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While Kristi Richards has exorcised her demons, the men's alpine speed racers are staring theirs square in the eyes.
Richards, the 2007 world moguls champion, returned to gold-medal form after drifting through the past 18 months amidst a haze of mediocre results, but blazed back to the top of the World Cup podium Friday in Suomo, Finland, and finished second Saturday. It wasn't long ago that merely qualifying for 2010 seemed an unrealistic endeavor for Richards. What a turnaround. Cypress 2010 just got a lot more interesting.
The Canadian Cowboys, however, seem to have lost the sting from their spurs after watching warrior John Kucera crash in Lake Louise, ending a run of the never-fear, let-it-all-hang-out approach to capturing podiums on most weekends. But the men are racing like they're spooked and the results show it. Manny O.P. had the best result of the weekend, a 21st in the men's super-G. Ouch.
- The editors
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Fallen stars: Increase in injuries forces FIS to review safety of sport
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Dec. 14, 2009
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Canada's Roy is latest medical casualty
First it was Canada's best super-G skier and the reigning downhill world champion, and then its best giant slalom skier.
After Jean-Philippe Roy suffered a suspected torn right anterior cruciate ligament on Sunday in Val d'Isere, France, he will likely join John Kucera on the official 2010 Olympic Maple Leaf cheering squad.
Injuries are plaguing ski racing stars - from all over the world - at an alarming rate. The knee injuries are piling up faster than Tiger's alleged escapades.
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Blue Mountain gearing up for ski cross World Cup
The International Ski Federation World Cup tour is finally coming to Southern Ontario. The Rockstar Ski Cross Grand Prix at Blue Mountain Resort Jan. 19-20, 2010, part of the FIS freestyle World Cup, will showcase the world's best ski cross racers - including Canadian World Cup and World Championships medallists - just weeks before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. |
Resurgent Richards sizzles in Suomo With a silver medal Saturday and gold medal Friday, Kristi Richards of Summerland, B.C., is off to the best start of her freestyle ski World Cup career.
After posting mediocre jumps in the qualifying round, she was the 15th of 16 qualifiers for Saturday's final. But the 2007 world moguls champion rallied to grab the silver medal, just ahead of bronze medallist Jenn Heil.
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Kershaw kicks it up a notch
Canada's Devon Kershaw put down one of the most courageous performances of his career while finishing ninth in a 15-kilometre World Cup skate-ski race in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday. The 26-year-old Kershaw, whose season got off to a difficult start with some of the worst results of his World Cup career, rebounded into the form that has guided him to three World Cup podium finishes in his career. The Sudbury, Ont., native clocked a time of 36 minutes, 33.8 seconds after racing in fifth place for most of the race. |
SRC VidPix: Chris Del Bosco on CTV
Canadian ski cross Olympic gold-medal hopeful Chris Del Bosco has a dark past and a bright future. Del Bosco, who has dual citizenship with Canada and the U.S. and chooses to ski for the Maple Leaf, will lead the Canucks on the Cypress Mountain course where the thrill-a-minute discipline will make its Olympic debut in 2010. Check out a short commercial clip on Chris' story in a recent CTV Olympic ad. Chris Delbosco - Do You Believe? Click here to watch |
Freestyle World Cup, GMC World of Skiing on TV
Follow the freestyle World Cup tour this winter on Sportsnet. Click the logo below, or FIS Freestyle for the FIS Freestyle World Cup TV schedule. Click the sportsnet logo for the GMC World of Skiing schedule.   |
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