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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

Sport

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…

28/01/2017

Sport

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…

27/01/2017

Sport

Italy triumphs in Kronplatz Giant Slalom

Federica Brignone wins the Women's Giant Slalom in Kronplatz

24/01/2017

Italy

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.

23/01/2017

Italy

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…

22/01/2017

Sport

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…

22/01/2017