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For the Super-G, men's skis must be at least 205cm long, and women's skis at least 200cm long.
BBC: Sport - Winter Sports - Alpine skiing: Super-G
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Edinburgh's Arthur, 30, will make the first defence of his WBO super-featherweight crown at the MEN Arena.
BBC: Cook warns confident rival Arthur
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And with Sochi on the horizon, U.S. teammate Ted Ligety, who won the men's super-G Wednesday also offered Vonn his support.
CNN: Vonn faces races against time
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Vonn was expected to lead the U.S. medal charge in Austria, but Ligety took the men's super-G title to compensate for her early exit -- his first ever major victory in that discipline.
CNN: Ligety claims second gold as U.S. tops medals table
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He had already won the men's super-G crown.
BBC: Maier takes World Cup crown
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The comic book company owns the rights to such high-profile super heroes as Spider Man, Iron Man and The X-Men.
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They are like the super-smart, super-pretty, overachieving big sister who gets into Stanford while the men have looked, at times, like the gawky, pimply, teenage little brother, slouching his way self-consciously through the halls of a high school.
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Elsewhere, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway won the men's World Cup super-G title with victory at Kvitfjell.
CNN: Ski star Maze receives death threat
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Add to that the fact that New Orleans will be front and center on the world stage for much of the next decade, hosting a series of national and international sporting events, including Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, back-to-back NCAA Men's and Women's Final Fours, and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship in 2012, among many others.
CNN: New Orleans is storming back
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According to a study released by Social TV metrics company Bluefin Labs this morning, men won by a landslide in the tweet-off over Super Tuesday results.
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The feeling that a national celebration was under way was super-charged within 30 minutes of Ennis's victory, when Team GB's Mo Farah won the men's 10, 000 meters and Greg Rutherford won the long jump.
WSJ: Social Media