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12/16 16:05 CST Mikaela Shiffrin's slalom domination reaching new heights
during the Olympic season
Mikaela Shiffrin's slalom domination reaching new heights during the Olympic
season
COURCHEVEL, France (AP) --- Mikaela Shiffrin isn't just winning every slalom of
the Olympic season. She's winning them by an average of more than 1.5 seconds
--- an eternity in ski racing.
The American skiing standout claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory
after several of her top challengers went out during a night race Tuesday.
Shiffrin added to her first-run lead to finish 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss
skier Camille Rast and 1.71 ahead of German racer Emma Aicher.
Shiffrin has now won the opening four slaloms of the season --- and five
straight including the final race of last season.
All of her margins of victory this season have topped a full second --- and
three of them more than 1.5 seconds: 1.66 in Levi Finland; 1.23 in Gurgl,
Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her latest performance in
the French Alps.
Do the math and the average margin is 1.5025 seconds.
"I'm just pushing. I'm not asking questions. Sometimes you just got to take it
and roll with it," Shiffrin said. "Lock in this feeling."
Rivals ran into difficulty Lena Duerr, the German who stood third after the first run, went off course early in her second trip down. Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who races for Albania, straddled a gate toward the end of her opening run --- ending a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums. Wendy Holdener managed a seventh-place finish despite a mishap at the end of her first run. Holdener hit a hole in the finish area, got flipped up into the air and landed on her back. After grimacing in pain for a few moments, she got up and walked away. It wasn't immediately clear if she was injured but she competed in the second run. Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, went out midway down. It's the third straight slalom that Ljutic has failed to finish. Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the fastest second run. Shiffrin earned her 68th World Cup slalom win. She also won gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics --- then took gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. But Shiffrin didn't medal at the 2022 Beijing Games. Women's Alpine skiing at the Feb. 6-22 Olympics will be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy --- where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships and where Lindsey Vonn holds the record of 12 World Cup victories.
Lindsey Vonn races again soon Vonn, who won a downhill last week at age 41, no longer competes in slalom. Vonn will be back in action this weekend for a downhill and a super-G in nearby Val d'Isere.
Rast and Aicher move up Rast recovered from a mistake midway down her second run to earn the sixth podium of her career. Aicher, who also won a downhill last weekend, is one of the few skiers competing in all four events. Rast and Aicher moved up to third and fourth in the overall standings, respectively. Shiffrin leads the overall with 558 points, followed by Alice Robinson (394), Rast (343) and Aicher (319). ___ AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
Rivals ran into difficulty Lena Duerr, the German who stood third after the first run, went off course early in her second trip down. Lara Colturi, the Italian-born skier who races for Albania, straddled a gate toward the end of her opening run --- ending a streak of three consecutive slalom podiums. Wendy Holdener managed a seventh-place finish despite a mishap at the end of her first run. Holdener hit a hole in the finish area, got flipped up into the air and landed on her back. After grimacing in pain for a few moments, she got up and walked away. It wasn't immediately clear if she was injured but she competed in the second run. Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the next two starters, went out midway down. It's the third straight slalom that Ljutic has failed to finish. Katharina Truppe of Austria finished fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the fastest second run. Shiffrin earned her 68th World Cup slalom win. She also won gold in slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics --- then took gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. But Shiffrin didn't medal at the 2022 Beijing Games. Women's Alpine skiing at the Feb. 6-22 Olympics will be held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy --- where Shiffrin won four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships and where Lindsey Vonn holds the record of 12 World Cup victories.
Lindsey Vonn races again soon Vonn, who won a downhill last week at age 41, no longer competes in slalom. Vonn will be back in action this weekend for a downhill and a super-G in nearby Val d'Isere.
Rast and Aicher move up Rast recovered from a mistake midway down her second run to earn the sixth podium of her career. Aicher, who also won a downhill last weekend, is one of the few skiers competing in all four events. Rast and Aicher moved up to third and fourth in the overall standings, respectively. Shiffrin leads the overall with 558 points, followed by Alice Robinson (394), Rast (343) and Aicher (319). ___ AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
