Topic: Daniel Albrecht

Ligety wins giant slalom, Albrecht wins hearts

American Ted Ligety won the men's Alpine skiing World Cup giant slalom season opener on home soil on Sunday, completing two runs in a combined total time of 2min 37.67sec.Norway's Kjetil Jansrud was second, 0.82 of a ...
Hot Ligety! US skier Ted Ligety wins World Cup GS race in Beaver Creek; Miller finishes 27thIn the lead, Ted Ligety let it loose.No holding anything back on this run.The U.S. skier attacked the exhausting Birds of Prey course ...

Alpine skiing Survivor Daniel Albrecht finally back on track

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) - When Daniel Albrecht suffered a horrific training accident 22 months ago, it looked as if his skiing career was over. This week, the 2007 super-combined world champion was back racing down the slopes.He was six seconds slower ...

Daniel Albrecht

Skiing champion Daniel Albrecht sustained a threatening head injury on January 22, 2009 while practicing a World Cup downhill run on a course in Kitzbühel, Austria. Swiss Skier Albrecht Stable a Day After Ugly Crash (January 23, 2009) After crashing, Albrecht ...

Carlo Janka

Carlo Jenka was born October 15th , 1986 in Obersaxen, Switzerland . Jenka decided to choose alpine skiing over soccer due to his inspiration of Austrian star Hermann Maier at the 1998 Nagano Games . In December 2009 , Jenka managed to win three alpine events ...

Cuche wins season opener in Soelden

SOELDEN, Austria (Reuters) - Didier Cuche ensured the Alpine skiing season opener remained in Swiss hands when he won the Soelden giant slalom on Sunday.Beaten into second place by compatriot Daniel Albrecht in the Austrian resort last winter, Cuche, who went on ...
Hospital says Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht needs 'highly specialized' treatmentSwiss skier Daniel Albrecht will require further specialized medical care following a downhill training crash last month.Bern University's hospital, the Inselspital, said Friday that Albrecht needs total peace and quiet and ...
Swiss skier Albrecht suffers no permanent health damage after coma following downhill crashSwiss skier Daniel Albrecht will suffer no permanent damage to his health from brain and lung injuries following his downhill training crash last month, doctors said Friday.Albrecht woke up ...
=(Picture)=Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal kept his cool to add to his collection of world medals when he stormed to victory in the men's super combined event at the World Ski Championships here on Monday.Svindal, who won downhill and ...
Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal set the pace in the downhill section of the men's world super combined here on Monday, as one of the big pre-race favourites, Benjamin Raich, bombed out.Svindal, who won two golds in the 2007 worlds ...