MOSCOW, Russia (Feb. 21) - Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) ripped through the head-to-head style parallel slalom to win under the lights for her second Audi FIS Alpine World Cup win this season. Teammate Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) tacked another 60 points to her immense overall World Cup lead with third on the 170 foot tall ramp built in Luznhiki Olympic Complex as thousands of fans braved the fridgid Moscow tempuratures. The event, presented by Soelden, the official European Training base of the U.S. Ski Team, capped a brilliant showcase of alpine skiing in Russia, host country for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

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BANSKO, Bulgaria (Feb. 19) - Nolan Kasper (Warren, VT) and Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) produced strong second runs to finish sixth and seventh at an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom in Bansko that saw Austrian Marcel Hirscher win. Kasper, standing 23rd after the first run, laid down the second fastest final run as Ligety landed in the top-10 for the second straight race. Hirscher was unbeatable in Bansko and climbed within 18 points of World Cup overll leader Ivica Kostelic of Croatia.

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SOCHI, Russia (Feb. 19) - The Sochi organizing committee made every effort to prepare the 2014 Olympic speed track, but overnight snow and warm temperatures made the surface too unstable to host the third Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super combined. The race will not be rescheduled later in the season, therefore Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) will be awarded the super combined title at World Cup Finals with a victory and a second in the two completed races. It was the 14th World Cup title for Vonn, who clinched her fifth consecutive downhill title Saturday as part of a record breaking day that saw four U.S. women in the top 10. The World Cup tour now flies to Moscow for a night parallel slalom at the Luzhniki 1980 Olympic Complex.

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BANSKO, Bulgaria (Feb. 18) - Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) survived a near crash in his second run dropping him from first to 27th on the day and out of the lead of the giant slalom standings for the first time this season. In a stumble he missed a gate that whipped him and cut his face. Ligety hiked uphill to navigate the gate and stay in the race, leading to his finish seven seconds back. Austrian Marcel Hirscher won to jump 81 points in front of Ligety with three giant slalom races remaining in the season. American Tommy Ford (Bend, OR) finished a career-best 12th.

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SOCHI, Russia (Feb. 18) - American women rewrote the record books Saturday as Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) finsished third, Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA) sixth, Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) ninth and Alice McKennis (Glenwood Springs, CO) 10th to place four American women in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill top 10 for the first time in history. The record setting team performance, which included all Americans finishing in the top 30, happened at Rosa Khutor Resort - alpine host of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The last time U.S.