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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (March 12) – Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) added some more oomph to his trophy collection Friday as he clinched the second Audi FIS World Cup giant slalom title of his career with third in the season’s final event. The victory places Ligety in some pretty illustrious company as he joins Phil Mahre to become the only American men to earn two World Cup giant slalom titles.
“Having two globes is awesome,” Ligety said. “It’s cool to have those and to be the best in giant slalom over the last couple of years is nice.”
Ligety’s GS title is his second in three years, having won in 2008. Phil Mahre is the only other American man to win two, taking back-to-back titles in 1982 and ‘83. Bode Miller won the GS crown in 2004.
The GS was won by Carlo Janka of Switzerland, who locked the men’s overall World Cup title with the win, followed by Davide Simoncelli of Italy in second.
Ligety had a solid first run and, after falling slightly behind at the third interval, he picked up the pace in the second run to tie for third in the giant slalom race with Austrian Philipp Schoerghofer.
“It’s always better to tie someone than be one hundredth behind, so I was happy to be on the podium,” Ligety mused.
With a somewhat narrow 43 point lead on the giant slalom standings going into Friday’s race, Ligety said things fell into place on game day for him to beat his toughest challengers for th...
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