The full name for the race is the super giant slalom and it was first included in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
However, Canada's Kucera lost the chance to compete in his home Olympics when he broke his left leg after crashing in the super-giant slalom at Lake Louise in Alberta last month.
In just the last few weeks, more than 1, 000 people have protested at ExxonMobil and Russia Lukoil's super-giant West Qurna oil field, demanding jobs and payment for private land that has been lost or damaged by oil operations.
Add to this the work of Matthew Simmons, who in his 2005 book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, analyzed papers presented at Petroleum Engineering conferences, and concluded that the super-giant Ghawar field would soon enter a period of decline.
Shiffrin's victory is the U.S.'s fourth of the championships -- adding to Ted Ligety's wins in the Super-G, the Giant Slalom and the Super Combined -- and consolidates their place at the top of the medal's table with a total of four gold and one bronze.
Indeed, does anyone think the 2008 New York Giant Super Bowl Champion team was better than the New England Patriots that they beat?
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Maze also won the super-G gold at the recent world championships in Schladming in Austria and claimed two silvers in the super-combined and giant slalom.
Ligety, who had won gold in the Super-G, super-combined and giant slalom, was the first man to achieve such a feat since Claude Killy in 1968.
Orders for the giant A380 super-jumbo have slowed to a trickle, well short of the numbers needed to break even, and there are rumours of cost over-runs.
The Ministry of Justice plans to close seven old jails in England and Wales, and is considering building a giant "super prison" capable of housing more than 2, 000 inmates.
Rewind four years to the last Giant-Patriots Super Bowl.
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They are formed by giant magnetic fields channelling the super-hot gas into certain directions.
Finland's Tanja Poutianen finished fourth while Slovakia's Tina Maze -- who took gold in the Super-G and silver in the Giant Slalom -- finished fifth.
Airbus will be touting its A380 superjumbo while rival Boeing will be seeking orders for its giant 747-8 and its super-efficient 787 Dreamliner.
And, D, the Super Bowl is so corporatized, it's all giant mega-companies have hospitality tents and they give away the tickets to their best clients or their best sales people for that given year.
There are still a few chains that might fit well into Ahold's U.S. network, such as Giant Eagle in Pennsylvania or the privately held Publix Super Markets chain, based in Florida.
And so the spirit of a professional sporting event or even a college event that you usually get - partisans going crazy and the energy and the spirit of having fans who love the teams - that's all watered down by the fact that the Super Bowl is something that transcends sports and really is a giant corporate event.
The fact that she had done so well in the super-G, which was even less her discipline than the giant slalom, made me think that we were about to witness something pretty special.
Besides getting super close to seals, penguins, flamingos, sea lions and giant tortoises, one other appeal of the land-based trips is (at least for those prone to seasickness) guests sleep in hotels every night.
Maze has already secured the overall and giant slalom titles and now leads in the slalom and the super-G disciplines.
That giant dandelion coming undone during Hollie Cavanagh's rendition of "Honesty" was super creepy.
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"First, this icy 'super-Earth' dominates the region around its star that in our Solar System is populated by the gas-giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, " he said.
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The details of the partnership, which also include a five million contribution from the apparel giant, Under Armour, were the follow-up after an initial announcement of the partnership over the Super Bowl weekend last month in New Orleans.
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