2012/2013 Winter Sports Thread

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Cross-Country Skiing World Championships

Seventh heaven for Norway's men's relay team in Italy

Petter Northug saw off a late challenge from Calle Halfvarsson to help Norway's male cross country quartet clinch their seventh successive 4x10km relay title at the Nordic World Ski Championships.
Norway headed into the men's relay having tasted victory at every World Championships since 2001, and just one defeat since 1991, with Northug and Halfvarsson going head-to-head at the death.
Northug broke down the last descent before being caught and overtook by Halfvarsson, with the Swede leading right until the home straight in Val di Fiemme.
However he just didn't have enough in the final metres to stop Northug, who turned on the afterburners to finish 1.2seconds ahead of the Swede.
That marked Northug's third medal after gold in the 15km freestyle and silver in the sprint while Russia beat hosts Italy for bronze by 0.2 in an even tighter race behind Norway and Sweden.
Norway trailed Germany by 0.3 after the first exchange with Japan, Sweden, USA, Finland and Italy all part of the chasing pack.
By the second exchange seven teams had become six and the order drastically changed as Switzerland led ahead of Italy before Russia, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
Just 4.1 separated first from sixth while by the third and final exchange there were effectively four teams battling for the medals with Russia leading.
All four were still in contention before final descent with Halfvarsson and Northug breaking away leaving Sergey Ustiugov to cruelly deny the home crowd as David Hofer and Italy had to settle for fourth.

 

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Alpine Skiing - Poisson tops downhill training

David Poisson led the final training session ahead of Saturday's downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway.
The Frenchman, who set a time of 1:46.11, was 0.34s quicker than home star Aksel Lund Svindal, the downhill World Cup leader.
Third was Italian Dominik Paris, over a second off the pace.
David Poisson led the final training session ahead of Saturday's downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway.
The Frenchman, who set a time of 1:46.11, was 0.34s quicker than home star Aksel Lund Svindal, the downhill World Cup leader.
Third was Italian Dominik Paris, over a second off the pace.

Results

1 POISSON David FRA 1:46.11

2 SVINDAL Aksel Lund NOR 1:46.45

3 PARIS Dominik ITA 1:47.16

4 ROMAR Andreas FIN 1:47.27

4 KROELL Klaus AUT 1:47.27

6 HEEL Werner ITA 1:47.35

7 PUCHNER Joachim AUT 1:47.36

8 STREITBERGER Georg AUT 1:47.58

9 ROGER Brice FRA 1:47.63

10 BERTRAND Yannick FRA 1:47.71

 

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Speed Skating World Cup

Wang wins in Lee's absence in Erfurt

Beixing Wang made the most of Olympic champion Lee Sang-Hwa’s absence to win the first of two 500m races at the penultimate speed skating World Cup of the season in Erfurt.
Lee won all eight 500m races scheduled ahead of the trip to Germany however, with the Korean not competing, Wang took it upon herself to claim victory.
She clocked 38.07seconds for victory with Dutch skater Thijsje Oenema finishing second 0.27 behind with home hope Jenny Wolf just another 0.05 further adrift in third.
Lee is still the champion elect though with Wolf trailing the Korean by 249 points with just three races, including one more in Erfurt, left this season.

Meanwhile Bob de Jong recorded an extremely fast 10,000m time as he and Dutch teammate Jorrit Bergsma destroyed the field in Germany.
De Jong clocked 12:53.56minutes with Bergsma 1.80 behind in second before Korean Lee Seung-Hoon 26.28 behind the Dutch winner in total.
Just 20 points now separate Bergsma in the lead of the overall joint 5000m-10,000m World Cup standings from de Jong in second.

And in the ladies' 5000m Martina Sablikova claimed her second win over the distance this season and leads the overall standings for the combined 3000m-5000m.
Sablikova clocked 7:01.33 for victory with German hopes of a win dashed again as Stephanie Beckert finished second 1.51 behind and Claudia Pechstein over three seconds back in third.

