KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Ted Ligety is still eager for more success despite owning three world championship gold medals.
The American is poised to win his fourth World Cup giant slalom title and finish a career-best third in the overall standings.
Ligety will win the GS crystal globe on Saturday if he finishes ahead of his sole rival, Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.
Ligety, who leads Hirscher by 105 points, says if he locks it up, it leaves him with “a little bit more room to have freedom at the finals. The goal is to stay in the top three for the overall title.”
The World Cup finals are next week in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
