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Combined event change focuses Ligety

Associated Press

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ted Ligety isn't preoccupied with defending his Olympic combined title in Vancouver in February. That's understandable, since the traditional combined event doesn't exist anymore, having been replaced with the super-combi. Instead of an event combining one downhill run with two slalom legs, the super-combi consists of one downhill or super-G run with just one trip down in slalom. Since the American is a slalom and GS specialist, the new format doesn't favor him as much. "I wouldn't say my ma ...

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