Camille Rast ends Mikaela Shiffrin's World Cup slalom winning streak - ESPN

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — The duel between Mikaela Shiffrin and her Swiss rival Camille Rast is shaping up nicely with 45 days to go until the women's slalom race at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Rast ended Shiffrin's six-race winning streak in World Cup slaloms Sunday, beating the American star by 0.14 seconds after clocking the fastest time in both runs at an event in Slovenia.

Rast, who is the slalom world champion, also led Shiffrin last week in Austria after the first leg but the American made up more than half a second on a deteriorating course to narrowly take the win.

On Sunday, though, Rast held on to her first-run lead for her fourth career win, and third in slalom, before being hugged by Shiffrin in the finish area.

«Her skiing is so strong, and it's been building, building, building,» Shiffrin said about Rast. «The last races she had some mistakes that cost time. And today, how I saw her ski the first run, ah, I had to go 120% in order to have a shot. So, it was a big, big, amazing day for her.»

Shiffrin was still satisfied with her own skiing and celebrated by pumping her fist after finishing her final run, when Rast was yet to start.

«I had a really specific goal for my skiing for the second (run), a little bit technical thing, and I felt like I really accomplished that,» Shiffrin said.

«This was the hardest I could push. I pushed so hard, it was like a small mistake here and a small mistake there and I don't think that cost time. That was just how hard I was trying. I could feel these turns that I wanted to feel.»

Sunday's victory came one day after Rast earned her maiden giant slalom win on the same hill and dedicated that victory to the victims of the fire at a bar in Crans-Montana near her hometown