# @slcut2034 on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2018-02-23T20:59:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 (@slcut2034) — https://gondola.cc/slcut2034

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🇺🇸Here is the eleventh story on Utah Olympic athletes featuring ted_ligety an alpine skier from Park City. 📸: ericboltephoto .
Skiing always comes first for 2006 and 2014 Olympic gold medalist and five-time World Cup giant slalom champion Ted Ligety. Whether it's dropping cliffs, taking the snowmobiles into the Utah backcountry or laying down some of the most incredible angles in all of ski racing, "Shred" is constantly pushing and evolving the sport. Ligety was on skis at two and began racing at 11, working his way from the Park City Farm Team on up to the Park City Ski Team. Although he played other sports as he went into high school, he says, “Skiing really was my only passion.”
Ted Ligety is one of the best giant slalom racers in the history of skiing. At age 21, he shocked the world by becoming the youngest American male to win an Olympic Gold Medal in Alpine Skiing. He continues to dominate the men’s alpine circuit. In 2013, Ted became the first man in 45 years to win three events at the World Championships, and in 2014 he won the first-ever Olympic Gold Medal for the U.S.A. in giant slalom. He secured his place in ski racing history in 2015, becoming the first skier to win three consecutive World Championship titles in giant slalom.
The 2016 season started off with a bang for Ligety, but as he struggled to find his groove a mid-season crash during training at Oberjoch, Germany resulted in a career first season-ending knee injury. In 2017, the struggles continued with a nagging back pain, and Ligety found himself getting surgery and sitting on the sidelines.
He looked to come back stronger than ever for the 2018 season as he had set his sights on the giant slalom title and gold in PyeonChang. Yet, as he bowed out of the Olympics this year to focus on the rest of the World Cup season, Ligety said another Olympics in four years, when he will be 37, was not “out of the realm of possibilities.” However he said “When you have a family it kind of changes your perspective. We’ll see how it goes there; there are other priorities in life now besides ski racing.”
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winterolympics, slc2030, slc, wintergames, olympics, utahisrad, wintersports, slc2026

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