Hirscher wins World Cup GS, Ligety finishes 10th (The Associated Press)

Overall champion Marcel Hirscher held on to his first-run lead to win the season-opening World Cup giant slalom by a huge margin on Sunday. The Austrian finished in an aggregate 2 minutes, 28.09 seconds to beat Fritz Dopfer of Germany by 1.58 seconds. Alexis Pinturault of France was already over two seconds behind in third. Ted Ligety, the Olympic and world champion in GS, was second after the opening leg but dropped to 10th , trailing Hirscher by 3.02 seconds, following a disappointing final run in which he lost a lot of speed in the finish section.