By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Jumping Jehosephats and tarnation, Batman.Ted Ligety not winning a giant slalom at Birds of Prey on Sunday was possible. As noted in this space, there were 66 other guys in the field who weren’t going to roll over and play dead.Did anyone see a DNF coming?Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?We’re not […]
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Ted Ligety did not make the giant slalom podium at Birds of Prey for the first time since 2007 — he finished fourth that year — after catching an edge and falling to a DNF result while Tim Jitloff and David Chodounsky earned World Cup points Sunday. Ligety’s only […]
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Jumping Jehosephats and tarnation, Batman.Ted Ligety not winning a giant slalom at Birds of Prey on Sunday was possible. As noted in this space, there were 66 other guys in the field who weren’t going to roll over and play dead.Did anyone see a DNF coming?Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?We’re not […]
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Aggressive was the word of the day at Sunday’s Birds of Prey giant slalom.“The hill’s in good shape,” American Ted Ligety, who won six of his last seven races at Beaver Creek, said after he crashed and finished with a rare DNF. “The snow’s just super aggressive — more […]
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By Chris Freud 1 HIRSCHER Marcel 2:32.58 2 MUFFAT-JEANDET V. 2:33.56 3 KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik 2:33.89 4 MYHRER Andre 2:33.90 5 NEUREUTHER Felix 2:34.07 6 EISATH Florian 2:34.11 7 FAIVRE Mathieu 2:34.19 8 TONETTI Riccardo 2:34.209 SCHOERGHOFER Philipp 2:34.23 10 LEITINGER Roland 2:34.25 11 CAVIEZEL Gino 2:34.67 12 HAUGEN Leif Kristian 2:34.71 13 DE AL
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By Chris Freud BEAVER CREEK — Call it a passing of the torch in many ways.Austrian Marcel Hirscher not only unseated American Ted Ligety, who was a DNF in the first run, as the champion of the Birds of Prey World Cup giant slalom on Sunday. He also made some Austrian ski-racing history.Hirscher blew away […]
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By Chris Freud 1 HIRSCHER Marcel 2:32.58 2 MUFFAT-JEANDET V. 2:33.56 3 KRISTOFFERSEN Henrik 2:33.89 4 MYHRER Andre 2:33.90 5 NEUREUTHER Felix 2:34.07 6 EISATH Florian 2:34.11 7 FAIVRE Mathieu 2:34.19 8 TONETTI Riccardo 2:34.209 SCHOERGHOFER Philipp 2:34.23 10 LEITINGER Roland 2:34.25 11 CAVIEZEL Gino 2:34.67 12 HAUGEN Leif Kristian 2:34.71 13 DE AL
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By Pam Boyd EAGLE — Mayor Yuri Kostick said the public will have a chance to speak near the beginning of Tuesday’s Town Board meeting and before the board decides whether to go into executive session to discuss suspended Town Manager Jon Stavney’s employment status.The question arose when the town distributed an agenda markedly differ
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By Edward Stoner EAGLE COUNTY — If there’s one thing that’s very apparent about the Vail Valley, it’s that it’s full of good people doing good things, both locally and internationally. I was glad to join that altruistic movement last fall by volunteering my time through Photographers Without Borders (www.photographerswitho
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By scott miller EAGLE COUNTY — Lodging’s big bounce-back from the depths of the national economic slump in 2009 and 2010 has slowed. But the overall picture remains positive.Destimetrics, a Denver-based market research company, focuses on resort lodging. According to that firm’s latest figures, reservations for the first half of Decem
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