Skiing News November 2006

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THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2006
	Winter Park: Six U.S. in Super Series Top 20
	WINTER PARK, Colo. - Resi Stiegler (Jackson Hole, WY) overcame a lost ski pole on her second run Wednesday and held onto seventh place to lead five U.S. women into the top 15, six into the first 20 of a Chevrolet Super Series slalom in sub-zero weather. For the second day in a row, Slovakian Veronika Zuzulova won the race, this time in 1:29.24 with Therese Borssen of Sweden - who was thir Read Full Story
	Showtime! at Beaver Creek's Birds of Prey
	BEAVER CREEK, Colo. - T.J. Lanning (Park City, UT) and former Junior World Championships downhill bronze medalist Erik Fisher (Sandpoint, ID) clinched start spots Wednesday in a training run before this week's World Cup downhill at the VISA Birds of Prey races. The VISA races will include four days of top-level competition, starting Thursday with a super combined event followed by Friday' Read Full Story
WEDNESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2006
	Wir Schanzen Tournee to be Held in Allgau Region
	After two successful issues of the Wir Schanzen Tournee in the Allgäu region, the ski & snowboard contest series has evolved into an inherent part of the German wintersports scene. For the third issue, the organizer, sponsors and partners will come up again with several specials to top the WST 2006, which was won by Friedl May (snowboard) and Xaver Gehring (ski) in all respects. Also in the ot Read Full Story
MONDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2006
	High Winds, Rain Cancel Combined in FIN
	KUUSAMO, Finland - High winds, which forced cancellation of a ski jumping event the night before, and rain forced officials Sunday to cancel a nordic combined sprint World Cup. "I don't know if they were the same winds because they were from a different direction," Head Coach Lasse Ottesen said, "but we could see early on this wasn't happening. We never got to take the trial round [of jum Read Full Story
	Miller Tops U.S. in Sub-zero Lake Louise SG
	LAKE LOUISE, Alberta - Defending super G world champion Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, NH) had the top U.S. result Sunday in sub-zero cold, placing 14th behind surprise winner John Kucera of Canada in the first World Cup SG of the season. Kucera's first World Cup win came in 1:29.70, putting him six-hundredths of a second ahead of Austrian Mario Scheiber. The temperature was about eight degr Read Full Story