The slalom victory -- the fourth of his World Cup career -- lifted Miller into third place in the overall standings with a month of racing left. With two giant slalom wins among his podiums this season, and an eighth place in last weekend's downhill, Miller's point total stands at 984, behind Austrians Hermann Maier (1,054) and Benjamin Raich (985).
It's a Green day
Dartmouth ended Middlebury's three-carnival win streak Saturday, as the Big Green won the 94th annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival in Hanover, N.H.
It marked the first time since 1974-75 that the Big Green has won its own carnival in back-to-back years.
Dartmouth won with 777 points, Vermont was second with 729, and Middlebury was third with 713.
The next competition on the circuit is the Williams Winter Carnival tomorrow and Saturday in Williamstown.
Are you down for it?
There's still time to sign up for Sunday's Stowe Derby. Run by the Mount Mansfield Ski and Snowboard Club, the 10-mile race down Vermont's highest peak leads smack into the village of Stowe. The oldest downhill cross-country ski race in North America started in 1945 as a challenge between Austrian downhiller Sepp Ruschp and Norwegian cross-country skier Erling Strom. The race attracts both recreational and elite racers . . . Cross-country skiers have a new pathway to ski in Crawford Notch, N.H. The 5-kilometer green circle Highlands Trail, which opened Saturday, crosses through the White Mountain National Forest to the Bretton Woods Nordic Center . . . Gunstock's new high-speed quad was up and running the day after a mechanical failure on the Panorama summit lift forced evacuation of about 200 skiers and snowboarders Sunday. No injuries were reported, and management at the Gilford, N.H., area gave evacuated skiers and riders a voucher for a day of skiing. It took about three hours to get everyone down . . . An American made it to the podium in China's first World Cup skiing event. Joe Pack, an Olympic silver medalist, finished second in Sunday's aerials behind Canadian World Cup leader Steve Omischl . . . American Todd Lodwick skied to third place in a World Cup Nordic combined sprint in Oberstdorf, Germany, won by Cup leader Hannu Manninen of Finland Sunday.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
