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21.03.2021 / 12:40

Shiffrin leads WCup giant slalom after Gut-Behrami exits

LENZERHEIDE – Mikaela Shiffrin led a World Cup giant slalom that ends the women’s ski season Sunday, after world champion Lara Gut-Behrami made a curious exit.

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Shiffrin leads Vlhova after 1st run of World Cup GS

JASNA – Mikaela Shiffrin posted the fastest time in the opening run of a women’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday, a day after winning a slalom on the same hill.

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'Felt like flying': Liensberger topples Shiffrin

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'Katharina Liensberger held her right arm up in celebration before toppling over in the finish area and lying face down in the snow for a few moments.

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A 'huge resounding' success: Shiffrin medals in all 4 events

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'An ear-to-ear smile. No regrets. And another medal wrapped around her neck.

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Gut-Behrami wins again, edges Shiffrin in giant slalom

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'After going her entire career without a major championship title, Lara Gut-Behrami added a second gold medal to her burgeoning collection from this year's skiing world championships.

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Iranian skier makes appeal for women's rights in her country

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'Iranian skier Forough Abbasi accomplished one goal Thursday merely by completing her giant slalom run at the skiing world championships.

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The Latest: Shiffrin wins combined gold for 6th world title

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'The Latest from the skiing world championships (all times local):

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The Latest: Suter wins downhill for 2nd Swiss gold at worlds

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'The Latest from the skiing world championships (all times local):

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Gut-Behrami wins elusive gold in worlds opener, Shiffrin 3rd

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO – CORTINA D'Lara Gut-Behrami dashed to gold in the women’s super-G at the skiing world championships Thursday, and Mikaela Shiffrin took bronze in her first speed race in more than a year.

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Italian skier Bassino gets 2nd straight GS win, Shiffrin 6th

KRANJSKA GORA – Marta Bassino won her second World Cup giant slalom in two days Sunday after first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin dropped to sixth.Bassino trailed Shiffrin by three-tenths of a second after the American's near-perfect opening run, but the Italian posted the fastest time in the final.The last racer on course, Shiffrin was still in the lead at the first split time.

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Shiffrin takes clear lead in GS after 1st run, Bassino 2nd

KRANJSKA GORA – Mikaela Shiffrin had a near-perfect run in the opening leg to take a clear lead in a women’s World Cup giant slalom Sunday.The first racer on course, the American’s turns were clean all the way down the Podkoren hill as she built a lead of three-tenths of a second over Marta Bassino.Shiffrin placed sixth in a GS on the same course Saturday, which Bassino won.“Yesterday was a big learning experience. I did a lot of analysis,” Shiffrin said.“I changed a bit my focus, what I'm thinking in the course while I'm skiing.

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Vlhova leads slalom in Croatia after 1st run; Shiffrin 4th

ZAGREB – Petra Vlhova posted the fastest time in the opening run of a women’s World Cup slalom on Sunday, five days after her four-year-long joint winning streak with Mikaela Shiffrin ended.In tough conditions due to fog and rain, the overall leader from Slovakia finished her run 0.32 seconds ahead of Katharina Liensberger of Austria.Shiffrin was 0.42 behind in fourth. The American three-time overall champion could earn the 100th podium result of her World Cup career, which started in 2011.

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Shiffrin leads Gisin in slalom after 1st run, Vlhova in 6th

SEMMERING – Mikaela Shiffrin held a slim lead after the opening run of women’s World Cup slalom Tuesday, putting Petra Vlhova’s five-race winning streak in danger.Shiffrin edged Michelle Gisin by two-hundredths of a second as the American three-time overall World Cup champion positioned herself for a first win in her strongest discipline in 12 months.Katharina Liensberger was 0.32 behind in third, while the rest of the field, led by Liensberger's Austrian teammate Katharina Truppe, had more than half a second to make up on Shiffrin in the second run.Vlhova, who won all five slaloms since Shiffrin last triumphed in Lienz a year ago, lost time at each split and the overall World Cup leader from Slovakia finished 0.89 behind in sixth.All 28

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Vlhova leads Bassino in GS after 1st run, Shiffrin in 4th

SEMMERING – Petra Vlhova posted the fastest time in the opening run of a women’s World Cup giant slalom on the Zauberberg course Monday, two years after she won her first race in the discipline on the same hill.The GS world champion from Slovakia finished her clean run in 1 minute, 2.15 seconds to lead Marta Bassino by 0.22.The Italian won the first two giant slaloms of the season, but both she and Vlhova failed to finish the previous race in France two weeks ago.Switzerland’s Michelle Gisin was 0.35 behind in third, followed by Mikaela Shiffrin, who had 0.59 to make up in the second leg.The American three-time overall champion triumphed in the previous GS for her first win since returning to the circuit from a 10-month break.Vlhova said

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Mikaela Shiffrin wins emotional World Cup giant slalom race

COURCHEVEL – An emotional Mikaela Shiffrin won her first World Cup ski race since the death of her father nearly a year ago.Shiffrin protected her first-run lead in Monday's giant slalom and finished 0.82 seconds ahead of Federica Brignone. Former world champion Tessa Worley was 1.09 behind in third place in the sun-splashed French Alps.It was Shiffrin's first victory since January — one week before the death of her father.Returning to Europe to compete this season, the American skier has spoken of her feelings of sadness and anger, and often searching for motivation.

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After long break, Shiffrin grateful just to be racing again

Set for a return to to ski racing after 300 days away, Mikaela Shiffrin is looking for the answer to a question she has been asking herself since March.How will feel to compete again?“Hopefully it is a positive experience. And I don’t mean, ‘hopefully I win,’ but hopefully it is a positive experience to be a ski racer, still, and hopefully that will be the driving force,” Shiffrin said Thursday, two days before the longest break in her decade-long World Cup career is expected to end at a slalom in Levi, Finland.“It didn’t really feel it was that long of a break," she said.

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