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Marlies Schild of Austria won her sixth World Cup slalom of the season on Saturday after overall leader Lindsey Vonn crashed out in the opening run on the Pyrenees course.

Emerging Swiss standout Beat Feuz celebrated his 25th birthday in style Saturday by winning the inaugural World Cup downhill on the course for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador returned to training for competition Friday, four days after receiving a two-year doping ban from sport's highest court.

Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger successfully defended their luge doubles title at the world championships on Friday, their third gold in the annual event.

Tom Boonen of Belgium won his fourth Tour of Qatar title on Friday, beating American Tyler Farrar.

A women's World Cup giant slalom scheduled for Friday has been canceled because of high winds in the Pyrenees mountains of Andorra.

Russian skiers appear more frequently on the World Cup ski circuit in Europe these days, their presence hard to miss at the upcoming Alpine test events for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Greece's political leaders on Thursday agreed to steep government cutbacks and economic reforms to qualify for a euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout from other countries in Europe and around the world.

Lance Armstrong says he's relieved by the end of a nearly two-year federal investigation into doping allegations against him, and that he always remained confident he would not be charged.

As far as Lance Armstrong is concerned, it's all over.

Reigning Boston Marathon champions Geoffrey Mutai and Caroline Kilel lead the field of elite runners for the 116th edition of the event.

Another former Tour de France champion was slapped with a two-year suspension for doping on Thursday, as 1997 winner Jan Ullrich was given the same penalty as Alberto Contador earlier this week.

Hours after receiving a two-year ban for blood doping, 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich admitted on his website that he had "contact" with the Spanish doctor who ran the doping program he was accused of participating in.

Michael Phelps is the latest athlete to use a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery from training.

The ongoing game of musical chairs in college athletics has its newest player.

Women will be given equal billing with men in the annual boat race between English universities Oxford and Cambridge, staging the women's race on the same day and the same course as the men's event starting in 2015.

Didier Cuche called it "magnificent." Bode Miller was highly critical. Aksel Lund Svindal said the course for the 2014 Sochi Olympics was "what downhill is all about."

French police raided the home of cycling great Jeannie Longo on Wednesday and arrested her husband on suspicion that he bought doses of the banned performance-enhancer EPO.

Sport's highest court will issue a second verdict this week involving a doping case against a Tour de France winner.

Alberto Contador vowed Tuesday to return to the pinnacle of cycling, maintaining his innocence in the face of a two-year doping ban that stripped the Spanish star of his 2010 Tour de France title.

Alberto Contador should be considered a "cheat" after being found guilty of doping and stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday.

The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday urged U.S. federal authorities to quickly hand over evidence collected in their lengthy probe into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and doping in American cycling.

Steven Whitney had two short-handed goals in the second period and Johnny Gaudreau also scored twice to lift Boston College to a 7-1 victory over Northeastern in the 60th Beanpot tournament Monday night.

Stripping Alberto Contador of his 2010 Tour de France victory on the supposition that he may have eaten a dodgy food supplement is like jailing Al Capone for tax evasion: Yes, Contador's accusers secured a conviction, but the verdict missed the point.

The Pac-12 Conference's Board of Directors has unanimously extended the contract of commissioner Larry Scott through 2016.

Eddy Merckx wonders if someone is trying to "kill cycling."

Iranian authorities have arrested several people over alleged links to the British Broadcasting Corporation's Farsi-language service, Iran's semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Monday.

Cyclist Alberto Contador of Spain has been suspended for two years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found the three-time Tour de France champ guilty of a doping offense.

Three days after U.S. prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title when sports' highest court rejected the Spanish cyclist's story that contaminated meat caused him to fail a drug test.

Nearing a verdict on his Tour de France doping case after a 17-month wait, Alberto Contador finished 98th in the Mallorca Challenge on Sunday.