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Boston Globe
27-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Mikaela Shiffrin powers through tricky course to win the slalom at the World Cup finals
Mikaela Shiffrin 🇺🇸 bags win no. 101 🏆 in front of her crowd! — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) It was an injury-marred season for Shiffrin, who competed in only the slalom at finals. The 30-year-old Shiffrin has missed four slalom races this season and that's taken her out of retaining her title in the discipline. She still finished in fourth place in the slalom standings. Advertisement Croatian ski racer Zrinka Ljutic was 10th in Thursday's race and captured the season-long slalom title race over Katharina Liensberger of Austria. The 21-year-old Ljutic captured last season's 'rising star' award and is showing that talent ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Camille Rast of Switzerland slipped to third in the overall slalom standings. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up A dream come true for Zrinka Ljutic 🇭🇷 – the Slalom Crystal Globe is in your hands! Congrats Zrinka ❤️ 📸 Agence Zoom — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) U.S. skier Paula Moltzan had a fast second run Thursday — finishing sixth — two days after a crash in the giant slalom. She wore a bandage on her chin. American Paula Moltzan was happy with her effort in Thursday's slalom at the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup finals. Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty For Shiffrin, a painful season drew to a close. She's worked her way back from a serious giant slalom crash in Killington, Vermont, in late November, where she suffered a deep puncture wound that caused severe trauma to her oblique muscles. The crash led to emotional trauma, too, leaving her with post-traumatic stress disorder in the GS. This season has also included a memorable milestone for Shiffrin when she won her 100th World Cup race during a slalom in Italy on Feb. 23. On Thursday, Shiffrin picked up World Cup win No. 101. Fittingly, there were kids in the crowd dressed in puppy outfits — a nod to Disney's '101 Dalmatians.' When she takes the slalom course, any slalom course, Shiffrin's been tough to beat. She's won four of the six World Cup slalom races she's been in this season. Advertisement Over her career, Shiffrin has finished first, second or third in a World Cup slalom race in 89 of 118 starts, which is a 75.4 percent podium rate. She's won 64 times — a 54.2 percent victory rate.
New York Times
12-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Swiss sweep men's team combined at worlds as American duo just misses medal
Switzerland swept the podium Wednesday in the debut of the men's team combined event at the Alpine skiing world championships, knocking the American duo of Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Ben Ritchie out of medal position in a dramatic finish. Franjo Von Allmen and Loic Meillard won the event, which combines a downhill leg and a slalom leg, with a total time of 2:42.38, beating out Alexis Monney and Tanguy Nef by 0.27 seconds for gold. Stefan Rogentin and Marc Rochat took bronze, 0.43 off the pace. Advertisement Monney, the bronze medalist in the individual downhill earlier this week, and Von Allmen, the gold medalist in that race, finished 1-2 in the downhill run, with Von Allmen just 0.02 back, while Rogentin was 1.08 back in eighth place. Cochran-Siegle finished 12th in the downhill, 1.26 back. In the afternoon slalom, Ritchie posted the fifth-best run to move them into the top position with the 11 teams with better downhill times still to go. But of the next nine slalom skiers, three skied out — including French star Clement Noel, the 2022 Olympic slalom champion with 14 career World Cup wins — and five others struggled on a difficult, rainy day on the course. Only Rochat bested Ritchie's time in that group, moving him and Rogentin into first place with the top two Swiss teams left. It came down to Meillard and Nef. Meillard gave back more than six-tenths of a second but did enough with his slalom run to put him and Von Allmen into first and bump the Americans to third. Then came Nef, who was 0.29 slower than Meillard, moving him and Monney into silver and ousting the Americans from the stand. It was a strong result for Cochran-Siegle and Ritchie, who finished 0.69 off the lead and 0.26 away from a bronze. Cochran-Siegle is currently ninth in the World Cup downhill standings; Ritchie is 19th in the slalom ranks. The 32-year-old Cochran-Siegle was competing in his fifth world championships. He took silver in the super-G at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing but had never finished higher than 10th in any event at worlds before taking seventh in the super-G earlier this week. Ritchie, 24, is in his first world championships. His previous best showing was eighth in a World Cup slalom in January. Meillard, 28, eyeing his third Olympic trip, won his fourth world championship medal and first gold. The 23-year-old Von Allmen made it two golds at his debut world championships. He also won a World Cup super-G last month. The 25-year-old Monney, also in his first world championships, notched his first World Cup downhill win in December in Bormio, Italy — the 2026 Olympic venue for men's Alpine. Advertisement Americans Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson won the women's team combined on Tuesday. The event will make its Olympic debut for both men and women at the 2026 Games. (Top photo of Team Switzerland celebrating their podium sweep in Wednesday's team combined: Alain Grosclaude / Agence Zoom / Getty Images)
