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Anyone catch the combined downhill/slalom event yesterday? Major drama as Bode Miller was disqualified when his ski just barely missed one of the gates. He didn't realize it during the run, it was only caught on a replay. Just one of those things.
Meanwhile, American Ted Ligety was behind by over 3 seconds after the downhill run, but made up the difference and then some in his two slalom runs to take the gold by a convincing margin. The top slalom skier in the world missed a gate in his final run, which take a little bit away from the victory, but even before he missed that gate, he looked like he was going to loose the time to Ligety. It was a really excellent performance for him. So while a few American favorites have been faltering thus far, some longshots like Ligety and Cheek seem to be picking up the slack.
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