{"id":15012,"date":"2018-02-18T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/02\/18\/ted-ligety-ties-for-15th-in-giant-slalom-austrias-marcel-hirscher-wins-gold\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:08:49","slug":"ted-ligety-ties-for-15th-in-giant-slalom-austrias-marcel-hirscher-wins-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/ted-ligety-ties-for-15th-in-giant-slalom-austrias-marcel-hirscher-wins-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Ligety Ties For 15th In Giant Slalom, Austria's Marcel Hirscher Wins Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Ted Ligety finished 15th in the men’s giant slalom on Sunday. He told reporters this Olympics will likely be his last.<\/p>\n

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Ted Ligety<\/a>, one of America’s most decorated Alpine skiers, tied for 15th place in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics men’s giant slalom. The favored Marcel Hirscher<\/a> of Austria won gold, while Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway took silver and Alexis Pinturault of France took bronze.<\/p>\n

Ligety, a 33-year-old from Park City, Utah, won gold<\/a> in the 2014 Winter Olympics’s giant slalom, and gold in the super combined event in the 2006 games. The athlete skis with what The New York Times<\/em>has called a self-invented style,<\/a> positioning himself so low on each turn that he’s almost “sitting on the snow.” <\/p>\n

Among more than 100 competitors in the field, Ligety was older than all but three, according to The Washington Post.<\/a> He’s been ranked ranked eighth<\/a> in the world in giant slalom. <\/p>\n

“Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there, you know. It’s really rare \u2014 actually, oftentimes \u2014 when the favorites win,” Ligety told NPR in 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n

This year, the favored skier did win. Hirscher crossed the line at 1:08.27 in his first run, putting him in first place before the race’s second run. <\/p>\n