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Schmidhofer sneaks up on big names to take World Championship Super G

Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer is the new Women's Super G World Skiing champion as the 2017 championships finally get under way in snowbound St Moritz.

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Ski flying and St Moritz in this week's 'Gravity'

Snowtime in St Moritz watch 'Gravity'

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Austria's Stefan Kraft a high-flyer in Oberstdorf

Austria's Stefan Kraft seals Oberstdorf victory

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Shiffrin, Strasser take Stockholm World Cup parallel slaloms

Mikaela Shiffrin continued her dominant season winning the Stockholm Parallel Slalom, but there was also a first title for Linus Strasser.

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Hirscher claims 20th World Cup victory with Garmisch-Partenkirchen giant slalom triumph

After the two downhills of Garmisch-Partenkirchen won by Travis Ganong and Hannes Reichelt, a giant slalom was the order of the day on the Kandahar course.

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Ski Jumping: Flying Poles seal Willingen team event

Poland celebrated only their second victory in a World Cup team ski jumping competition on Saturday.

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Alpine skiing: Reichelt produces rare win in number one bib

Hannes Reichelt stood on top of a World Cup podium for the 12th time in his career when he won the final men’s downhill race before the World Championships in St…

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Gut wins prestigious Cortina downhill

Defending overall World Cup champion Lara Gut claimed her fifth victory this season when she triumphed in a downhill race at the prestigious Italian resort of Cortina…

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Alpine skiing: Ganong ends US's World Cup win drought

American Travis Ganong stormed to his second career World Cup victory, just over two years after his first, when he won a downhill race at the German resort of Garmisch…

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Italy triumphs in Kronplatz Giant Slalom

Federica Brignone wins the Women's Giant Slalom in Kronplatz

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Race against time: rescuers work to save those trapped after Italian avalanche

Rescue workers in Italy are in a race against time to find further survivors following last week's avalanche.

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Italy avalanche: rescue crews battle worsening weather to find survivors

Despite worsening weather conditions, rescue teams in central Italy say they haven’t given up hope of finding more survivors from a hotel which was completely buried by an…

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Gut continues super-G dominance in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The impressive Lara Gut won the Super-G at the German resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Sunday to extend her unbeaten run in the discipline since start of the…

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Germany flies high at World Cup team event

Germany’s Markus Eisenbichler, Stephan Leyhe, Andreas Wellinger and Richard Freitag joined forces in fine fashion to win a world cup ski jumping team competition in Zakopane…

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Speed queen Vonn triumphs in second race back from lengthy injury layoff

Former Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn stormed to victory in a women’s World Cup downhill at the German resort of Garmisch Partenkirchen in only her second race since returning from an 11-month injury…

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Missing family of four found safe near Japanese ski resort

An Australian mother and her three sons who had been missing for a day from a Japanese ski resort have been rescued.

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Stoch wins again on home snow

Poland’s Kamil Stoch produced yet another flawless display to clinch a world cup ski jumping event on home snow in Wisla on Sunday.

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Stoch carries winning form to Wisla

Double Olympic champion Kamil Stoch continued his fine form of late by winning a world cup ski jumping event on home snow in Wisla, Poland.

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Lindsey Vonn returns to skiing in Austria

American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn is back on the World Cup circuit this week in Austria just nine weeks after surgery.

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Mikaela Shiffrin is back to winning ways

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