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Bode Miller, Ted Ligety go out early in Olympic men’s slalom

By Chris Dufresne
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Bode Miller’s Olympics are over -- and he won’t win a fourth medal. Miller missed a gate barely 10 seconds into his morning run of slalom and was disqualified. Miller, skiing No. 17 on a sloppy course, went out right after U.S. teammate Ted Ligety failed to finish his run.

Miller leaves the Olympics with an American record of three Alpine medals. He won the gold in supercombined, the silver in Super G and the bronze in downhill.

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-- Chris Dufresne in 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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