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| Marion Rolland of France narrowly wins women's downhill worlds
SCHLADMING,[url=http://www.huh456.com/]christian louboutin sale[/url], Australia, Feb. 10 () -- Marion Rolland of France narrowly won the women's downhill at the Alpine World Championships in Austria Sunday.Rolland won the first World Championships medal of her career with a time of 1 minute, 50.00 seconds, edging Italy's Nadia Fanchini by a mere 0.16 seconds.Maria Hoefl-Riesch of German placed third,[url=http://www.godsdrama.com/]true religion outlet[/url], 0.70 seconds behind Rolland, who started in the 22nd position on the icy course. "This is like a dream to me," said Rolland, who raised France's medal totals for the worlds to three. "It was absolutely breath-taking today."Americans Julia Mancuso and Stacy Cook placed fifth and sixth respectively. Overall World Cup points leader Tina Maze of Slovenia placed seventh. |
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