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No fourth medal for Bode Miller as he skids out of giant slalom

By Chris Dufresne
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Bode Miller will not win his fourth medal of the Vancouver Games as he failed Tuesday to finish his first run of the men’s giant slalom at Whistler Creekside.

It wasn’t really a surprise, as Miller entered the race with no ranking in GS. Miller had earned medals in each of the first three alpine races. He took bronze in the downhill, silver in super G and gold in the super combined.

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American Ted Ligety, the No.1-ranked GS skier on the World Cup circuit, will get a second run but he has some work to do. Ligety stands in eighth place, 0.60 behind leader Carlo Janka of Switzerland.

-- Chris Dufresne, reporting from Whistler, Canada

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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