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Lindsey Vonn skied through pain in her left knee to win another super-G race Sunday, claiming her sixth victory of the season by a small margin over German rival Maria Riesch.
It was the second win in three days for Vonn, who also finished first in a super-G Friday on the Olympia delle Tofane course.
Vonn clocked 1 minute, 22.64 seconds on another perfectly clear day in the Dolomite range, beating overall World Cup leader Riesch by a mere 0.05 seconds. Swiss teenager Lara Gut finished third, 0.88 back  … Details
Professional rider Rowan Brandreth (23) is a two-time winner of the British student boardercross championships and recently joined the line-up of snowboarders representing Great Britain in the 2011 season.
He competes in Snowboard Cross (SBX) where groups of rival boarders race down a mountain, edging each other out of the way, to cross the finish line first. Onthesnow caught up with him during a miniscule break from training to find out how life has changed for the promising athlete … More
Retallack Lodge in the southern interior of British Columbia harbors some of the most impressive cat accessed tree skiing anywhere in the world. Big steep fall lines that are littered with pillow stacks provide an adrenaline rush that is hard to beat on the slopes. In this video, I ride through some of Retallack’s infamous forrest environments, and the legendary kootenay blower was certainly in abundance