Two-time gold medalist Ted Ligety qualified for his fourth Olympic Alpine skiing team on Saturday.
Tommy Ford and Megan McJames, two more Olympic veterans, are also going to PyeongChang in the giant slalom.
They join Mikaela Shiffrin, who qualified in December, as the first four members of the Olympic team.
Ligety, 33, won surprise combined gold in 2006 and then the giant slalom in 2014. The five-time world champion has been set back by injuries since Sochi, last making a podium in December 2015.
Ligety is the top finisher on an underwhelming U.S. men’s Alpine team this season. He was fifth and seventh in a pair of December giant slaloms.
Ligety straddled a gate in the second run of Saturday’s giant slalom in Switzerland after placing eighth in the first run.
The Olympic giant slalom favorites are led by longtime Ligety rival Marcel Hirscher of Austria.
Hirscher, a six-time World Cup overall champion eyeing his first Olympic gold, has won the last three World Cup GS season titles.
The other GS medal favorites include Frenchman Alexis Pinturault and Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen.
Ford, 28, made his second Olympic team thanks to a 10th-place finish in a giant slalom earlier this season. Ford was 26th in the 2010 Olympic GS.
McJames, 30, made her third Olympic team because she’s the only U.S. woman other than Shiffrin to finish in the top 30 of a giant slalom this season.
McJames was 30th and 32nd in the last two Olympic giant slaloms.
More than a dozen more Alpine skiers, including Lindsey Vonn, are expected to join the Olympic team in the next two weeks.
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