KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Ted Ligety of the United States won the season’s penultimate World Cup giant slalom Saturday.
The GS champion in 2008, ’10 and ’11, Ligety trails leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who finished third, by 92 points with one race remaining — in Schladming, Austria next week.
Ligety built on his commanding first-run lead to finish in an aggregate time of 2 minutes, 22.47 seconds to beat second-place Alexis Pinturault of France by 1.61. Hirscher was 2.03 behind.
Beat Feuz of Switzerland, who failed to qualify for the second run, remains in the overall lead with 1,250 points, 55 ahead of Hirscher.
