Italy wins giant slalom event

Victory eluded Mikaela Shiffrin once again in a World Cup giant slalom at Killington, Vt., edged into third place by an Italian 1-2 led by Marta Bassino.

Bassino sealed a first career World Cup win by retaining her first-run lead to beat Federica Brignone by 0.26 seconds. Shiffrin was a further 0.03 back in third for a fourth straight top-five finish in GS at the Vermont venue without taking the win. In other news:

• Germany’s Julia Taubitz held off Emily Sweeney of the United States for the win in a World Cup women’s luge race at Lake Placid, N.Y.

Taubitz finished her two runs in 1 minute, 27.484 seconds. Sweeney won the silver in 1:27.551, and Russia’s Viktoriia Demchenko was third in 1:27.706.

Sweeney set the track record in her second run, putting her into the lead with only Taubitz to race.

But Taubitz also topped the previous track mark, besting Sweeney by threehundredths of a second to deny what would have been her second career World Cup gold.