australia's Jacqui Cooper wrapped up the World Cup aerials season title Sunday, winning her fifth event of the season Sunday. Cooper finished with 205.46 points to edge Belarus' Alla Tsuper (203.73). With two events left, Cooper has 620 points for a 215-point lead over second-placed Li Nina of China, the third-place finisher Sunday. |
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| Vonn heads home for mini vacation with share of overall World Cup lead (AP) | 10/02, 17:05 |
| Lindsey Vonn is heading home for a midseason vacation with five trophies in her suitcase and tied for the overall lead in the World Cup standings. The American skier is skipping Friday's slalom in Zagreb, Croatia, to spend time at her home in Park City, Utah, with her husband Thomas. The couple was married in September. |
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| Austrian skier Holaus injures head in super-G crash (AP) | 10/02, 15:45 |
| Austrian skier Maria Holaus was airlifted to a hospital with a head injury after falling during a women's World Cup super-G on Sunday. Holaus lost control on the upper portion of the Kandahar Banchetta course and hit the ground hard at full speed. She was taken by helicopter to the CTO Torino hospital in nearby Turin. |
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| Reinfried Herbst wins World Cup slalom; Miller fails to finish (AP) | 09/02, 12:15 |
| Reinfried Herbst put together the fastest times in both runs to win a men's World Cup slalom on Saturday. The Austrian beat Manfred Moelgg of Italy by 0.65 seconds on a sun-drenched Gudiberg course. Although he led by nearly half a second after the first run, Herbst did not hold back in the second heat and attacked the course all the way to post his second World Cup victory. |
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| Val d'Isere downhill reset for Kvitfjell in late February (AP) | 05/02, 14:48 |
| The men's World Cup downhill called off last week in Val d'Isere, France, was rescheduled for Feb. 29 in Kvitfjell, Norway. The race will take place a day before another downhill at the Norwegian resort, the International Ski Federation said Tuesday. The back-to-back downhills could help overall World Cup leader Bode Miller, who leads 2006 champion Benjamin Raich by 122 points. |
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| Bode Miller, others get day off after World Cup downhill canceled due to heavy snowfall (AP) | 02/02, 11:54 |
| Bode Miller and the rest of the downhill field got a day off after the World Cup race was canceled Saturday because of heavy snowfall. Course workers were unable to prepare the Face de Bellevarde piste for the event because of nearly 20 inches of snow. "We couldn't use the snowplows without damaging the piste," Val d'Isere organizational committee head Emmanuel Couder said in a statement. |
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