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  • Meanwhile, American men are making like the Swiss and Austrians, too, with Ted Ligety in first place after his third consecutive giant-slalom win.

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  • Then a routine drug test detected minuscule traces of marijuana in the Canadian Ross Rebagliati, the giant-slalom gold medalist.

    Into Thick Air 2008

  • He has just one giant-slalom podium in his star-spangled career.

    USATODAY.com - Rahlves leaves Winter Games empty-handed 2006

  • "I just wanted to let the skis run [and] remain calm and on the edge," said Swede Anja Paerson of her winning giant-slalom performance.

    USATODAY.com - With assist, Paerson wins gold again; Mancuso third 2005

  • I am happy to carve gentle giant-slalom turns in groomed snow on intermediate trails.

    USATODAY.com - No. 10: Downhill skiing at 80-90 mph 2003

  • Olympic champion Carlo Janka of Switzerland won a men's World Cup giant-slalom race, 10 days after having surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Ligety won his third Cup giant-slalom championship in four years, surpassing the U.S. record of two set by Phil Mahre of Yakima.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The men's giant-slalom race was canceled because rain and warm weather left the course soft.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • With the runs broad and firm and fast under the fine grooming, we opened the throttle and smoked down them on our giant-slalom skis, grateful that everyone else had slept late and left the pistes open for us.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON 2012

  • Carlo Janka of Switzerland won a men's World Cup giant-slalom race in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, 10 days after having surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat.

    NYT > Home Page By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2011

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