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Mikaela Shiffrin tempered her attack in the second run of Thursday’s giant slalom victory in Lienz, Austria. In Friday’s slalom, she let it rip. “Today I was really thinking ‘don’t hold back,'” the American superstar...
KILLINGTON, Vt. — Valerie Grenier of St. Isidore, Ont., raced to fifth on Saturday at the FIS Ski World Cup women’s giant slalom in Killington, Vt. Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami won with a total time of one minute 53.05 seconds.
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American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has won a women’s World Cup slalom after first-run leader Petra Vlhova looked set for a clear victory until straddling a gate and not finishing her final run. Vlhova extended her lead of 0.76 seconds over Shiffrin from the opening leg to more than a second when the Slovakian failed to clear a gate in the steep section midway down the Levi Black course. Shiffrin finished 0.18 ahead of Leona Popovic of Croatia and 0.30 ahead of third-placed Lena Duerr of Germany. Shiffrin says Vlhova “earned this victory today. Actually, that was really bad luck for he...
LEVI, Finland (AP) — Dealing with a bruised bone in her left knee after a training crash 11 days ago, Mikaela Shiffrin would have been happy with second place. But it turned out even better for the American. Petra Vlhova, who led Shiffrin by 0.76 seconds after the first run of a World Cup slalom […]