Alpine skiing: Ligety outclasses opposition in Alta Badia ALTA BADIA, Italy (Reuters) - Ted Ligety outclassed his rivals again with a comfortable victory in the classic Italian giant slalom of Alta Badia on Sunday. The world champion won his third giant slalom of the season in a combined time of two minutes and 37.27 seconds, 2.04 ahead of closest rival, Austrian Marcel Hirscher. While the gap was not as emphatic as the 2.75-second margin of Ligety's victory in October's season opener in Soelden, it required a great second run by overall World Cup champion Hirscher to limit the damage. Third-placed Frenchman Thomas Fanara trailed Ligety by 3.27 while German Fritz Dopfer was fourth, 4.22 off the pace. Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal was a solid ninth, 4.86 behind Ligety, whom he leads by 106 points in the overall World Cup standings.