GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Maria Riesch beat Lindsey Vonn of in the final downhill of the season to keep the race for the overall title alive.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the final downhill of the season Wednesday to take the overall World Cup lead with three races remaining. Patrick Kueng of Switzerland and Erik Guay of Canada shared third place.

COLLINGWOOD, Ont. — Curtis Lush of Toronto hopes he's put an injury-plagued season behind him with his victory on Tuesday in the men's giant slalom that concluded the GMC Cup alpine ski series for the 2010 season.

Christopher Williamson and Lauren Woolstencroft, both multiple Paralympic Winter Games medallists, lead a group of 16 ski racers intently focused on contributing to Canada's medal totals during the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, Alpine Canada announced Tuesday.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Lindsey Vonn will head into the final downhill race of the season with a chance to claim the overall World Cup title for the third straight season.

Triple Olympic medallist Bode Miller will skip World Cup Finals and has not decided on his alpine racing future, the American star reported Monday in his blog on UniversalSports.com.

INAWASHIRO, Japan — Japan's Aiko Uemura won a freestyle skiing World Cup moguls event Sunday to claim her first title of the season, edging Olympic silver medallist Jennifer Heil of Canada

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado — The landslide of Nor-Am medals continued for Canadian freestyle skiers Friday with Eddie Hicks and Chelsea Henitiuk reaching the podium.

BRANAS, Sweden — Canada earned two more ski cross World Cup podium finishes Saturday, with Aleisha Cline and Chris Del Bosco finishing second in their respective competitions.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado — Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., and Chelsea Henitiuk of Whistler, B.C., won gold medals in men’s and women’s moguls, respectively, on Thursday at a Nor-Am freestyle skiing competition.

APEX MOUNTAIN, B.C. — Rémi Bélanger of Mascouche, Que., and Crystal Lee of Queensville, Ont., led Canada to medal sweeps in men’s and women’s aerials with golden performances on Tuesday at a Nor-Am freestyle skiing competition.

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. — Jeret "Speedy" Peterson has spent much of his adult life searching for a glimmer of hope wrapped inside a Hurricane.

Canada will send 12 cross-country ski athletes to the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, with the athletes bringing an impressive list of international medals won as long as the trails they will compete on at Whistler Paralympic Park.

Meet Canadian Olympic team member Brian McKeever, who will compete with his guide and brother, Robin, in cross-country action at the upcoming Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

LAHTI, Finland — Triple Olympic champion Marit Bjoergen of Norway won the women's 15-kilometer pursuit Saturday at the Lahti Ski Games.

LG Electronics, a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, and the International Ski Federation announced Thursday that LG will renew its title sponsorship of the FIS Snowboard World Cup for the 2010-11 season.

The federal government increase to Own the Podium funding announced Thursday will have a lasting impact on ski racing and other amateur sports in Canada, Alpine Canada Alpin said.

In an event like no other recently held in Canada, Olympic gold medallists Alexandre Bilodeau and Ashleigh McIvor and Olympic silver medallist Jenn Heil will compete for national titles in their respective sports on the same day.