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KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) Marcel Hirscher retained his World Cup giant slalom title with a race to spare.
The Austrian won Saturday's next-to-last race to build an insurmountable 111-point lead in the discipline standings. The last GS is at the World Cup finals in two weeks.
It's the third GS globe for Hirscher, who won last year and also in 2012.
The Austrian held on to his first-run lead to finish 0.53 seconds ahead of Alexis Pinturault of France, who had won the past four giant slaloms. Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway was 1.59 back in third.
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Hirscher also extended his lead in the overall standings past 300 points, leaving him with only a mathematical chance of missing out on his fifth straight overall title.
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