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Ted Ligety: Winning giant slalom gold 'a really big relief'
No U.S. men’s skier had ever won an Olympic gold medal in the giant slalom, yet that was exactly what Ted Ligety was expected to accomplish on Wednesday in Sochi.
Watch the video: 'Ted Shred' owns giant slalom
Ligety, 29, delivered one of the best performances of his career on his first run and rode that to U.S. Olympic history by winning the gold medal, also becoming the first U.S. alpine skier to win two gold medals in his career. A two-time world champion and four-time World Cup champion in the giant slalom, Ligety was considered the favorite and fulfilled that lofty expectation.
“It was definitely worth the wait,’’ Ligety told Matt Lauer on TODAY Thursday. “It was pretty nerve-wracking, though, especially (because) my first two events here didn’t go all that great. I was hoping to try to medal in those as well. The giant slalom I always knew was my bread and butter, so to get that one is a really, reall
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IT’S A JULY MORNING in Park City, Utah, and U.S. Ski Team star Ted Ligety, six of his teammates, and I are locked in an intense game of basketball. From the first inbound, Ligety, who is five foot eleven and 185 pounds of power, drives hard, tosses elbows, and blows through picks. Then—”Ahhhh!”—he comes down hard on his ankle, turning it over. It starts to swell, and Ligety limps around with clenched teeth, but after ten minutes he shakes off the pain. He has to: the Winter Games in Sochi are only seven months away, and Ligety is expected to contend for numerous medals. There’s a lot of training to do.
Today it’s a brutal circuit of squats, leg presses, hamstring curls, and various balancing exercises. He attacks it ferociously—his ankle growing larger—and demands that everybody else follow suit. “Come on, Adam!” he yells at coach Adam Cole, a childhood friend. “Do that exercise one leg at a time!”
When we finish the circuit, C
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
US ski grupp line up – the alpine men
Posted onJanuary 31, 2014byskibums
This past week the US Ski grupp announced their Olympic alpine roster. For the women there will be Julia Mancuso, Mikaela Shiffrin, Stacey Cook, Julia Ford, Megan McJames, Laurenne Ross, Leeanne Smith, Resi Stiegler, and Jacqueline Reiss. Lindsey Vonn will … Continue reading →
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Ski report for the weekend of January 31st, 2014
Posted onJanuary 31, 2014byskibums
What a great weekend it was for skiing! Trying to get to the ski area Saturday morning was an adventure in itself. Even with my all-wheel drive inom was skidding off the road even when inom was barely moving. Consequently, … Continue reading →
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US Ski Team profiles – the alpine ladies
Posted onJanuary 24, 2014byskibums
With Lindsey out of the ru