Americans Abroad Are Taming the Mountains and the Critics
Posted by Stephan on December 21st 2006
December 21, 2006Americans Abroad Are Taming the Mountains and the Critics
Within a span of 90 minutes yesterday, on opposite sides of the European Alps, the American skiers Bode Miller and Lindsey Kildow each won World Cup races, extending an extraordinary streak for the United States team. Miller’s victory, his third of the season, catapulted him into the No. 1 world ranking, which he has not held since Dec. 21, 2005, while Kildow’s decisive downhill victory — her second of the season — solidified her lead in that discipline’s standings. With the Olympic giant-slalom champion Julia Mancuso finishing as the runner-up to Kildow, the American team has streaked to nine podium placings during the last six days, by five skiers.
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Mancuso’s first WCup victory caps remarkable run of form for U.S. skiers The Associated Press Tuesday, December 19, 2006 VAL D’ISERE, France Julia Mancuso’s first World Cup win Tuesday capped a remarkable few days for American skiers. The Olympic giant slalom champion won the downhill race on the 2.5-kilometer (1.55-mile) Oreiller-Killy course in 1 minute, 38.93 seconds. Renate Goetschl of Austria was runner-up, 0.43 seconds behind, and World Cup downhill leader Lindsey Kildow, Mancuso’s U.S. teammate and last year’s Val d’Isere winner, was .54 back in third.
