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Mad cow fears Government is expected to announce the results of tests after pork labelled beef free were found to contain beef
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| Jan.30 |
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Rahlves won super giant Daron Rahlves unexpectedly got gold medal in the men's super giant slalom at the World Championship
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| Feb.6 |
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Dorfmeister win downhill Austrian swept the podium in the women's downhilll of the World Championship
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| Feb.7 |
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Trinkl beats Maier in downhill Trinkl won the bronze medal at the 1998 Olympics
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| Feb.8 |
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Von Gruenigen wins giant slalom M. von Gruenigen of Switzerland gets 2nd giant slalom gold medal at the world championships
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| Feb.22 |
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Violence at Vienna Ball Protesters against centre-right government hurled stones and paint bombs
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| Mar.10 |
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Maier ties World Cup record Hermann Maier won men's giant slalom tying I. Stenmark's season record of 13 World Cup wins
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| May.13 |
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Coulthard capture Grand Prix Coulthard took advantage of a near tangle between Schumacher and Montoya
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| May.18 |
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Court bans Haider's defamation Former leader of the Freedom Party has been banned from defamatory comments about leader of Jewish community
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| Jul.1 |
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Clashes at EU economic summit| Hundreds of anti-globalisation protesters tried to break through walls of police | |
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| Sep.6 |
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Heater caused ski train disaster| Faulty electric heater caused fire that killed 155 people on November 2000 | |
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| Oct.2 |
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9 players refuse to travel to Israel| Players refusing to go to the European Group 7 match because of safety concerns | | |
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| Oct.4 |
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FIFA calls off Israel-Austria match FIFA is citing security concerns following crash of a Russian chartered airliner
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| Nov.14 |
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Turkey, Austria 5-0 Turkey qualified for its first World Cup finals in a half a century
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| Dec.13 |
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Anthrax found in American embassy| A miniscule amount of the deadly spores have been discovered in a diplomatic mail pouch | |
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| Dec.28 |
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Greber gets first World Cup victory Christian Greber led an Austrian 1-2-3 sweep in the first of back-to-back downhill races
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| Dec.29 |
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Strobl leads another Austrian sweep| Fritz Strobl leading 3 teammates in a 1-2-3-4 finish in downhill | | |
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