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Shiffrin wins third straight slalom world title

American Mikaela Shiffrin cemented her status as the slalom queen after winning the world title in the discipline for a third consecutive time.

18/02/2017

Sport

Hirscher seals giant slalom world title, as low-flying plane slices camera cable

Austria’s Marcel Hirscher won giant slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after a delay caused by a Swiss air force plane slicing through an overhead television camera…

17/02/2017

Sport

American sharp-shooter Bailey wins surprise biathlon gold

Lowell Bailey produced shock and awe at the World Championships in Austria by storming to victory in the men’s 20km biathlon.

16/02/2017

Sport

Kot seals status as man to beat after PyeongChang ski jump

Maciej Kot is celebrating his second World Cup victory within a week at the ski jumping World Cup in South Korea.

16/02/2017

Sport

France's Worley slaloms to second gold at world championships

Tessa Worley has won her second gold medal at the alpine skiing world championship in St Moritz, Switzerland.

16/02/2017

Sport

Kraft works wonders at South Korea's inaugural ski jump event

South Korea’s signalled its more than ready to host next year’s Winter Olympics by staging the latest round of the World Cup ski jumping.

15/02/2017

Sport

French flair wins team gold at Alpine world championships

Mathieu Faivre anchored France to gold at the Alpine skiing World Championships in the Team Event at St Moritz.

14/02/2017

France

Avalanche in French Alps claims three members of same family

Three members of the same family are among four people who have been killed by an avalanche in the French ski resort Tignes

13/02/2017

Sport

Alpine skiing: Aerni wins shock gold at Worlds

Luca Aerni handed host nation Switzerland their third title from six races at the World skiing championships in St.

13/02/2017

Sport

Alpine skiing: Stuhec and Feuz strike world championships gold

Ilka Stuhec became the second successive Slovenian to win the downhill title at the Alpine skiing world championships.

12/02/2017

Sport

Ski jumping: Prevc and Kot share first place in Sapporo

Defending overall world cup champion Peter Prevc and Maciej Kot tied for first place at a ski jumping World Cup competition in Sapporo, Japan on Saturday.

11/02/2017

Sport

Holdener wins Alpine combined gold as compatriot Gut suffers season-ending injury

The Swiss team enjoyed mixed emotions on home snow at the World Championships in St Moritz on Friday.

10/02/2017

Sport

Erik Guay wins Super-G Gold

Canadian Erik Guay produces a stunning run to take Super-G gold

08/02/2017

Sport

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.

07/02/2017

Sport

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

Snowtime in St Moritz watch 'Gravity'

05/02/2017

Sport

Austria's Stefan Kraft a high-flyer in Oberstdorf

Austria's Stefan Kraft seals Oberstdorf victory

04/02/2017

Sport

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.

31/01/2017

Sport

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.

29/01/2017

Sport

Ski Jumping: Flying Poles seal Willingen team event

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

28/01/2017

Sport

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…

28/01/2017