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Fenninger takes Vonn’s super-G lead with 2 wins in Bulgaria

BANSKO, Bulgaria With less than three weeks of competition left, Anna Fenninger is on a roll. The Olympic champion from Austria overtook Lindsey Vonn in the super-G sta...

DATE: Mar 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Vonn criticizes FIS after racing in fog in Bulgaria

BANKSO, Bulgaria – Lindsey Vonn criticized the International Ski Federation Monday for allowing skiers to race in foggy conditions in Bulgaria. The 30-year-old American, who misse...

DATE: Mar 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Fenninger wins Alpine combined World Cup

BANSKO, Bulgaria – Anna Fenninger of Austria kept up the pressure on overall leader Tina Maze with victory in the women’s Alpine combined World Cup race in fog-hit Bansko on Sunday. ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Hirscher continues giant slalom dominance; American Ligety 4th

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Overall leader Marcel Hirscher claimed his fourth consecutive World Cup giant slalom victory with the discipline’s third-biggest winning margin on Sunday. ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Austria sweeps again

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany Hannes Reichelt led the second Austrian sweep in as many weekends by winning a shortened World Cup downhill on the Kandahar slope Saturday. ...

DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Sports

Staying the course: It’s a snow-brainer

Maybe they knew it was coming. Or, maybe, it was that there had already been three weeks of good golf weather prior to the course’s opening – golfers were more than ready for the season to s...

DATE: Feb 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Sports

Austria’s Mayer wins super-G for weekend sweep

SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria – A year after his surprise win in the Olympic downhill, Matthias Mayer is starting to follow up his success on the World Cup circuit. The Austrian w...

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

American teen Shiffrin wins World Cup slalom to top standings

MARIBOR, Slovenia – Mikaela Shiffrin defied the pouring rain to comfortably earn her 12th career slalom victory Sunday, taking sole possession of the women’s World Cup record for most wins i...

DATE: Feb 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Olympic champion Mayer leads Austrian downhill sweep

SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria – In the space of two weeks, the Austrian downhill team has gone from “historical disaster” to a clean sweep of the podium Olympic champion Matthias ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Shiffrin 5th in giant slalom; Vonn leads, then stumbles

MARIBOR, Slovenia Giant slalom world champion Anna Fenninger used her 10th career World Cup victory to give the fight for the overall title new impetus. The defending c...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

For U.S., success of ’15 ski worlds to be determined

By Brian S. Peterson Herald Sports Editor Maybe it was the sullen winter sky that final day. Or that the home-team hopefuls quietly would disappear into the snow and ha...

DATE: Feb 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Americans end home world championships with 5 medals

BEAVER CREEK – Bode Miller crashing and slicing his leg in what possibly could be his last race. Lindsey Vonn breaking into tears with all the pressure weighing on her. Ted Ligety and Mikael...

DATE: Feb 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports