Sep 8 2008
Katrin Apel began her career at a young age as a cross-country skier, though failed to create much effect managing a best possible third in the junior World Championships. When the German failed to make a mark in the event she switched to...
Sep 8 2008
A resolve to win confronted a hazardous terrain but none could stop Anja Paerson from successfully defending her super G title at the Women’s Alpine Skiing World Championship - staying aloof of a victory for nearly a year now, the 25 year-old was...
Sep 8 2008
With a victory in the super-combined at Kvitfjell, the Austrian Benjamin Raich increased his overall World Cup lead while Aksel Lund Svindal bagging the season’s title in the event. Winning a spellbinding slalom race, clocking 2 minutes 21.22...
Sep 8 2008
Bode Miller injured his knee at the World Cup finals downhill event at Are’s Olympia course in the downhill event last year - fearing a recurrence he has decided to give up his downhill title at Are this time without competing. However, the...
Sep 8 2008
In a groundbreaking debut decision, the International Olympic Committee banned six Austrian athletes on account of doping violation. The judgment came in a year post the incident, a doping indignity - that marred the Turin Winter Olympics. The...
Sep 8 2008
To catch who’s crowned the ‘King of Skis’ you gotta travel to Japan this winter - it is only for the third time that the FIS Nordic World Ski Championship is scheduled outside Europe and for the first time in Asia. It will also be...
Sep 8 2008
Austrian champion Renate Goetschl setting the fastest time in the training session ahead of the final downhill event of the season has heightened her prospects for the Overall title. Goetschl has already won the Super-G and the downhill titles but...
Sep 8 2008
Austrian Marlies Schild, needed a mere eighth place in the second leg of the event to wrap the world title - the world silver medalist finished easily ahead of Sierra Nevada to bag the sixth win of the season and also the women’s World Cup slalom...
Sep 8 2008
Austria won the closing nations team event and knocked off hosts Sweden of the medals table at the World Alpine skiing championship - dominating the Super G and the slalom event. The Austrian contingents turned out the best in the contest, ending the...
Sep 7 2008
With host of domestic experience she is one of the most celebrated and nerve-racking performer in skeleton sledding in the world - and bagging the Igls skeleton at the World’s she has demonstrated her supremacy at the event. Anja Huber was just...