Raich Wins Opening Men's World Cup Slalom
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado  - Benjamin Raich won the  opening slalom of the men's World Cup season on Sunday after a  big mistake on the second leg relegated his Austrian team mate  and race leader Rainer Schoenfelder to third.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Austria's Benjamin Raich took the  lead in the men's combined at the world championships on  Thursday with a superb slalom run moving him ahead of  compatriot Michael Walchhofer.
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WENGEN, Switzerland  - Austria's Benjamin Raich  moved to within 198 points of overall World Cup leader Bode  Miller on Friday, after clinching victory in a restructured  combined discipline.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado - Stephan Goergl powered to victory in a World Cup super-G on Thursday, giving Austria its first win of the season.
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USA&#39;s Bode Miller slaloms past a pole on his way to win a men&#39;s World Cup slalom at Sestriere, Italy, Monday, Dec. 13, 2004.
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - Outsider Max Rauffer made German ski history, winning the first men&#39;s alpine World Cup downhill for the nation in a dozen years over an elite field down one of the circuit&#39;s classic pistes.
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Bode Miller from the United States clears a gate during the men&#39;s ski World Cup giant slalom race, on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in Soelden, Austria.
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Austria&#39;s Marlies Schild won her second World Cup event in as many days Wednesday, finishing first in the slalom. Schild won in a combined time of 1 minute, 35.49 seconds, delighting the crowd of about 15,000
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Italian Massimiliano Blardone wins the the opening World Cup giant slalom race of the season at Beaver Creek.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - Austria&#39;s Michaela Dorfmeister won the opening women&#39;s World Cup super giant slalom race of the season Sunday.
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Mario Matt of Austria won the slalom title by nearly two seconds at the world championships Saturday, and Bode Miller skied off course on the first run, tweaking his knee in the process.
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Denise Karbon of Italy won the season-opening World Cup giant slalom on Saturday, beating out Olympic giant slalom champion Julia Mancuso.
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Bode Miller became the first man to open a World Cup season with three victories in three disciplines, winning a super-giant slalom Sunday ahead of Hermann Maier.
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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia  - World champion Mario Matt took a 15-point lead over fellow Austrian Benjamin Raich in the slalom World Cup with victory in the discipline's penultimate race of the season on Sunday.
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WENGEN, Switzerland  - Austrian technical  specialist Benjamin Raich skied to his first World Cup combined  victory on Friday.
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World Cup leader Bode Miller won the slalom yesterday at Sestriere, Italy, to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season. Miller, of Franconia, N.H., won for the sixth time in 10 World Cup races by finishing two runs down the 2006 Olympic course in a combined 1 minute 39.03 seconds. ...
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's Marlies Schild took the slalom World Cup on Sunday with her sixth race win of the season.