New York Times
10-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Mikaela Shiffrin, citing mental struggle, won't defend giant slalom title at worlds
Mikaela Shiffrin will not defend her title in the giant slalom at the alpine skiing world championships this week in the wake of her crash in late November, the American star announced Monday. Shiffrin — a three-time Olympic medalist, seven-time world championship medalist and the winningest World Cup alpine skier of all time — said she was dealing with 'mental obstacles' after the fall in a World Cup giant slalom race in Killington, Vt., that punctured her abdomen and kept her out of competition for two months. Advertisement 'The long-story-short is…I'm not there,' Shiffrin wrote Monday on Instagram. 'Right now, I feel quite far away. I'm currently working through some mental obstacles in order to return to the GS start with the intensity required for racing.' Shiffrin still plans to race the slalom on Saturday in Saalbach, Austria. The giant slalom is scheduled for Thursday, but Shiffrin said she's battling a 'PTSD struggle' and needs more time to return to the faster discipline. 'Coming to terms with how much fear I have doing an event that I loved so dearly only 2 months ago has been soul-crushing,' she wrote. Shiffrin also said she will pair with Breezy Johnson in the team combined event, which pairs downhill and slalom, on Tuesday. Johnson won gold in the downhill on Saturday. 'Breezy and I have been racing together since we were 11,' Shiffrin wrote. 'We've been roommates, competitors, friends. … it will be so so cool to bring this full circle.' Shiffrin, 29, has a record 99 World Cup race wins and was trying for a milestone 100th victory on Nov. 30 when she fell on the second giant slalom run in Killington. She tumbled to the snow, flipped and slid into the safety netting. She frequently shared videos of her recovery, including one displaying the wound to her midsection. She returned in late January for a slalom event in Courchevel, France, finishing 10th in her only tune-up race before the world championships. Shiffrin, a three-time Olympian, was off to a flying start to the season before the injury, winning each of the first two World Cup slalom events. Slalom has been her strongest discipline overall, accounting for 62 of her World Cup wins and four of her seven world championship titles. She won Olympic gold in slalom in 2014. She's had plenty of success in giant slalom too, with 22 World Cup wins, the 2023 world championship — the last edition of the biennial event — and Olympic gold in 2018. Advertisement 'I really didn't anticipate experiencing so much of this kind of mental/PTSD struggle,' Shiffrin wrote. 'Like always, I tried diving into the challenge, hoping to get there by Worlds. I figured my passion and longing to compete would outweigh the mental barriers. 'Maybe that will be the case over time, but I'm not there yet.' (Top photo of Mikaela Shiffrin at her return in Courchevel, France: Paul Brechu / Agence Zoom / Getty Images)
New York Times
06-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Lauren Macuga takes third, Lindsey Vonn DNFs in super-G at world championships
Austrian Stephanie Venier won the super-G on Thursday at the alpine skiing world championships, earning a gold medal on home soil, while 22-year-old American Lauren Macuga earned a podium spot, tying for third. Venier, 31, finished in 1:20.47 to edge Italian favorite Federica Brignone by 0.10 seconds in the biggest super-G event before the 2026 Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Macuga and Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie finished 0.24 seconds back to share bronze. Advertisement American star Lindsey Vonn, who returned to the sport this year at age 40 and was competing in her first world championships in six years, did not finish after colliding with a gate early in her run. Vonn, who was sick with flu-like symptoms, caught her arm on the seventh gate down the slope in Saalbach, Austria. The gate pulled her arm back awkwardly and dislodged from the snow, slowing Vonn to a stop and sending her out of the race, holding her arm. 'I just went a little bit too early into the turn, and I caught my shoulder, my arm on the gate,' Vonn told NBC Sports' Heather Cox after the race. 'I don't think I've ever done that in my career, so I was a little bit confused. I'm fine. My arm was numb when it happened, and I'm getting feeling back.' An 82-time winner on the World Cup circuit, Vonn has two top-six finishes on the tour this winter and was hoping to add world championship success to her comeback to the sport. She's also scheduled to compete in Saturday's downhill. 'I'll be fine for the downhill,' Vonn said. It's the first world title for Venier, who was born in nearby Innsbruck and is a three-time winner on the World Cup tour, two in downhill and one in super-G. She was the silver medalist in downhill at the 2017 world championships. Macuga has had a breakout year for the U.S. team, earning her first World Cup victory last month and now adding world championship hardware. She's the first American woman other than Vonn or Mikaela Shiffrin to win a world championship medal since 2013. (Top photo of Lauren Macuga celebrating her run in Thursday's super-G: Alain Grosclaude / Agence Zoom / Getty Images)