 

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Biathlon World Cup

Berger wins women's sprint gold

Tora Berger picked up from where compatriot Tarjei Boe left off as she delivered another World Cup biathlon win for the fervent home crowd in Oslo Holmenkollen, Norway.
Thursday saw Boe storm to victory in the men's 10km sprint and Berger was keen to get in on the action, repeating the feat in the women's 7.5km sprint.
Berger, fresh from winning four gold medals at the 2013 Biathlon World Championships in Nove Mesto, was once again in devastating form as she was perfect with the rifle to come home first in 21:31.2 minutes.
Finishing second in Norway was Belarusian Darya Domracheva, who finished with bronze while Berger was winning 15km gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Domracheva missed two targets to come home in 21:43.2 minutes, while Slovakian Anastasiya also picked up the same number of penalties in third.
The win stretches Berger's already commanding lead atop the overall World Cup standings to 289 points.
Berger sits pretty at the summit on 949 points with Domracheva second on 660 and German Andrea Henkel, who was sixth in Norway, is third on 638 with seven events remaining.
Meanwhile, Great Britain's Amanda Lightfoot finished 91st, missing seven targets to cross the line in 27:34.7 minutes.

 

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Alpine Skiing World Cup

Theaux triumphs in Kvitfjell downhill

France's Adrien Theaux overcame the wind and the favourites to snatch his second victory in a World Cup downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway.
The Frenchman, who won a downhill in Lenzerheide two seasons ago, took advantage of the changing conditions to clock the fastest time of one minute 29.10 seconds on a course shortened because of gale-***** winds at the top.
Theaux denied local favourite Aksel Lund Svindal his first victory on the downhill course of the 1994 Olympics.
Crowned downhill world champion in Schladming last month, Svindal finished second but came within 129 points of Austria's Marcel Hirscher in the overall World Cup standings.
Should he win Sunday's super-G on home snow, Svindal would be back on Hirscher's heels with only seven races remaining before the end of the season.
Downhill World Cup holder Klaus Kroell of Austria was third, half a second adrift, and remained in contention to retain his globe in the discipline. Kroell is 58 points behind Svindal.

 

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Biathlon World Cup

Berger closes on maiden title with another Oslo win

Norwegian star Tora Berger recorded her second World Cup victory in front of her home fans in 24 hours in the 10km pursuit in Oslo.
She failed to match her perfect showing on the shooting range in winning the 7.5km sprint on Friday - missing four targets - but nevertheless claimed her 10th win of the season.
The Olympic 15km individual champion came home in 32:12.2, 31.2 seconds ahead of France's Marie Dorin Habert with Slovakian Anastasiya Kuzmina finishing third.
The victory means Berger has all but wrapped up her maiden World Cup title, sitting 309 points clear of her nearest challenger Darya Domracheva of Belarus with just 360 on offer in the final six events.
Domracheva moves on to 700 points after finishing fifth in Norway, while Andrea Henkel is 30 further back in third after crossing ninth.

 

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Biathlon World Cup

Fourcade back to winning ways in Oslo

Martin Fourcade returned to winning ways in the biathlon World Cup with victory in the pursuit in Oslo, his first since collecting one gold and four silvers at the World Championships.
The 24-year-old claimed just the solitary title at the World Championships in Nove Mesto in the individual having to settle for second best in the sprint, pursuit, men's relay and mixed relay.
That tale continued in the first of three events in Oslo as Tarjei Boe beat Fourcade to victory in the sprint by just a tenth of a second however the French World Cup leader got his own back in the pursuit.
The win was never in doubt as Fourcade led from start to finish, only very briefly being overtaken by Boe at the 1.8km mark, with two misses in the range for a winning time of 33:48.2minutes.
Boe was a constant second throughout finishing 27.7seconds behind in second while Alexandr Loginov's charge after the halfway mark saw him claim bronze 35.5 behind World Cup leader Fourcade in total.

