France's Nacer Bouhanni sprinted to victory in the fourth stage of the Paris-Nice Thursday, as Australia's Michael Matthews held the overall race lead.
Bouhanni, who was demoted from first to third Tuesday, made no mistake to cross ahead of Belgian (...)
Austria's Marcel Hirscher claimed arecord fifth alpine ski victory in Val d'Isere as he continued hisscintillating early-season form with a commanding World Cup giantslalom win Saturday.
Hirscher led from the first run and made sure with a faultless (...)
A suicide attack Tuesday on a police school killed 43 people and wounded 38, authorities said as Algeria reeled from its worst militant assault this year.
An Al-Qaeda group has claimed previous suicide attacks in Algeria but officials gave no (...)
Austrian skier Hermann Maier faces
a fine from the sport's ruling body FIS by almost causing a collision
between piste workers and Italian skier Peter Fill in training for
Saturday's World Cup downhill, according to dpa.
Maier lost a ski but (...)
A storm raging over France forced the cancellation of a women's alpine ski downhill race scheduled for Saturday.
Organizers said that the winds of up to 130kph destroyed the safety netting along the course in Val d'Isere
Another downhill scheduled (...)
A layer of fresh snow forced organizers to cancel a women's World Cup downhill ski race Sunday, the day after the first speed race fell victim to a storm.
The ruling body FIS said it had not yet decided where the two races could be held later in (...)
