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October 29, 2007

Denise Karbon Leading Female Alpine Skiing World Cup

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FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup was opened on last weekend in Soelden, Austria. The winner of ladies giant slalom was Italian 27 years old Denise Karbon for whom this was the second world cup victory. Denise, who skis with Fischer, has overcome her knee injury and is back in the top of alpine skiing. Her time was 2.23,21.

American Julia Mancuso took the second place with time 2.23,54 and the third one was Austrian Kathrin Zettel with time 2.23,73. Finnish Tanja Poutiainen led the race in the beginning but was not able to keep the first place until the end of the race. She took the fourth place with time 2.23,78.

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Marko Pyhajarvi
I am an old-school alpine skier, snowboarder and telemarker, and I love writing. Therefore I founded Homeboy. I (too) enjoy powder, mountaineering and backcountry skiing as well as photographing. Nowadays, as an old fart, I mostly ski with my kids and focus on financing their hobbies.




 
 

 
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