 

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Cross-Country Skiing World Championships

Bjoergen Queen of Val di Fiemme after fourth gold

Marit Bjoergen was crowned the Queen of Val di Fiemme after taking her fourth gold medal of the Nordic World Ski Championships and first in the 30km classic for eight years.
The 32-year-old has been the form athlete in the women's cross country events in Italy, medalling in every race she had entered ahead of the 30km classic mass start finale.
That amounted to gold in the sprint, the pursuit and the 4x5km relay with her Norwegian teammates and silver in the 10km freestyle where she was pipped by Therese Johaug.
At the World Championships in Oslo two years ago in, Bjoergen was going for a fifth gold medal in the 30km classic finale only to be beaten by Johaug.
However history was not to repeat itself as Bjoergen executed the perfect race to overtake long-time leader Justyna Kowalczyk ahead of the home straight for victory.
Johaug was dropped on the final climb into the finish with Bjoergen's pace too much for Kowalczyk to match as she clocked a winning time of 1:27:19.9hours.
Kowalczyk took silver 3.7seconds behind while Johaug finished with bronze another five further back before a gap of almost a minute and a half from Heidi Weng in fourth.
It was clear from the off that Bjoergen, Kowalczyk and Johaug would be challenging for medals as they hit the front however they weren't alone there.
Germany's Nicole Fessel and Weng stuck with them for two thirds of the race before the pace became too great and they dropped off to leave them to it.
Kowalczyk did the majority of the work until the final metres when Bjoergen and Johaug attacked however the latter slipped on the final climb and dropped off.
That left Kowalczyk and Bjoergen going into the final straight with the Norwegian stalking her Polish rival and overtaking her well before the finishing line for victory.

 

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Speed Skating World Cup

Wang claims 500m double in Erfurt

Wang Beixing made it two from two in the absence of Lee Sang-Hwa at the speed skating World Cup in Erfurt while Jan Smeekens claimed his third straight victory.
Wang, from China, became the first skater that wasn't Lee to win a World Cup race over 500m on Friday and she repeated the trick a day later in Germany for the distance double.
She went slower in 38.15 seconds with 0.07 separating first and fourth as Russian Olga Fatkulina took second in a dead heat with Dutch skater Thijsje Oenema.
German Jenny Wolf was then just 0.01 further adrift in fourth and, with Lee absent, is now 189 points behind her in second in the overall World Cup standings for the 500m.

Meanwhile Smeekens is on the charge in the men's 500m taking his third successive victory of the season in 35.06 with Joji Kato second and Ronald Mulder third.
Smeekens leads Japanese skater Kato in the overall distance standings by 124 points while Dutch teammate Ireen Wust claimed a second straight win in the ladies' 1500m.
She comfortably led home a Dutch one-two-three beating Diane Valkenburg by 2.71 with a time of 1:55.61minutes while Marrit Leenstra was another 0.06 adrift in third.

American Brian Hansen denied another Dutch victory in the men's 1000m defeating Stefan Groothuis by 0.05 for his first World Cup win in the distance this season.
The result has little affect on the overall 1000m standings though with Kjeld Nuis, ninth in Erfurt, leading Hein Otterspeer, who was 11th, by just three points.

However the Dutch were back to winning ways in the men's team pursuit as they beat Korean by 0.12 while Poland were a clear third ahead of Russia.

 

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Alpine Skiing World Cup

Maze wins Garmisch downhill and breaks 2,000 points

Tina Maze topped an extraordinary campaign with a new World Cup points record of 2,024 after her victory in the women's downhill gave her wins in all five disciplines this season.

The dominant Slovenian - now the first woman to have broken the 2,000 points barrier - did even better than Austria's Hermann Maier, who totalled 2,000 points exactly when he won the men's overall World Cup in 2000.
In one minute and 40.46 seconds, Maze bagged her ninth World Cup victory of the season and became only the second woman in modern skiing to win in all five disciplines in the same season after Croatia's Janica Kostelic in 2006.
"I've already been very happy but rarely as much as today," World Cup champion Maze said as she sported a T-shirt with 2,000 written on.
"I don't know what I'm happiest about. So many things are happening to me today," added the 29-year-old, who had only won once previously in the downhill in St Moritz in 2008.
"There's the 2,000 points but I really needed to prove myself that I could win a downhill again. In St Moritz, I was lucky.
"I could not miss a chance like this. I love the course and the conditions were perfect today," she said.
Kostelic told Reuters: "Her season has just been perfect."
American Laurenne Ross confirmed the brilliant form of the US team in speed events this season by finishing second, 0.39 adrift.
However, her team-mate Alice McKennis crashed heavily on the tricky and icy Kandahar piste.
McKennis, the unexpected winner of a downhill in St Anton this season, had to be flown away from the course and no details on her condition were immediately available.
Ross was the sixth member of the US women's ski team on the podium of a speed event in the World Cup this season but Maze's runaway overall success and injury last month to previous all-conquering American Lindsey Vonn has overshadowed them.
In her home resort, Maria Hoefl-Riesch earned a solid third place, 0.50 off the pace.
Maze, who also won the super-G gold medal at the world championships in Schladming last month, should add more points to her record tally in Sunday's super-G on the same piste.
"To break Hermann Maier's record is of course nice too, but it was not my main goal at the start of this season," Maze added.
"I have achieved so much but there was also so much hard work involved in all these successes."
The World Cup season ends in Switzerland's Lenzerheide on March 17.

