Czech ski jumper Jan Mazoch was fighting for his life yesterday after crashing at a World Cup event in Zakopane, Poland, in difficult wind.

The 22-year-old jumper appeared to bounce off the hill during his second jump. He was taken to a hospital unconscious.

"The injuries he sustained are very dangerous and threaten his life," Sylwester Kosinski, deputy head of the city hospital in Zakopane, told a TV station. Later, doctors decided to transport Mazoch more than 60 miles to a special hospital in Krakow, a hospital statement said.

Mazoch was 15th after his first jump. Rok Urbans of Slovenia won off the large hill, with second jumps canceled after Mazoch's accident because of the wind. Urbans had a first jump of 136 meters, winning with 143.3 points.

Women's skiing

Julia Mancuso's two-race winning streak is over. Her run of top-three finishes is still alive, though, and so is her quest to become the first American woman to win the World Cup overall title in 24 years. Mancuso placed second behind Renate Goetschl in a downhill for her fourth consecutive finish among the top three. World Cup overall leader Marlies Schild has 881 points, fellow Austrian Nicole Hosp is second with 828 and Mancuso now has 714. No American woman has won the overall title since Tamara McKinney in 1983.

Men's skiing

Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin ended a 12-year winless streak for French skiers in their nation's most famous downhill at Val D'isere, while Bode Miller misjudged a turn and fell in the World Cup race. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway leads the World Cup overall standings with 725 points with Miller third with 640.