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World Cup leader Kostelic undergoes knee surgery
The Croatian ski association says overall World Cup leader Ivica Kostelic will undergo knee surgery Monday in Basel, Switzerland, after tests showed a partial tear in his right meniscus.
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Kingsbury, Marquis 1-2 for Canada in moguls
Canadians Mikael Kingsbury and Philippe Marquis finished 1-2 in men's moguls on Sunday at the freestyle skiing World Cup in China. Kingsbury, from Deux-Montagnes, Que., took gold with a score of 26.53.
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Worley wins windy GS, Gagnon 7th
Tessa Worley of France fought off gusting winds to win a second consecutive World Cup giant slalom Sunday in the Andorran Pyrenees while overall leader Lindsey Vonn finished eighth.
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blogVanderbeek: Canadian skiers have aura of confidence
With new courses comes new excitement. Both Andorra and Sochi hosted World Cup events for the first time this week. Luckily, these tracks continued to favour the Canadians and strengthened their momentum that began two weeks ago.
Ivica Kostelic captured his second consecutive World Cup super-combined title with a victory Sunday on the 2014 Sochi Olympics course, then hobbled off with an injured right knee that that might need surgery.
The Canadians made a last-minute decision to compete in the U.S. Grand Prix and it paid off as Montreal's Chris Del Bosco and Marielle Thompson of Whistler, B.C., swept gold in skicross on Saturday.
Benjamin Thomsen, of Invermere, B.C., was second in a World Cup event Saturday at Krasnaya Polyana, the inaugural event on the course for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen edged Martin Fourcade of France to win the men's World Cup 12.5-kilometre pursuit in Kontiolahti, Finland on Sunday, while Kaisa Makarainen of Finland won the women's race on home soil.
Johan Olsson of Sweden and Marit Bjoergen of Norway won the classical style mass start World Cup cross-country ski events Saturday.
Georg Streitberger led the third and final World Cup downhill training session Friday on the course that will be used for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.