Shiffrin takes record 47th World Cup slalom victory‘GEEKING OUT’: Shiffrin couldn’t believe it when the race was moved to a long, steep piste usually reserved for men’s races, saying it was a privilege to race thereReuters, SCHLADMING, AustriaMikaela Shiffrin on Tuesday won the last FIS Alpine Ski World Cup women’s slalom before the Beijing Olympics to take her 47th victory in the discipline and smash a record the US skier had shared with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. The US’ Mikaela Shiffrin competes in the FIS Ski World Cup women’s slalom in Schladming, Austria, on Tuesday. It’s like it didn’t happen.”The American now has 73 World Cup wins in total, 13 short of Stenmark’s all-time record. Vlhova, last to go, saw her 0.42 second advantage melt away as she finished 0.15 behind the American overall World Cup leader. The next women’s World Cup races are a downhill and Super-G in Zauchensee, Austria, at the weekend.

Source: Taipei Times January 12, 2022 21:58 UTC