PhotoKILLINGTON, Vt. — With an unrelenting charge in the final 100 yards, Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany on Saturday won her second consecutive World Cup giant slalom of the season, surging past the American Mikaela Shiffrin by 67-hundredths of a second. Four weeks ago, Rebensburg, the 2010 Olympic champion in giant slalom, also won the World Cup season-opening race in Sölden, Austria. Rebensburg’s winning time after two runs was 1 minute 57.63 seconds. For Shiffrin, Saturday’s runner-up finish was a comeback performance after a disappointing fifth place in Sölden. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“This is a step in the right direction after Sölden,” said Shiffrin, last season’s winner of the women’s overall World Cup title.

Source: New York Times November 25, 2017 22:18 UTC