Sunday's sports briefs

Miller victory boosts overall lead American Bode Miller was far from his best in the slalom portion of Sunday's World Cup super-combi in Val D'Isere, France, and that might be why the American both won the race and clinched the discipline title.

"I was at 40 percent in the slalom," Miller said after winning in a combined time of 2 minutes, 18.45 seconds. "I know that if I'm at 100 percent in the slalom, chances are that I won't finish."

Miller's 30th victory on the World Cup circuit, and fifth this season, was enough to give him his third super-combi title with 410 points. He won the discipline in 2003 and 2004. The victory also increased Miller's lead in the overall World Cup standings.

Miller has 1,067 points after 28 races. Benjamin Raich of Austria is second with 945.

• If Burnsville's Lindsey (Kildow) Vonn doesn't go on to win the women's World Cup overall title, she might look back on races like Sunday's super-G. She came in fourth, missing a podium finish by 0.01 seconds.

"This is like the fifth time that I'm one-hundredth off the podium, and it's just a little bit disappointing," she said. "The fourth place is a really hard place to be, especially when it's only one hundredth."

Vonn finished 0.30 behind winner Emily Brydon of Canada. "It's disappointing to be so close to the podium -- yesterday it was seven hundredths," Vonn said of tying for fifth in the downhill in foggy conditions Saturday. "These races have been so close it'll be hard to look at video and find where I lost a hundredth."

The other Americans fared even worse. Libby Ludlow was 27th, posting the second-best American result, and Julia Mancuso finished a disappointing 38th.

• Shani Davis of the United States won the 1,500-meter race, and Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic won the 3,000 to clinch the overall title Sunday at a speedskating World Cup event in Baselga Di Pine, Italy.

• Three-time Olympic champion Andre Lange of Germany picked up his first victory in more than a year in a four-man bobsled World Cup race in Koenigsee, Germany. Steven Holcomb of the United States was third.

U.S. rained out; 3 others gain Steady rain in San Diego washed out Sunday's matches at the Fed Cup quarterfinal between Germany and the United States, forcing organizers to try again today.

The winner will move on to face defending champion Russia, which reached the semifinals behind Maria Sharapova, who won two matches over the weekend, and. China and Spain also reached the semifinals.

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