American ski star Mikaela Shiffrin won’t race downhills in the upcoming World Cup season in which she aims for her 100th career win. Following the worst crash of her career in January, the two-time Olympic champion even considered not racing at all — but only briefly. CBC | Sports News
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Mikaela Shiffrin captures Crystal Globe with 60th slalom win, 97th World Cup victory
Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record career haul to 97 World Cup victories when the American won the last slalom of the season at the alpine World Cup finals in the Austrian resort of Saalbach on Saturday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Mikaela Shiffrin clinches 8th women’s slalom title in return from injury
Mikaela Shiffrin made a triumphant return to the alpine skiing World Cup after a six-week injury layoff Sunday, dominating the season’s penultimate slalom for career win 96 and locking up her record-matching eighth season title in the discipline. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Grenier part of 3-way tie for bronze as Shiffrin crashes at Cortina downhill
Austrian skier Stephanie Venier held her nerve after Mikaela Shiffrin and a host of other skiers crashed to win a World Cup downhill Friday on the course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympics in two years. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Shiffrin tops ski rival Vlhova, adding 2nd slalom win to recent success in Austria
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrated an emotional win in a women’s World Cup night race Tuesday, edging out Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova in another gripping duel of their ongoing slalom rivalry. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Shiffrin dominates World Cup slalom race in Austria for 93rd career win
Mikaela Shiffrin finished 2023 with an eye-catching performance even by her standards, winning a World Cup slalom race by a huge margin of 2.34 seconds on Friday for her 93rd career victory. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Brignone dominates to win World Cup super-G, cuts gap to Shiffrin after the American skies out
Federica Brignone dominated to win a World Cup super-G on Sunday and trim the gap in the overall standings to Mikaela Shiffrin, who skied out at Val d’Isere. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Italy’s Brignone wins World Cup giant slalom, Shiffrin finishes 3rd in Mont-Tremblant, Que.
Federica Brignone of Italy skied to gold in women’s giant slalom in front of a packed crowd at Mont-Tremblant, which is hosting its first World Cup alpine event since 1983. CBC | Sports News
Read More »U.S. star Mikaela Shiffrin wins 6th slalom on home snow at Killington, beating Petra Vlhova
Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States pleased the home crowd by posting the fastest time in both runs, finishing in 1:42.02 and beating her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova by 0.33 seconds in Sunday’s giant slalom World Cup in Killington, Vt. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Shiffrin takes slalom over Popovic for record 7th career victory in Levi, Finland
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday in Levi, Finland, after first-run leader Petra Vlhova looked set for a clear victory until straddling a gate and not finishing her final run. CBC | Sports News
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