Marcel Hirscher won a record fifth straight World Cup this season but may remember the 2015-16 campaign for other reasons.
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The Austrian, who is the man to beat in World Cup skiing, clinched his fifth crown this week in St. Moritz.
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His success has warranted global attention, and he capped his 2014-15 World Cup globe with a colorful photo shoot for sponsor Red Bull in his native Austria.
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Hirscher also chases thrills off the slopes -- in his downtime the adrenalin junky takes on everything from tight-rope walking to dirt-bike racing.
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On the piste, he has been virtually unstoppable. In the 2014-15 season, Austria had double World Cup success as Anna Fenninger won the women's title.
In the 2015-16 campaign, Hirscher won twice at at the World Cup meeting in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and has six other regular-season victories.
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But the 27-year-old admits to occasionally struggling with motivation. A lack of Olympic gold (he won silver in Sochi in 2014) is one of his remaining motivations.
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One of the world's best technical skiers, Hirscher dominates in the slalom and giant slalom events.
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But he admits he struggles with the Austrian media's scrutiny of his private life.