Ted Ligety has almost certainly won the men’s Alpine skiing giant slalom today in Sochi, giving him the following Olympic bests and records:

 

• With his second Olympic gold medal, Ligety becomes only the 2^nd American with 2 Alpine skiing gold medals, and the first male, after Andi Mead-Lawrence, who won her 2 gold medals in slalom and giant slalom in 1952.
• He becomes the 5^th American male with 2 or more Alpine skiing medals – Bode Miller (6), Phil Mahre (2), Tommy Moe (2), Andrew Weibrecht (2). There are 8 American women with 2+ Alpine skiing medals, led by Julia Mancuso with 4, making Ligety the 13^th American to win 2 or more medals in Olympic Alpine skiing.
• Ligety becomes the 7^th American to win Alpine skiing medals at 2 or more Olympics. This list is led by Bode Miller and Julia Mancuso with 3, with Dianne Roffe, Picabo Street, Phil Mahre, and Andrew Weibrecht the 4 Americans to win Olympic Alpine medals at 2 Winter Olympics.

So how is the United States doing in Alpine skiing at Sochi? Not quite as badly as originally described a few days ago, now helped by medals in the men’s Super G and giant slalom. Here is how the US performance in 2014 ranks compared to our previous medal rankings in Olympic Alpine skiing.

 

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Year,NOC,RankUS,RankEU,G,S,B,TM

2010,United States,1,2,2,3,3,8

1984,United States,1,1,3,2,-,5

1964,United States,3,3,-,2,2,4

1994,United States,3,2,2,2,-,4

2014,United States,,,1,1,2,4

1960,United States,4,6,-,3,-,3

1948,United States,4,4,1,1,-,2

1952,United States,4,2,2,-,-,2

1972,United States,4,3,1,-,1,2

1992,United States,=5,=7,-,2,-,2

2002,United States,6,6,-,2,-,2

2006,United States,5,2,2,-,-,2

1976,United States,=7,=7,-,-,1,1

1980,United States,6,5,-,1,-,1

1998,United States,7,6,1,-,-,1

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After the men’s giant slalom, here is the 2014 Olympic Alpine skiing medal list (assuming no changes after top 30 starters):

 

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2014 – NOCs,G,S,B,TM

Austria,2,2,1,5

United States,1,1,2,4

Switzerland,2,0,1,3

Germany,1,1,1,3

Slovenia,2,0,0,2

Norway,1,0,1,2

France,0,1,1,2

Italy,0,1,1,2

Croatia,0,1,0,1

Canada,0,0,1,1

Totals,9,7,9,25

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