 

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Nordic Combined World Championships

Lamy-Chappuis's third gold as France win world team sprint title

Jason Lamy-Chappuis ended his Nordic World Ski Championship campaign with an historic third gold medal after he and Sebastien Lacroix combined to guide France to the first-ever team sprint title.
Lamy-Chappuis headed into the fourth and final Nordic combined event in Val di Fiemme having won gold in the individual and team normal hill as well as silver in the individual large hill.
And, despite an average ski jump from him and French team-mate Lacroix, who was part of the victorious team normal hill quartet, they were too good over the cross country ski.
They made up a 43-second deficit on leaders after the ski jumping Germany to clock a winning cross country ski time of 35:37.9 with Austria moving up from third to second.
Bernhard Gruber and Wilhelm Denifl finished 16.6seconds behind Lamy-Chappuis and Lacroix while Tino Edelmann's stumble late on the cross country ski didn't prove costly as Germany battled to third.
Edelmann and Eric Frenzel combined for a German lead after the ski jumping with their points total of 264.3 giving them a 12-second head start on Japanese duo Akito Watabe and Taihei Kato.
They scored 258.4 for their ski jump while Austrian's Gruber and Denifl were another 13 seconds back in third with 251.8 before the French duo 43 seconds behind in total after scoring 242.7.
However Lamy-Chappuis and Lacroix's dominance on their skis soon started to show as they powered their way to victory while Gruber and Denifl also moved up the field to finish as runners-up.
It looked like being a three-way fight for gold until Edelmann's late tumble which in turn gave Japan hope of bronze with Kato leading Frenzel with the finishing line approaching in Val di Fiemme.
However Frenzel had more left in his legs as Germany completed the podium in third 0.6seconds ahead of the Japanese duo and 43.9 behind history maker Lamy-Chappuis and Lacroix in total.
Lamy-Chappuis' win saw him become the first person to win three gold medals in a single edition of the World Championships.

 

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Ski Jumping World Championships

Austria seal another world title in team large hill

Austria were finally toasting ski jumping gold at the Nordic World Ski Championships as they won the team large hill title for the fifth successive time final thanks to Manuel Fettner's coolness under pressure.
The efforts of the 27-year-old proved the difference as after a jump of 128m during round two he lost a ski on his landing but managed to keep his balance and avoid tumbling before the line.
After a poor jump from Norway, who were first until then, Fettner's composure gave the Austrians the lead and one that they wouldn't relinquish with Thomas Morgenstern and Gregor Schlierenzauer next to jump.
Austria finished with a winning total of 1135.9 points to maintain their run of victories from Oberstdorf 2005 while Germany claimed silver and Poland bronze ahead of Norway after a jury meeting.
Morgenstern contributed jumps of 121m and 129.5m despite suffering from a sprained ankle however he is adamant the injury won't be ruling him out for long with the World Cup set to restart next week.
"It was a pleasure to take part in the team competition. The fight for the top places was really close and we could enjoy it," said Morgenstern.
"I tried to make a telemark in the final round and then I felt some pain in my knee, but it won't be something serious."
Wolfgang Loitzl produced efforts of 130.5m and 128 m and Schlierenzauer contributed 124.5m and 129m while Fettner's opening effort was 125.5m as Austria retained their team title.
However Fettner's save wasn't the only drama as Norway, Germany and Poland battled it out for silver and bronze with the outcome still undecided until the last jumps of Anders Jacobsen, Richard Freitag and Kamil Stoch.
Stoch leapt 130m to earn Poland 1121 points while Freitag landed 129.5m as Germany surpassed them with 1121.8 while Jacobsen leapt 131.5m for what looked silver for Norway ahead of both.
But the results were checked again in the jury meeting concerning the gate compensation points of Anders Bardal's first jump and their final decision saw Norway miss out altogether as they finished fourth with 1117.3 points.

