Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001
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TRAA WINS GOLD (AGAIN)
Freestyle World Championships Close

BLACKCOMB, B.C. (Jan. 21) - The sun broke through the clouds in time for
France's Stephane Yonnet and Norway's Kari Traa to secure the dual mogul
titles at the FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships. This is Traa's
second world championship title for the week winning single moguls on
Friday.

Only two Americans made it into finals both Ann Battelle (Steamboat
Springs, CO) and Jillian Vogtli (Park City, UT) finishing sixth and
eighth, respectfully. This is Battelle's first event back from a
preseason shoulder injury . "I'm not happy but I'm coming back from an
injury so I have to give myself a little bit of credit .while I didn't
do great it is still a confidence builder and I hope I can carry it in
to next week," she said.

"There were some good moments of skiing but no one really put together a
super solid run so that was disappointing," said U.S. Moguls Technical
Coach Liz McIntyre. "It's a difficult course and you can't afford to
make any mistakes on it and this is the first duals [of the season] and
we haven't really been concentrating much on duals although I think it
is a good way for the skiers to push their limits."

Vogtli skied against tough competition including '98 Olympic gold
medalist Tae Satoya (Japan) and Aiko Uemura (Japan), currently ranked
fifth in the world.  "I'm really happy with the way I skied against the
people I skied against and I took my skiing up a few notches today.  I'm
just pushing it .it was a lot faster than I've been skiing so I'm just
getting use to that feeling . to ski it down rather than fighting it
down," said Vogtli.

The U.S. men's team had disappointing results with rookie Ryan Riley
(Steamboat Springs, CO) being the top American just missing the last
round prior to the finals.  Earlier in the rounds he knocked out fellow
teammate Toby Dawson (Vail, CO).

World Cup competition resumes Jan. 27-28 at Sunday River, Maine.

FIS WORLD FREESTYLE SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS
Whistler, British Columbia
Jan. 21, 2001
Dual Moguls

MEN
1. Stephane Yonnet, France
2. Patrik Sundberg, Sweden
3. Johan Gregoire, France
4. Mikko Ronkainen, Finland
5. Janne Lahtela, Finland
6. Adrian Costa, Australia
7. Jim Schiman, Canada
8. Grischa Weber, Germany

WOMEN
1. Kari Traa, Norway
2. Corinne Bodmer, Switzerland
3. Tami Bradley, Canada
4. Aiko Uemura, Japan
5. Sylvia Kerfoot, Canada
6. Ann Battelle (Steamboat Springs, CO)
7. Tae Satoya, Japan
8. Jillian Vogtli (Park City, UT)

For complete results from today's competition, follow these links to the
FIS website:

Women's Dual Moguls final results:
http://www.fis-ski.com/imagestore/img104_002061.pdf

Men's Dual Moguls final results:
http://www.fis-ski.com/imagestore/img104_002062.pdf

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