BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — A remarkable final run slid Ted Ligety right into the record books.
The American stormed back from a first-run deficit Friday to become the only man to win three straight giant slalom titles at the world championships.
Behind Marcel Hirscher of Austria by 0.24 seconds after the morning run, Ligety found speed down the course where others couldn’t and finished in an unofficial time of 2 minutes, 34.16
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