L a t e s t  n e w s ..... Vonn stuns slalom specialists to win in Levi with Pieitiae Holmer second and Maria Riesch in third.... Grange wins mens race from Miller and Kostelic .... Chemmy Alcott suffers clean break of ankle in training in North America, expected to be out till New Year .... Lindsey Vonn injures left knee in training Super G in Copper Mountain, no lay off details announced

'The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams' (Eleanor Roosevelt).

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Short pieces from Soelden:

Hans Knauss has decided to sue the company that provided him with the nutrional supplements that caused him to be positively drug tested.  Daron Rahlves admits that this season could be his last (interview to be posted on the website soon).  Miller admits that he enjoyed the flirting when training alongside the American Girls team earlier in the week.  German men's team is decimated in the new season wsith German coaches admitting in the FIS forum that only Felix Neureuther will start the men's world cup this season - Max Rauffer and Florian Eckhardt both having retired. Hans Knauss fresh from taking on American lawyer to sue nutrition company will also be an analyst for the Austrian broadcaster ORF this season.  Knauss was at the Fischer press conference interviewing this season's stable of Fischer racers. Sunday's race will Bode Miller's 115th successive World Cup race.