VIENNA (AP) — Switzerland 11, Austria 0. The contrast between the two rival powerhouses of ski racing could hardly be bigger ...

Best-known races: Adelboden in Switzerland and Alta Badia in Italy. The Super-G is one of the newer World Cup disciplines straddles the gap between downhill and giant slalom. The first World Cup ...

Historical spa towns in the Alps that were popular in the 19 th and early 20th centuries as places to recover from illness are seeing renewed interest. Bad Gastein in Austria has seen a hotel boom, ...