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(CNN)Alexis Pinturault pulled ahead of his legendary French compatriot Jean-Claude Killy for World Cup wins as he held off a charging Marcel Hirscher in Saturday's giant slalom at Adelboden.
It was the 19th podium-topping performance of Pinturault's career, but after holding a big advantage after the first leg on the Chuenisbargli piste, was relieved to close out his victory.
World Cup overall leader Hirscher was claiming his 100th podium, a mark only surpassed by the great Ingemar Stenmark (155) and was mighty close to adding another win.
But Pinturault held on by four-hundredths of a second to make his own piece of history.
Maze officially brought down the curtain on her 18-year career which has seen her win two Olympic golds and four world championship titles.
She stopped halfway down the first run to greet her partner and a former coach before taking off her skis to cross the line on foot to a rapturous reception from the home crowd.
It meant a DNF and not classified in the official results but it did not matter.
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