Sporting Digest: Skiing

WORLD CUP MEN'S DOWNHILL (Val Gardena, It) Leading practice times: 1 K Ghedina (It) 2min 08.70sec; 2 P Vitalini (It) 2:09.10; 3 W Perathoner (It) 2:09.55; 4 P Ortlieb (Aut) 2:09.65; 5 Przehak (Aut) 2:09.78; 6 W Franz (Aut) 2:09.84; 7 J-L Cretier (Fr) 2:09.89; 8 E Podivinsky (Can) 2:09.95; 9 A Skaardal (Nor) 2:10.02; 10 G Mader (Aut) 2:10.26.

WORLD CUP WOMEN'S DOWNHILL (St Anton, Aut) Leading practice times: 1 B Perez (It) 1min 32.67sec; 2 S Schuster (Aut) +0.66sec behind; 3 J Lunde (Nor) +0.89; 4 A Wachter (Aut) +1.21; 5 A Meisnitzer (Aut) +1.23; 6 V Zelenskaja (Rus) +1.26; 7 H Lindh (US) +1.28; 8 A Haas (Aut) +1.42; 9 V Stallmaier (Aut) +1.54; 10 K Lee-Gartner (Can) +1.63. Selected: 15 P Wiberg (Swe) +1.81