Mikaela Shiffrin wins 4th straight slalom of Olympic season as rivals falter in night race

Mikaela Shiffrin isn't just winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She's dominating each race and winning by large margins.

The American skiing standout claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory after several of her top challengers went out during the opening run of a night race Tuesday in Courcheval, France.

Shiffrin added to her first-run lead and finished in one minute 42.50 seconds, 1.55 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 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.

Laurence St-Germain of St.-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., moved up a spot in the second run, placing 13th, 3.97 seconds behind Shiffrin. Amelia Smart of Invermere, B.C. was 23rd of 24 finishers.

Rivals scrambling to catch Shiffrin 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.

American Mikaela Shiffrin wins a 4th-straight slalom race in Courchevel

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