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Mikaela Shiffrin takes giant slalom silver at worlds, .02 behind

Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami won the giant slalom at the world Alpine skiing championships, prevailing by two hundredths of a second over Mikaela Shiffrin.

Shiffrin, the first-run leader and last skier to go in the second run, swung from .08 up on Gut-Behrami to .14 behind to just missing a seventh career world title when she crossed the finish line in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Austrian Katharina Liensberger took the bronze in the GS, .09 behind Gut-Behrami.

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Gut-Behrami earned her third medal at these worlds, following a super-G gold and downhill bronze, to become the most decorated Swiss woman in world championships history.