Vonn takes victory in super combined

Lindsey Vonn won a World Cup super-combined race Friday in Val d'Isere, France, for her 25th career victory.

The Burnsville native, who led by a massive 1.52 seconds after the downhill, overcame poor visibility in the slalom run and finished with a combined time of 2 minutes, 37.55 seconds. Vonn posted the seventh-best time of the slalom run after skiing conservatively under light snow and freezing temperatures.

"Slalom is not my best discipline," she said. "Downhill is working really well for me right now. My goal was just to have a solid downhill run so I wouldn't have to risk too much in the slalom."

Maria Riesch of Germany was 1.16 seconds behind, and they are tied for the lead in the overall standings with 521 points. Elisabeth Goergl of Austria, who prevented Vonn from winning three consecutive races this month when she narrowly beat her in a super-G in Lake Louise, was 1.39 seconds back in third.

It was Vonn's third victory of the season.

• Bode Miller overcame a sore ankle to finish fifth in a World Cup super-G in Val Gardena, Italy. Miller has finished fourth once and fifth twice this season. Defending World Cup winner Aksel Lund Svindal won the race.

• Megan Sweeney, 22, beat out her 16-year-old sister, Emily, for a berth on the U.S. Olympic women's luge team, and will join world champion Erin Hamlin and Julia Clukey on the U.S. roster. The U.S. men's team includes White Bear Lake's Tony Benshoof.

Players honor Woods Tiger Woods was voted the PGA Tour player of the year by the players for the 10th time.

Woods, who has taken a leave from to the tour to address marital problems, won six PGA Tour events, captured the FedEx Cup and its $10 million bonus, won the money title for the ninth time in his career with more than $10.5 million, and had the lowest scoring average for the ninth time.

Marc Leishman of Australia was voted PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, despite not winning a single tour event.

U.S. medley relays set records Michael Phelps and Jessica Hardy helped the U.S. men's and women's teams set short-course world records in the 400-meter medley relays at the Duel in the Pool in Manchester, England.

The American men clocked 3 minutes, 20.71 seconds. Phelps swam the third leg and was joined by Nick Thoman, Mark Gangloff and Nathan Adrian. They broke the mark of 3:23.33 set by Canada in August.

Hardy swam the second leg for the women, and teammates Margaret Hoelzer, Dana Volmer and Amanda Weir finished in 3:47.97, beating the 3:49.45 set by Canada this fall.

• Brazil's Cesar Cielo set a world record in the 50-meter freestyle, clocking 20.91 seconds in a meet in Sao Paulo. The old mark was 20.94, by Frederick Bousquet of France set on April 26. Cielo also holds the world record for 100 meters ( 46.91).

Auto racing: CJM Racing, which had 12 top-10 finishes in the Nationwide Series last season, has suspended operations. Denny Hamlin and Scott Lagasse Jr. drove the No. 11 Toyota for CJM last season, combining for five top-five finishes.

Soccer: Todd Yeagley, the son of former Hoosiers men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley, was hired as Indiana's coach, replacing Mike Freitag. Yeagley, whose father won six national titles -- the last in 2003 -- in 41 years with the Hoosiers, was an All-America and national player of the year at Indiana, where he played from 1991 to '94. Todd Yeagley, 37, was head coach at Wisconsin last year ... Federal court records show the driver in a Washington, D.C., car accident that seriously injured U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies had consumed alcohol. Davies broke several bones, including two in his right leg, and injured his bladder in the accident.

Track and field: Two U.S. women's relay teams from the 2000 Olympics lost a preliminary ruling in their fight to keep the Olympic medals stripped from them because of Marion Jones' doping offenses. The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a motion by the runners in the Americans' 400- and 1,600 relay teams anchored by Jones.

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