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By Mike Doyle, About.com Guide to Skiing

U.S. Ski Team - 2008, a Season to Remember and a Summer to Prepare

Sunday April 27, 2008
There's no doubt this past season was one for books for the U.S. Ski Team - including six victories by the disabled team. U.S. athletes scored 29 victories and stood on 92 podiums across all six ski sports. This is a good time of year to rest on some laurels, to look back at all the good times from the past season before the coming summer brings on the training for next year.

Overall, the most notable results include five alpine World Cup titles by three different Americans - Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller and Ted Ligety. We also saw the first women's cross country World Cup win by Kikkan Randall and the best American nordic combined ranking by Bill Demong who ranked third in the World Cup standings.

Here's a review of the highlights in each discipline.

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