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A men's World Cup slalom race scheduled for the French resort of Val d'Isere on Sunday has been cancelled due to strong wind gusts.

Marcel Hirscher dominated yet again in the World Cup on Saturday, winning a giant slalom by a huge 1.18-second margin.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On Saturday's edition, we have ski halfpipe World Cup, luge World Cup from Calgary, men's giant slalom, men's skeleton and figure skating Grand Prix final in Vancouver.

Watch live action of the women's World Cup alpine event from St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Click on the video player above on Sunday at 4 a.m. ET to watch live action from the men's World Cup alpine event in Val d'Isere, France.

Stefan Luitz of Germany used a powerful finish to capture a World Cup giant slalom Sunday, ending Austrian standout Marcel Hirscher's five-race winning streak in the discipline.

Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States won her first World Cup super-G race on Sunday. Canada's Valerie Grenier was fifth for the best result of her career. She was .88 seconds back of Shiffrin and five one hundreths of a second out of a podium spot.

Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria won her second women's World Cup downhill in as many days Saturday.

Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria won the season-opening women's World Cup downhill Friday.

Watch Road to the Olympic Games, our weekly program spotlighting the best high-performance athletes from Canada and around the world. On this week's edition of the program, we have men's World Cup downhill skiing from Beaver Creek, Colo., and women's World Cup downhill in Lake Louise, Alta.