Just 60 seconds.”Mikaela Shiffrin won an unprecedented fourth consecutive world slalom title despite battling a chest cold Saturday at the alpine ski world championships in Are, Sweden. First it was Anna Swenn Larsson, who finished 0.58 seconds behind Shiffrin to take silver. The most vivid memory she had was from halfway down the course, when she felt she “ran out of oxygen.” In fact, despite everything, the second run was close to perfection. There was the relative disappointment of finishing third in the giant slalom — Shiffrin said it was an awesome result, even though she started out as favourite — and then this drama-filled day in the slalom. After accepting a cough sweet to soothe her throat, Shiffrin was asked what made the unprecedented win in the slalom so memorable.

Source: thestar February 17, 2019 02:15 UTC