Alcohol ruled out in Althaus ski crash
Investigators on Friday said they have ruled out alcohol in the deadly ski collision that seriously injured Thuringia’s state premier Dieter Althaus and killed a Slovakian woman on New Year’s Day in Austria.
Witness emerges in deadly Althaus accident
Police are questioning a single witness in the ski collision that seriously injured Thuringia’s state premier Dieter Althaus and killed a Slovakian woman on New Year’s Day. Meanwhile doctors have said that the politician can’t remember how the accident occurred.
Riesch bags third World Cup slalom win in Zagreb
German skier Maria Riesch won her third successive World Cup slalom in Zagreb on Sunday in the latest leg of the World Cup series and took the lead in the overall standings off American Lindsey Vonn.
Althaus conscious and speaking after accident
Thuringia’s state premier Dieter Althaus was successfully revived from his artificial coma on Saturday morning and is able to speak, after his life-threatening collision with another skier in Austria on New Year’s Day.
Loitzl shocks Ammann to take Garmisch ski jump honours
Wolfgang Loitzl of Austria won the second stage of the annual Four Hills event at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in southern Germany on Thursday.
Three Germans die in Austrian avalanches
Three Germans died in avalanches in Austria over the weekend, news agency APA reported on Monday.