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Click below to take the quick survey. Your favorites will featured in 2008-09 Ski preview sections in newspapers across the Northwest. Voters from around the region – Idaho, Washington, Oregon and B.C. – are participating so make sure your favorites are well represented.

2008-09 Snow Ride Guide Survey

Interesting story in the Vancouver Sun this week. Apparently some athletes are complaining that the Nordic venue is too easy.



Check out the article here.

Just got word from the U.S. Ski Team that Phil Mahre’s bid to qualify for U.S. Alpine Nationals this year has come up just short. Mahre of Yakima is 50-years-old and won a gold in the 1984 Olympic slalom. He started his comeback last season and impressed a lot of people despite coming up short of his goal. He turned down a special invitation to ski at nationals because he wanted to qualify on his own.

Cle Elum’s Patrick Deneen was named the FIS rookie of the year and celebrated Saturday by finishing third in a race in Italy. Teammate David Babic of Vermont took gold.

Here’s the release from the U.S. Ski Team:

The U.S. Ski Team’s David Babic (Washington, VT) went all out to bring home his first World Cup win of the season, and second of his career, in moguls at the 2008 Freestyle FIS World Cup Finals in Italy Saturday. Newly named FIS Rookie of the Year Patrick Deneen (Cle Elum, WA) finished third.

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It’s seemed inevitable for sometime now that Lindsey Vonn would someday be crowned queen of the ski world.

The coronation was this morning when she became the first U.S. woman to win the World Cup overall title since Tamara McKinney in 1983.

As McKinney drove her kids to ski training at Squaw Valley USA this afternoon she talked about finally having to relinquish her title as the only American woman to win the overall.

"It’s great to see another generation be able to get up there and be consistently at the top of the world in skiing,"

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2006 olympic gold medalist won the World Cup season giant Slalom today.



Click here to read the AP report.

Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller have clinched the women’s and men’s overall World Cup titles. It is the first time since 1983 – and the second time ever – the U.S. has won both titles in the same year.

From U.S. Skiing:

Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) completed her best slalom race of the season, finishing 11th and capturing enough points to clinch the Audi FIS World Cup overall title Friday during World Cup Finals in Bormio, Italy. Vonn, who rallied from a first run finish of 25th to win the second run by a .19 margin,

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OK, folks. I’ve received your calls and e-mails. The biggest questions so far are about the schedule.

Well, this ought to help you out. Click below to download the 2010 competition schedule. It probably goes without saying considering we have two years to go, but times and dates are subject to change.

Thanks for the e-mails and comments. Keep them coming.

2010 Olympic Day-by-day competition schedule