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Alta Badia, Italy • Ted Ligety needs some training.

A lot of it.

And some snow would help, too.

Struggling with a broken wrist and without the training volume he normally relies on, the Olympic champion was beaten soundly by Austrian rival Marcel Hirscher again in an unusually bumpy World Cup giant slalom race Sunday.

Hirscher led after the opening run then extended his gap in the second leg to finish a whopping 1.45 seconds ahead of Ligety for his third consecutive victory in the technical events of GS and slalom. Thomas Fanara of France placed third, 1.48 back, for his third podium result on the Gran Risa course.

Ligety, who normally dominates the GS events and has won this race twice, attributed his recent struggles to a lack of training. That's partly due to the week he lost from his injury but mostly due to a lack of snow everywhere from Chile to Colorado to the Alps.

"I'm a guy that likes a lot of skiing. I like to take 10 runs a day and ski a bunch of days. Whereas some guys don't like that kind of volume," said the American, who has won only one race this season. "I get confidence out of skiing that kind of volume. Hopefully it snows somewhere or they can make snow somewhere and I get some training in."

With little snow cover — all of it artificial — and green grass lining both sides of the steep and twisty Gran Risa, the bumps played a much bigger role than usual.

"It was definitely one of the toughest races this season. It was like mogul skiing or motocross skiing," said Hirscher, the three-time defending overall champion from Austria. "But we're not searching for easy races. We're searching for challenges."

Vonn misses out on record win

American Lindsey Vonn's bid for a record-equaling 62nd World Cup win will have to wait a little while longer.

The four-time World Cup winner crashed out of Sunday's super-G race in Val D'isere, France, after entering a gate slightly too wide, as Elisabeth Goergl beat Olympic champion Anna Fenninger by .05 seconds to lead an Austrian 1-2.

Although Vonn did no damage to her troublesome right knee — after only starting to race again recently following two operations — she landed heavily on her right elbow.

"I was risking everything and attacking the course. That sometimes happens in super-G, you don't have any training runs and you have just one inspection," Vonn said. "I hit my elbow, somehow funny. I have some ice on it. It's just a little bit swollen but no big deal."