Kitzbuhel (AFP) – Former Olympic and World Cup champion Hermann Maier insisted on Thursday that he would not go back on his decision to quit skiing despite the upcoming Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Maier, 38, won four Olympic medals in his illustrious career (including two golds in 1998), six world championship medals as well as [...]
Montréal (AFP) – Genevieve Simard, a two-time Canadian Olympic Alpine skier, retired Wednesday from competitive ski racing after battling the past two seasons to recover from left knee surgery. Simard, 29, won her only World Cup race at a 2004 super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and also reached four podiums in the giant slalom during [...]
Paris (AFP) – Reigning World Cup slalom champion Jean-Baptiste Grange will not compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics after being ruled out for the rest of the season injured, his coach David Chastan told AFP on Tuesday. The 25-year-old, the top medal hope for the French alpine skiing team in Vancouver in February, injured his [...]
Zagreb (AFP) – Croatian ski champion Ivica Kostelic said his sights are set firmly on the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games after returning to training this weekend following a recent knee injury scare. Kostelic, a silver medal winner in the supercombined event at the Turin Games in 2006, injured his knee competing in the two-discipline event [...]
Kitzbuhel (AFP) – Former Olympic and World Cup champion Hermann Maier insisted on Thursday that he would not go back on his decision to quit skiing despite the upcoming Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Maier, 38, won four Olympic medals in his illustrious career (including two golds in 1998), six world championship medals as well as [...]
Cortina d’Ampezzo (AFP) – Liechtenstein skier Tina Weirather snapped cruciate ligaments in Saturday’s downhill at Cortina and will therefore miss the Winter Games in Vancouver next month, her country’s ski federation said. The 20-year-old Weirather, who suffered similar injuries both in 2007 and 2008, is the daughter of double 1980 Lake Placid Olympic Winter [...]