 

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Winter Universiade - Pyeongchang linked to Winter Universiade bid

Pyeongchang, host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics, is hoping to welcome the FISU Winter Universiade a year later.
FISU secretary general Eric Saintrond recently travelled to Pyeongchang, where he met with the local authorities and discussed the possibility of the South Korean city hosting a second major sporting spectacle in the space of 12 months.
Saintrond met with the mayor of Pyeongchang, Seok Rae Lee, who confirmed his interest in the 2019 event.
There is a precedent for an Olympic city to host the Winter Universiade soon after: in 2007 Turin doubled up after the 2006 Games, enabling the Italian city to make continued use of the newly-built sports facilities and the athletes’ village. In addition, the Winter Universiade also benefited from the support of the thousands of volunteers who had been given high-quality training.
The suitability of Pyeongchang, which finally won its bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games after twice losing out in 2010 and 2014, seems clear.
The small city in the Gwandon province, a three-hour drive from Seoul’s international airport at Incheon, already has the requisite sports facilities, the bobsleigh and toboggan runs excepted.
The University of Kwandong is located in Gangneung, a town near to Pyeongchang where the ice competitions will take place in 2018. And with over 40,000 students, this institution - part of the EURAS network - is a key partner for FISU's upcoming events, given that the Almaty Technological University and the Kazan Federal University are also members of the network.

 

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Winter Universiade - Kayseri throws hat into ring for 2019

FISU officials have visited Kayseri after the Turkish city expressed an interest in joining the running to host the Winter Universiade in 2019.
Kayseri, situated in central Anatolia, becomes the third city to throw its hat into the ring after Krasnoyarsk in Russia and Korea's PyeongChang.
Official confirmation of the bid is expected in the coming weeks. If successful it would be the third Universiade to be held on Turkish soil after Izmir in the summer of 2005 and Erzurum in the winter of 2011.
With a million inhabitants, Kayseri has prospered amid economic growth over the past decade. In this climate, substantial investments have been made in the alpine ski facilities at Mount Erciyes, whose peak reaches 3,917m above sea level.
FISU secretary general and CEO Eric Saintrond visited Kayseri accompanied by a delegation from FISU’s Turkish member association. The visit included an official meeting of the Governor of Kayseri, the city's mayor and the rector of Erciyes University.

 

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Winter Universiade - Antequera eager to welcome Winter Universiade

Granada Winter Universiade supremo Aurelio Ureña has met with the mayor of Antequera, Manuel Baron, to finalise the integration of the town into the event.
Antequera and its Athletics Centre for High Performance had been identified as a preferred venue to host the 2015 Games' figure and short track speed skating events.
The meeting confirmed both sides' intentions to make the proposal become a reality, with Baron displaying an intention to immediately begin work on the promotion of the Universiade.
Baron also said he was confident the events will be well received by the inhabitants of his city, as has been the case with other sporting events previously held there.
Antequera has a long standing tradition as a host city and is no stranger to FISU: in 2010 Antequera hosted the 13th World University Golf Championship.
"We're very pleased after the meeting because we see that there is a firm intention to start creating an environment of Universiade in this town," said Ureña.
"We believe that the sports which will be hosted in Antequera will receive a special welcome."
Meanwhile, a delegation of FISU experts has visited those facilities that will host the skating events in Antequera and the remaining ice competition venues (ice hockey and curling) in Granada.
The FISU delegation was headed by Milan Augustin, FISU director for the Winter Universiade.

 

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Winter Universiade - Medvedev meets FISU officials in Krasnoyarsk

Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev has met with FISU officials and reiterated his support for Krasnoyarsk's bid to host the 2019 Winter Universiade.
Medvedev took the opportunity to speak with FISU president Claude-Louis Gallien, first vice-president Oleg Matytsin and secretary general Eric Saintrond while at the Economic Forum held in the Siberian city.
At the meeting at the Krasnoyarsk Biathlon Academy, Medvedev confirmed the central government's backing for the 29th Winter Universiade, which Krasnoyarsk has shown an interest in hosting.
FISU’s presence at the Economic Forum also allowed its representatives to meet with the President of Tatarstan, the Russian Federation's deputy minister for sports and the local authorities, in particular the Governor of Krasnoyarsk.
The Siberian city's bid is also supported by former world number one tennis player Dinara Safina and figure skating Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin.

