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American skiing prima Mikaela Shiffrin has equaled Lindsey Vonn’s grounds of 82 World Cup wins with triumph successful the elephantine slalom astatine Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, connected Sunday.
The two-time Olympic golden medalist is present the associated grounds holder for the astir World Cup wins by a pistillate skier, and by an American.
After taking a 0.24-second pb successful the archetypal run, Shiffrin finished 0.20-second up of Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami, who finished 3rd overall, and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova successful her 2nd run. Italy’s Federica Brignone placed 2nd overall.
“I was truthful tense this run,” Shiffrin said aft the victory. “I don’t cognize wherefore possibly a small spot was due to the fact that of 82. I truly wanted to skis it good and I did, can’t judge it.”
Shiffrin is present 4 wins distant from tying the wide grounds for World Cup wins, presently held by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark (86).
Shiffrin had to hold for her record-tying triumph aft the erstwhile contention successful Zagreb was canceled connected Thursday owed to “high temperatures and wind,” contention organizers said successful a tweet.
Then connected Saturday, she finished associated sixth successful the elephantine slalom successful Kranjska Gora, down victor Valerie Grenier of Canada.
Shiffrin’s caller signifier – she won 5 consecutive races earlier that sixth spot – is simply a singular turnaround from the commencement of past twelvemonth erstwhile the three-time Olympic medalist failed to get connected the podium astatine the Beijing Games.
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