Hirscher Picks Up Second Victory The two-time defending World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher of Austria produced a superb second run to win a giant slalom Saturday in Val d'Isère, France. The Americans Ted Ligety and Bode Miller did not finish their first runs. Ligety took a gate too wide halfway down and went off the course. Miller tripped over his skis near the bottom. "Just a little bit bad luck on my part," said Ligety, who failed to qualify for the second run for the first time in nearly five years. It was Hirscher's second win of the season after his slalom victory at Levi, Finland, and fourth podium in five races. Ligety won the first two giant slaloms of the season but was undone by an uncharacteristic technical error. Hirscher was third after the first run, 0.41 of a second behind the Frenchman Alexis Pinturault but tamed the Stade Olympique de Bellevarde course to finish 0.76 of a second ahead of Thomas Fanara of France. Stefan Luitz of Germany was third, and Pinturault finished fourth. Ligety, 29, entered the race looking for his fifth straight World Cup win in giant slalom dating to last year. He won the last two giant slalom races last season and the opening two this time, at Soelden, Austria, and Beaver Creek, Colo. But Ligety missed a gate turning in from the left side, going down on his hip and out of a first run for the first time since February 2009 at Sestriere, Italy. "But I've had a bunch of races where second runs I went out," he said. You just have to fight. Ligety, a four-time defending World Cup giant slalom champion, does not count the Bellevarde among his favorite courses. "It's always super, super bumpy and miserable to ski, so I wasn't surprised by that at all," he said. It's not ideal. MORITZ Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein followed up three recent second-place finishes with her first victory of the World Cup season, winning the super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Weirather timed 1 minute 17.38 seconds in near-perfect conditions, having been runner-up twice last weekend and once in November. Kajsa Kling of Sweden finished second, 0.31 of a second behind. Anna Fenninger of Austria was third. The win was a perfect 57th birthday gift for Weirather's mother, the two-time Olympic and World Cup overall champion Hanni Wenzel. The defending champion, Lindsey Vonn, skipped the St. Moritz race weekend. Vonn has a lighter World Cup schedule to manage a knee injury before the Sochi Olympics. After a stellar 2013 season, the United States team is still seeking a podium finish after six speed races this season. Stacey Cook finished 16th, 1.74 seconds behind the leader, and Julia Mancuso was 20th. The prerace favorite, Lara Gut of Switzerland, was seventh, 1.12 back, and retained her lead in the overall and super-G standings. LONG DISTANCE WINS Maurice Manificat of France and Marit Bjoergen of Norway won distances races in the cross-country skiing World Cup in Davos, Switzerland. Manificat got his fourth career win and Bjoergen stood atop the podium for the 61st time. Manificat took the lead after halfway in the 30-kilometer freestyle event, and timed 1 hour 5 minutes 10.8 seconds to beat Chris Andre Jespersen of Norway by 3.3 seconds. Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway was third, 14.9 back, and retained his lead in the overall standings. Bjoergen, the women's overall leader, won the 15-kilometer freestyle race by 13 seconds over teammate Therese Johaug in 35 minutes, 34.4 seconds.