Ligety brings deliverance for U.S. Ski Team

By Chris Freud

BEAVER CREEK — Thank you, Ted.This was starting to get grim. The U.S. was running out of chances for gold. There was the men’s GS on Friday — good chance — but Marcel Hirscher is a major pain in the tush, and we say that in the most respectful way with regard to the Austrian overall champion.Yes, Mikaela Shiffrin has a real good chance of being golden in today’s women’s slalom. But did you want it all hanging on Shiffrin to win to keep the U.S.A. from being blanked in the gold-medal department for Worlds?Sure, anything could happen in men’s …

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