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Ligety, Hirscher face off with eye on ski worlds

On-fire American Ted Ligety comes head to head with Austria's reigning overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher when the European leg of the international ski season restarts this weekend.

On-fire American Ted Ligety (pictured on December 1) comes head to head with Austria's reigning overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher when the European leg of the international ski season restarts this weekend. Ligety has already won the opening two giant slaloms this season with a staggering average winning time of 2.25 seconds.

After a pre-season start in Soelden before sampling Finland's Levi, the circuit moved Stateside, with races in Lake Louise, Canada, and Beaver Creek, in the United States.

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