Frederic Covili of France, who never had been on a podium before this season, won the season opener in October and that win stood all winter as he took the men's World Cup overall giant slalom title Sunday.

Croatian Janica Kostelic, who earned a record-breaking four Olympic medals in Salt Lake City, won the last slalom race of the season by more than a half-second Sunday.

Olympic double-medalist Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), looking to become the first American man to win the World Cup slalom title since 1982, but mistakenly wearing downhill race boots, electrified the crowd and the race field Saturday with another of his wild rides.

Sonja Nef of Switzerland, the reigning world champion, collected her second straight World Cup giant slalom title Saturday, winning the final GS of the season by nearly a full second over Swedish racer Anna Ottosson.

Swiss Didier Cuche scored an important super G victory Thursday in the FIS World Cup finals in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, extending his lead over the US's Bode Miller in the battle for third in the overall World Cup standings with two races remaining.

Newly crowned women's World Cup overall champion Michaela Dorfmeister collected her second victory in 24 hours Thursday at World Cup Finals, leading three Austrians into the top five spots as she won the last super G of the season.

The 1998 super G gold medalist, Picabo Street, finished a disappointing 33rd in a super G World Cup race Friday, disqualifying her from the super G Olympic team and ending her chance to defend her title.

Caroline Lalive (Steamboat Springs, CO) came out of a tough late starting position to record the best downhill finish of her career Wednesday.

The 1998 super G gold medalist, Picabo Street, finished a disappointing 33rd in a super G World Cup race Friday, disqualifying her from the super G Olympic team and ending her chance to defend her title.

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) took the first-run lead in the men's slalom Tuesday night before an eye-popping 50,000 spectators and overcame softening snow on his second run to win by .66 with a time of 1:44.60 with Frenchman Jean Pierre Vidal 2nd. It was his fourth win of the season, his third in slalom. Tom Rothrock (Cashmere, WA) had his second top-20, finishing an unofficial 16th with Chip Knight (Stowe, VT), 21st, and Erik Schlopy (Park City, UT), 24th.

The US's Kristina Koznick and Swiss Marlies Oester tied for a World Cup slalom victory Sunday with Sarah Schleper (Vail, CO) 5th. It was Koznick's fifth World Cup victory.

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) overcame first-run troubles, including a broken ski pole, Sunday and, calling it "as big a battle as any of my wins," finished 3rd in the slalom...

It was gray day for the U.S. Ski Team here in Kitzbuehel today. And it was especially frustrating for US hopeful Daron Rahlves who had been confident coming into this famed Hahnenkamm downhill on the fabled Streif course.

World downhill champion Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria had the fastest second run Saturday en route to winning a World Cup giant slalom by more than a second...

In a repeat performance of his finish here last year, Daron Rahlves (Sugar Bowl, CA) just missed the podium.

"I found my comfort zone today," said Rahlves. "Yesterday it was a little scary..."

It was an American attack for World Cup points and Olympic opportunities...

Schleper, 12th in the first run, ate up the second run to move into 5th place at 1:27.98.

World Cup leader Stephan Eberharter led an Austrian invasion into the top spots Saturday at the heralded Lauberhorn, one of downhill ski racing's premier events.

Picabo Street (Park City, Utah) was the top American Friday in the women's downhill in Saalbach, finishing 10th behind winner Hilde Gerg of Germany. Kirsten Clark (Raymond, Maine) was 11th..

U.S. Ski Team downhill racer Chad Fleischer's (Vail, CO) season came to an end Thursday when he suffered a knee injury in a crash during a downhill training run in Wengen.

Miller (Franconia, NH) spoke with nearly a dozen national and regional journalists in a 30-minute teleconference a few hours after his slalom victory in Adelboden, the first time a U.S. skier has won three World Cup races in a season since Phil Mahre during the 1983 season.

Swedish world champion Anja Paerson won her fourth straight World Cup slalom -- her third in eight days, her second in 24 hours -- with a brilliant second run that gave her the win by eight-hundredths of a second.

Kirsten Clark (Raymond, ME) held up the honor of Maine's Carrabassett Valley Academy Saturday as she overcame flat-light conditions to produce a podium performance of her own.

Jean Pierre Vidal of France turned-in a nearly flawless second run Saturday that lifted him from fourth place to his first World Cup victory in a slalom.

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) gave himself an early Christmas present Friday, hanging-up his fourth top-3 finish in six races as he was second behind Benjamin Raich of Austria in a World Cup giant slalom on an icy course in Kranjska Gora.

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), attempting to make it three World Cup wins in a row, led the first run of a giant slalom Sunday, but, attacking from the start, missed a gate on his second run.

World champion Sonja Nef of Switzerland had the fastest second run Sunday en route to her first giant slalom victory of the season, topping Sweden's Anja Paerson by .66 in 2:23.80.

World Cup leader Austrian Stephan Eberharter fattened his points lead Saturday after winning his third race of the season. Eberharter took the downhill with teammate Michael Walchhofer 2nd, .22 back.

Kristian Ghedina of Italy, whose first podium came at Val Gardena in 1990, picked up his fourth downhill victory at the Dolomites resort Friday in a race delayed because of high winds. He won in 2:01.47, edging Norwegian Lasse Kjus by .16 with Jake Fiala (Frisco, CO) posting the best U.S. result in 34th place.

A second women's super G of the World Cup season, which was rescheduled twice, finally was canceled today because of high winds and poor visibility on the Oreiller-Killy course. The race, originally scheduled for Dec. 5 in Val d'Isere, was moved to Megeve because of poor snow, only to be reschedule again, for Val d'Isere, because of poor snow in Megeve.

A day after celebrating his first World Cup victory in a giant slalom at Val d'Isere, America's Bode Miller won his second consecutive race, in Madonna di Campiglio...Clocking the best time in both runs, Miller beat by more than half a second Italy's Giorgio Rocca and by 91/100 the 1997 World Champion, Norway's Tom Stiansen.

Sweden's world champion, Anja Paerson, took the first-run lead Sunday in a World Cup slalom and held off Finland's Tanja Poutiainen for the second win of her career.

American Bode Miller yesterday became the first US male to win a World Cup GS since the success of Phil Mahre in Japan's Furano in March 1983. "It's a long time now that I've felt able to win such a race and it's good to prove it finally," the racer from New Hampshire said.

Stephan Eberharter may have felt he wasn't skiing so well but, after nearly six week's off, the Austrian showed no real signs of rustiness Friday as he won the first super G of the season.

Despite a continual light snow that started before dawn and a first-start in the field of 63 skiers, Caroline Lalive (Steamboat Springs, CO) collected the third top-3 result of her World Cup career and gave the US women their first podium.

Isolde Kostner of Italy won for the second day in a row and the third straight time wearing bib #22 at this Canadian Rockies area. Picabo Street (Park City, UT) overcame a mid-race mistake to finish 5th in the second World Cup downhill of the season with teammate Kirsten Clark (Raymond, ME) in 8th place.

You just can't hold her down. Picabo Street, who suffered multiple fractures of her lower left femur as well as ligament damage in a devastating '98 crash, took 6th in the Lake Louise World Cup downhill, her best finish since the crash.

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), smarting 24 hours after missing a chance for a possible World Cup win, ate up the second run Monday to end a nearly 14-year podium drought for U.S. men in slalom.