 

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Alpine Skiing World Cup

Svindal wins Super-G title with first victory in Kvitfjell

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal finally won a race in his homeland with victory in a super-G that also gave him the World Cup title in the discipline.
The downhill world champion, who had been on the lower steps of the podium seven times before on the course of the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, made the top spot at last in one minute 29.79 seconds.
Thanks to his fifth win of the Alpine ski season, the super-G Olympic champion also secured the ninth World Cup trophy of his career.
Svindal, who had to be content with second in Saturday's downhill behind Frenchman Adrien Theaux, also increased the pressure on overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria, whom he trails by 29 points with seven races left.
Austria's Georg Streitberger was second in the race, 0.52 adrift, ahead of Italian Werner Heel, who was a further 0.05 back.

 

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Biathlon World Cup

Berger wins maiden World Cup title with Oslo hat-trick

Tora Berger won her maiden biathlon World Cup title by completing a hat-trick of victories on home snow in Oslo however she almost threw it away at the death.
Berger headed into the third and final event in Norway, the 12.5km mass start, having been so dominant on the way to wins in the 7.5km sprint and 10km pursuit.
And it appeared as if Berger, who medalled in every event she entered at the World Championships, winning four golds, would be cruising to a third straight victory in Oslo.
She took the lead for the first time after shooting clear in her first trip to the range and, despite briefly falling behind Darya Domracheva, she had a 20-second lead at the fourth and final shoot.
Berger had gone clear up until that point however she missed two targets to surrender the lead to Anastasiya Kuzmina and face a battle on her hands to win again in Oslo.
However Kuzmina couldn't keep Berger at bay as she recovered from her poor shoot to beat the Slovakian by 5.4 seconds with her final winning time 36:58.8minutes.
Domracheva completed the top three 23.3seconds behind the Norwegian in total and 4.1 ahead of France's Anais Bescond, who shot completely clear, in fourth.
And, with just five races left this season, Berger now cannot be caught at the top of the overall World Cup standings with her lead over Domracheva 321 points.

 

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Alpine Skiing - Maze given bodyguards after death threats

World Cup winner Tina Maze was given bodyguards after death threats were received at a local ski club before a women's super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, organisers said on Sunday.
"It's a shame but things like that happen," the head of the organising committee, Peter Fischer, told reporters.
Maze, the first skier to break the 2,000 points barrier in the World Cup standings, said: "What's happening to me is really ugly, but I suppose it's part of the game. I don't have words to express what I feel."

 

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Alpine Skiing World Cup

Maze gets death threats as Fenninger wins Super-G

World Cup winner and world champion Tina Maze finished off the podium of a women's Super-G won by Austria's Anna Fenninger on Sunday after being told death threats had been made against her.
Alpine ski World Cup organisers provided bodyguards for Maze, 24 hours after she beat the record of points scored in the overall World Cup thanks to her victory in a downhill in the German resort.
"It's a shame but things like that happen," the head of the organising committee, Peter Fischer, told journalists, adding that the anonymous threats had been received at the local ski club.
"What's happening to me is really ugly but I suppose it's part of the game. I don't have words to express what I feel," said Maze, who finished fourth, 0.43 behind Fenninger.
"At the start, I tried not to think about it and to focus on my race only. It's a new situation for me to have to face things like that and I don't know how I should react."
The Slovenian's fourth place took her overall points tally to 2,074 with seven races remaining. On Saturday, she became the first racer to surpass 2,000 points in a season.
Former super-combined world champion Fenninger earned her third victory, her first in a speed event. The last Austrian to win a women's super-G was Elisabeth Goergl in the 2009-2010 season.
"It's my first victory in a super-G and I'm very proud of it as I feel more like a giant slalom specialist. But I want to be strong in every discipline," Fenninger said.
Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch missed out on victory in her home resort by 0.20 seconds while American Julia Mancuso was third, a further 0.03 seconds behind.