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Ski Headlines for March 16, 2008

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Canadian Alpine Ski Team ends 2007/08 World Cup season sixth in Nation’s Cup
Fog and rain force cancellation of final event at World Cup Finals
A combination of rain and fog forced the cancellation of today’s team event, bringing the 2008 FIS World Cup Finals in Bormio, ITA to an end.
Led by Britt Janyk’s (Whistler, BC) bronze in the overall Ladies downhill standings, Canada ended the 2007/08 World Cup season sixth in the Nation’s Cup standings with 3637 points. Austria led the way with 13560 points followed by Switzerland, Italy, the United States and France. And Canada finished third in super G points with 1323, behind Austria (3,323) and Switzerland (1,832).

Estonian PM Competes In Ski Racing In Bolu
Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, who is in Turkey on a formal visit, is racing in Anadolu Ski Marathon in Gerede town of Black Sea province of Bolu.

Miller the alpine king, but future is still uncertain
World Cup ski king Bode Miller left question marks hanging over his entire vision of the sport after finally getting his hands on the coveted overall crown here Sunday.
Miller dominated the series with 1409 points, with Austrian Benjamin Raich, the 2006 champion, finishing in second place on 1298 and Swiss Didier Cuche a close third on 1263.

Our young racers deserve support
The finish line might as well have been a million miles away, so slim were her chances of crossing it. She’d just ripped through a fast flush and was two gates away from the electronic beam when, as sometimes happens when you give it your all, she got wide of the next gate, body going one way, skis the other and only a miracle could keep her from falling.

Bode Miller wins overall World Cup skiing title

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Two years after an Olympic crash and burn at Turin, America is suddenly mountain tops in Alpine ski racing.

Bode Miller, the go-it-alone typhoon, who split from the U.S. Ski Team last spring with both sides citing irreconcilable differences, scored a victory for independence Thursday when a 12th-place finish in super giant slalom clinched his second overall title at the World Cup Finals in Bormio, Italy.

Ski Racing News for January 27, 2008

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US at the double as skiers Miller, Sullivan top podium
Europe’s skiing elite were pushed into the shadows here Sunday as Bode Miller made sure the USA grabbed a rare double on the men’s World Cup circuit.

Marlies Schild wins her fourth slalom World Cup women’s ski race
Marlies Schild of Austria clinched her fourth World Cup slalom ski race of the season Sunday.
Schild completed the Ofterschwang course in a combined time of one minute 40.85 seconds. Sweden’s Therese Borssen was second, 0.42 seconds behind. Overall World Cup leader Nicole Hosp of Austria was third.

Outdoor Sports
For High School Skiers, 3 Leagues of Their Own
As if on cue, sugary snow began sprinkling the slopes at Mountain Creek Ski Resort just a half-hour before the first race of the Sussex County Interscholastic League ski season.

Winter X Games
For Rahlves, No Longer Man Against Mountain
By getting out of the gate slowly, Daron Rahlves has found himself back in the pack in a newer racing discipline that resembles motocross on skis.

Quebec’s Marquis skis to moguls bronze
Vincent Marquis of Quebec City captured a bronze medal in Saturday’s World Cup freestyle moguls competition at Ski Mont Gabriel resort in Ste-Adele, Que.

François Bourque leads Canadians in World Cup super combined
François Bourque (New Richmond, QC) finished 21st to lead the Canadians in Chamonix, FRA at the fourth super combined race of the 2007/08 alpine World Cup season.

Bode Miller Breaks American World Cup Wins Record With 28 Victories

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Bode Miller, four-time World Champion Alpine Skier, won his 28th World Cup race today in Kitzbuehel, Austria giving him the all-time American World Cup wins record. The record, previously held by Phil Mahre, set in 1984, has been in Bode’s sights since the beginning of the current 2007-2008 race season. Continue reading ‘Bode Miller Breaks American World Cup Wins Record With 28 Victories’

World Champion Skier Bode Miller Ties American World Cup Wins Record

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Bode Miller, 4-Time World Champion ski racer, won his 27th World Cup race yesterday in Wengen, Switzerland tying Phil Mahre’s all-time American World Cup wins record. Mahre held the American World Cup record of 27 wins since 1984. This win makes Bode the 8th winningest racer in the history of the sport dating back 41 years to 1967. Continue reading ‘World Champion Skier Bode Miller Ties American World Cup Wins Record’