Italy's Giorgio Rocca won the first men's slalom of the World Cup season after his main rivals failed to finish. Rocca, runner-up on Beaver Creek's Birds of Prey piste last year, was second after the first leg dominated by his Austrian rival.
World champion Benjamin Raich was fastest in the first leg but went out on the second.
Rocca won in a combined time of one minute 51.72 seconds, with France's Stephane Tissot second in 1:52.58.
Tissot had been a distant 19th after the first leg.
Ted Ligety handed the US team yet another podium after a weekend of dominance on home snow when he crossed the finish line in 1:52.60.
Overall World Cup champion Bode Miller, the local favourite who won Saturday's giant slalom, failed to qualify for the second leg.
Full results:
1 Giorgio Rocca (Italy) 1:51.72 seconds (54.97-56.75)
2 Stephane Tissot (France) 1:52.58 (57.05-55.53)
3 Ted Ligety (United States) 1:52.60 (56.50-56.10)
4= Kjetil Jansrud (Norway) 1:53.05 (56.64-56.41)
4= Akira Sasaki (Japan) 1:53.05 (56.21-56.84)
4= Mario Matt (Austria) 1:53.05 (55.13-57.92)
7 Ivica Kostelic (Croatia) 1:53.28 (56.16-57.12)
8 Lars Myhre (Norway) 1:53.31 (56.71-56.60)
9 Aksel Lund Svindal (Norway) 1:53.72 (56.46-57.26)
10 Silvan Zurbriggen (Switzerland) 1:53.74 (56.81-56.93)
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