Vancouver (AFP) - Canada ensured it will finish its home Olympic Winter Games with more gold than anyone else Saturday as Italy's Giuliano Razzoli won the slalom to condemn once-proud Austria to their worst men's alpine showing since 1936.
On the penultimate day of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, the Canadians had 13 gold after capturing three more Saturday. Germany have 10 and the United States nine.
MOSCOW (AP)—Aaron March of Italy has won a parallel slalom for his first World Cup win, while Doris Guenther led an Austrian sweep in the women’s event.
March edged Vancouver Olympics silver medalist Benjamin Karl of Austria by 0.14 seconds on Saturday. Italy’s Roland Fischnaller beat Kaspar Fleutsch of Switzerland for third.
Guenther beat teammate Heidi Neururer by 0.13 seconds in the restart of the second run in the finals. Julia Dujmovits took third Alena Zavarzina of Russia.
Vancouver (AFP) - Canadian veteran Jasey Jay Anderson rose to the challange and upset Austrian favourite Benjamin Karl to win the men's snowboard parallel slalom gold on Saturday and spark more celebrations for the host country.
The 34-year-old was behind after his first run but powered through his second in heavy fog on Cypress Mountain to beat Karl, the 2009 parallel slalom world champion, by 0.35sec, with France's Matthieu Bozzetto claiming the bronze.
Snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Que., won gold in men's parallel giant slalom Saturday at Cypress Mountain.
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canadian snowboarder Jasey Jay Anderson overcame dismal conditions on Saturday to win gold in the Olympic men's parallel giant slalom watched by his two young daughters.
SportsAnderson thrilled the rain-soaked crowd at the last event on weather-challenged Cypress Mountain as he raced through the dense fog and squeezed past Austria's Benjamin Karl to win.
The Canadian started with a slight time deficit after the first run of the final but made up ground coming down the course and finished a few board lengths ahead of Karl.
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada's Jasey Jay Anderson thrilled the rain-soaked crowd as he raced through fog and squeezed past Austria's Benjamin Karl to win gold in the Olympic men's snowboarding parallel giant slalom on Saturday.
SportsAnderson started with a slight time deficit after the first run of the final but made up ground in the middle of the second and finished a few board lengths ahead of Karl who took the silver.
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—Jasey-Jay Anderson of Canada has won the Olympic gold medal in parallel giant slalom, overcoming Austria’s Benjamin Karl for the victory.
Anderson began the second of the two-race final Saturday with a .76-second deficit, but kept carving away at the lead and crossed .35 seconds ahead of the world’s top-ranked rider.
Mathieu Bozzetto of France won bronze.
Vancouver (AFP) - Austrians Benjamin Karl and Andreas Prommegger go into Saturday's men's parallel giant slalom as the top two in the world rankings but could face a shootout with the powerful Canadians.
Karl, the 2009 parallel slalom world champion, is well clear at the top of the World Cup points list, but lurking in third and fourth spots are Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada and his teammate Michael Lambert.
