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Vonn and Cuche top the prize money list In terms of prize money, it was the ladies that outshone the men again this, as last, season. Lindsey Vonn not only collected a record number of globes and wins this season, she also pocketed almost half a million Swiss francs. Second ranked Maria Riesch also earned more than 350'000 Swiss francs in prize money alone. On the men's side, Didier Cuche leads the list ahead of the overall World Cup winner Carlo Janka. Cuche, the downhill title winner and five-time World Cup race winner this season netted 334 850 francs, nearly twice as much as last year. Carlo Janka, who won the overall title and six individual races, increased his earnings to 305 673 francs, six times his last year's figures. Audi FIS Ski World Cup Prize Money, Season 2009/2010 (in Swiss francs/Euros) Ladies 1. Lindsey Vonn (USA) 492'450/€382'300 2. Maria Riesch (GER) 356'200/237'466. 3. Kathrin Zettel (AUT) 272'200/181'466. 4. Anja Paerson (SWE) 194'650/129'766. 5. Sandrine Aubert (FRA) 149'000/99'666. 6. Marlies Schild (AUT) 146'750/97'833. 7. Tina Maze (SLO) 146'000/97'333. 8. Kathrin Hoelzl (GER) 121'075/80'716. 9. Tanja Poutiainen (FIN) 110'000/73'333. 10. Fabienne Suter (SUI) 91'875/59'719. Men 1. Didier Cuche (SUI) CHF 334'850/€223'233 2. Carlo Janka (SUI) 305'673/203'783. 3. Benjamin Raich (AUT) 206'775/137'850. 4. Ivica Kostelic (CRO) 184'375/122'916. 5. Reinfried Herbst (AUT) 175'325/116'883. 6. Marcel Hirscher (AUT) 172'600/115'066. 7. Julien Lizeroux (FRA) 155'562/103'708. 8. Aksel-Lund Svindal (NOR) 144'775/96'516. 9. Felix Neureuther (GER) 142'500/95'000. 10. Ted Ligety (USA) 136'150/90'766. Three FIS World Cup tours to conclude this week Another three FIS World Cup series will come to an end this week: the Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Sweden and the other two, the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup and the FIS Freestyle World Cup are both staging their Finals in Spain, in La Molina and Sierra Nevada, respectively. In Cross-Country, all the titles have already been decided before the four-part mini-Tour final series. On the ladies side Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland already confirmed her 2nd consecutive overall globe in Lahti while in the men's rankings Norwegian Petter Northug secured his first overall trophy during the Oslo weekend. He is the first Norwegian overall World Cup winner since 1999 when Bjoern Daehlie won the last of his six overall globes. Behind Northug, who will go into the four-day Final with a comfortable lead of 383 points (when there are only a maximum of 350 points left to win), Lukas Bauer (CZE), Markus Hellner (SWE) and Dario Cologna (SUI) will be fighting for the remaining two steps on the overall season podium. Northug also confirmed his victory in the distance World Cup by winning the 50km mass start race on Holmenkollen on Saturday. On the ladies' side, besides confirming the distance World Cup crystal globe in Lahti, Justyna Kowalczyk also secured her first sprint World Cup victory by finishing fourth in the Holmenkollen sprint. The men's sprint World Cup went to Emil Joensson from Sweden thanks to his seventh place in Oslo. The FIS Freestyle World Cup finals in Sierra Nevada (SPA) can look forward to decisions in the men's moguls and the ladies' ski cross and overall rankings. Dale Begg-Smith leads the men's mogul rankings but could still be beaten in the run for the title by Jesper Bjoernlund of Sweden or Guilbaut Colas of France. Canadian Jennifer Heil has already secured the ladies mogul title, her fifth which ties her with Donna Weinbrecht (USA) for the record number of titles in Freestyle, before the final mogul competition. In the ladies' ski cross, Ophelie David (FRA) is being challenged by Olympic champion Ashleigh McIvor for her 7th back-to-back World Cup title. The men's ski cross title has already been confirmed by Mike Schmid of Switzerland, the Vancouver Olympic champion in ski cross. The aerial titles for Anton Kushnir of Belarus and Nina Li of China were decided at the aerials finals in Mont-Gabriel (CAN) before the Vancouver Games. Kushnir also claimed the men's overall FIS Freestyle World Cup crystal globe whilst the ladies overall trophy remains a race between Nina Li, current leader, and Jennifer Heil, who could still steal the title by winning in Sierra Nevada which will be hosting its first mogul events on Thursday. La Molina is debuting as the host of the season finals for the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup. The finals, taking place from 18th-21st March in the three events of snowboard cross, half-pipe and parallel giant slalom, will also serve as a great test for the upcoming 2011 FIS Snowboard World Championships scheduled there in January 2011. The open decisions for the season titles include the ladies parallel World Cup where the ladies PGS Olympic champion Nicolien Sauerbreij (NED) leads by 490 points over Doris Günther (AUT) who already missed the title narrowly a year ago. The ladies overall title is contested by Sauerbreij, Günter and the snowboard cross Olympic champion Maelle Ricker (CAN), who has secured the win of the small event globe. The ladies' half-pipe globe is confirmed to go to Xuetong Cai of China, who is the second Chinese to win a FIS World Cup globe in Snowboarding after her teammate Zhifeng Sun wrote history last season. On the men's side, the half-pipe title is likely to be a fight among Justin Lamoureux (CAN) and the only 15-year-old Patrick Burgener (SUI). The titles have already been confirmed in the men's snowboard cross where the globe was won by Pierre Vaultier (FRA), big air which went for the third time in a row to Stefan Gimpl (AUT) by a decision in Stoneham at the end of January and the men's parallel and overall World Cups which were won by Benjamin Karl (AUT). The Catalan resort will not only witness exciting races for the titles but also the end of a career for several accomplished racers including Vancouver Olympic champion in PGS Jasey Jay Anderson (CAN), the same event bronze medalist Mathieu Bozzetto (FRA), as well as Christopher Klug (USA), Heinz Inniger (SUI) and Daniel Biveson (SWE), all of whom belong among the leading riders in Alpine Snowboarding in recent history. actu_2983_newsletterright.jpg -------- 2018 Applicant Cities submit Application Files to IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that all three cities applying to become candidates to host the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018 have submitted their responses to the IOC Candidature Acceptance Procedure questionnaire. Annecy (FRA), Munich (GER) and PyeongChang (KOR) all had until 15th March to submit their files to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne and met the deadline. The completed questionnaire provides the IOC with an overview of each Applicant City's project and is the key element in the first phase of the procedure leading to the election of the host city. The responses will now be studied by an IOC-appointed working group and a report made to the IOC Executive Board. The Board will meet in June in Lausanne to decide which cities will be accepted as Candidate Cities. The election of the 2018 host city will take place Games during the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, on 6th July 2011. actu_2985_newsletterright.jpg