Mikaela Shiffrin on cusp of overall World Cup title after rare downhill win
Mikaela Shiffrin increased her lead over Petra Vlhová in a close race for the overall title by winning the downhill on Wednesday at the World Cup finals.
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Mikaela Shiffrin increased her lead over Petra Vlhová in a close race for the overall title by winning the downhill on Wednesday at the World Cup finals.
Fresh from overtaking the absent Mikaela Shiffrin in the women's World Cup overall standings, Lara Gut-Behrami won a shortened downhill on Friday in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, to close in on the injured Sofia Goggia in the discipline standings.
SOLDEU, Andorra — Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami came from a long way behind to win a women's World Cup giant slalom by one-hundredth of a second Saturday and overtake the absent Mikaela Shiffrin on top of the overall standings.
Olympic champion Lara Gut-Behrami is halfway to Lindsey Vonn's Cortina record after claiming a World Cup super-G on Sunday for her sixth career victory on the Olympia delle Tofane course in Italy — which again was the site of multiple crashes.
Austrian skier Stephanie Venier held her nerve after Mikaela Shiffrin and a host of other skiers crashed to win a World Cup downhill Friday on the course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in two years.
KVITFJELL, Norway — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin finished tied for fifth in a World Cup downhill Saturday and had her quest for a record-tying 86th career victory extended by at least another day.
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin finished tied for fifth in a World Cup downhill Saturday and had her quest for a record-tying 86th career victory extended by at least another day.
Sophia Goggia wrapped up her fourth downhill Crystal Globe, while Kajsa Lie made Norwegian history on a frantic morning in Kvitfjell. Goggia finished second to Lie and that was enough to confirm her third title in a row, and fourth in five years, after another dominant downhill season that has brought five wins from eight events.
The women’s downhill at Crans Montana has been cancelled due to fog. On Saturday morning in Switzerland fog descended suddenly in the morning and the race was unable to get started due to safety concerns for the athletes.