11.   On Tuesday, Karin Ruby of France won her third world championship title, edging teammate Isabelle Blanc in the giant slalom.

12.   Ruben Maza set a Venezuelan national record and qualified for the Olympics by edging teammate Carlos Tarazona to win the Pittsburgh Marathon on Sunday.

13.   The Brazilian edged teammate Michael Schumacher by just two tenths of a second.

14.   Third went to the French couple Sophie Moniotte and Pascal Lavanchy, who edged teammates Marina Anissina and Gwendel Peizerat.

15.   Unheralded Austrian Siegfried Voglreiter edged teammate Thomas Sykora and Frenchman Sebastien Amiez in the first run of a World Cup slalom Tuesday.

16.   Villeneuve edged the teammate in qualifying to clinch his fourth consecutive pole position this season.

17.   World Cup leader Hermann Maier edged teammate Andreas Schifferer by three hundredths of a second to clinch his third season victory.