France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Switzerland's Carlo Janka won an alpine men's World Cup giant slalom race here on Sunday, his third World Cup triumph in as many days after earlier victories in downhill and super combined. World Cup overall leader Janka, who started last in the final run, won with a combined total two-run time of 2mins, 29.44secs to defeat Austrian Benjamin Raich by .47 of a second. Norway's Aksel Lund...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Beaver Creek, Colorado - Carlo Janka kept his cool in the slalom portion on Friday to claim his third career World Cup skiing win, in a super-combined race. Janka, 23, led a Swiss one-two from Didier Defago while fancied Austrian Benjamin Raich finis...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis earned the second World Cup victory of his career Sunday by capturing the first Super-G of the season. Osborne-Paradis flashed down the course in a time of one minute, 32.93 seconds to finish ahead of a pair of Austrians Benjamin Raich and Michael Walchhofer. "Wow, did anybody else expect this? I didn't," Osborne-Paradis said. "I think BetWin.com...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... running cleanly and down the fault line and it worked out. It worked out really well."Austria's Benjamin Raich finished second, 0.24 seconds behind Osborne-Paradis. Austria's Michael Walchhofer was third.Ted Ligety was the top American, finishing eighth in 1:33.87. Andrew Weibrecht was 12th, and Marco Sullivan finished 15th.Canada's John Kucera broke his left leg in a crash and was...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... in a downhill in March in Kvitfjell, Norway. Osborne-Paradis held off an Austrian challenge, with Benjamin Raich coming second on 1:33.17 and Michael Walchhofer third on 1:33.55. Kucera, the downhill world champion, had to be taken away by helicopter. Canadian team officials were quoted as fearing a fracture in his lower leg, two and a half months ahead of the Vancouver Olympics....
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... and down the fall line and it worked out. It worked out really well."The stiffest challenger was Benjamin Raich of Austria, who finished 0.24 seconds back to claim second place. Countryman Michael Walchhofer was third.It's the second career World Cup victory for Osborne-Paradis, who won a downhill in Norway last March, and the first trip to the medal stand by a Canadian ski racer...
