Contrary to his talk, Hirscher looks for title No. 5

By Chris Freud

BEAVER CREEK — He does not talk like he’s the four-time defending World Cup champion.And winning a fifth overall title this year? The way he speaks, he probably shouldn’t even bother clicking into his skis this winter.“I am thinking about it,” Austrian Marcel Hirscher said after Day 1 of downhill training at Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek on Wednesday. “In statistics, I have no chance. No one has done it five times in a row. I have not good chances for this. Otherwise, many more people would have done that before.”Don’t buy it for a second. Hirscher is not …

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