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Boston Globe
27-03-2025
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- 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.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Swiss ski ace Odermatt secures overall World Cup title
Marco Odermatt has finished second behind Swiss teammate Loic Meillard in a World Cup giant slalom in Norway to formally lock up his fourth straight overall and GS titles. The only remaining challenger for the overall title, Henrik Kristoffersen, needed to finish the race well ahead of Odermatt to keep his mathematical chance alive, but the Norwegian finished in 16th place on Saturday. Odermatt extended his lead to an insurmountable 635 points over Kristoffersen in the overall standings, with only five events remaining. Another one for the history books! 🔮Marco Odermatt claims his fourth consecutive Giant Slalom Crystal Globe! 🎿👑 Unstoppable since 2021, ruling the discipline with absolute a champion! 🚀🇨🇭#fisalpine #wintersport #marcoodermatt — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) March 15, 2025 Clinching the title was a formality since Kristoffersen doesn't compete in speed events, though the Norwegian would have the right to start in super-G and downhill at the World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Idaho, which begin next weekend. The result also seals Odermatt's giant slalom season's triumph, with runner-up Kristoffersen trailing by 106 points with only the season-ending race at the finals remaining. Odermatt started the season with two DNFs in giant slalom, leaving him on zero points after two races, but he won three times over the course of the season. Odermatt becomes the sixth skier in men's World Cup history with at least four overall titles, but only the second to win four in a row after Austrian great Marcel Hirscher won a record eight consecutive titles between 2012 and 19. It has become typical for Odermatt to lock up the overall title even before the season-ending races at the World Cup finals. His point-advantages in the final standings has only grown over the years, from leading runner-up Aleksander Aamodt Kilde by 467 and 702 points, respectively, in his first two years as overall champion, to beating Meillard by 874 points last season. Odermatt already secured the super-G championship last week and is favourite to add the downhill title as well. Winning four globes would mean a repeat of his 'grand slam' from last season. On Saturday, Meillard led a Swiss sweep of the podium, leading Odermatt by 0.14 seconds and third-place Thomas Tumler by 0.23. World champion Raphael Haaser had a nasty crash when the Austrian straddled a gate, went airborne and landed on his upper back. He was attended to by medics and got up with a bloodied face before sliding down to the finish area on one ski.
Boston Globe
09-03-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup podiums record with third place in slalom won by Katharina Truppe
🇦🇹Truppe earns maiden win as Shiffrin🇺🇸beats Stenmark's podiums record! What a race!⛷️ Watch the highlights here: — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) 'Katharina Day!' Shiffrin said in the finish area as she hugged the two racers who beat her. 'I actually feel pretty good about it,' Shiffrin said of her fifth slalom race in her comeback from a serious crash in November. 'I maybe wasn't always perfect but I was pushing really hard.' Shiffrin's 156th top-3 result in her World Cup career broke a tie with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin also took the all-time wins record from Stenmark and now has 100 to his 86. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Mikaela Shiffrin 🇺🇸 makes history today! 🏆 With her podium finish, she breaks Stenmark's record, becoming the athlete with the most World Cup podiums of all time! 🔥 — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) Advertisement Truppe now has one from her 181st World Cup start, though she has three championship medals including the team event gold at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. 'It's just: 'Wow.' I'm a little bit speechless,' said Truppe, who had been sixth-fastest in the morning run, trailing Shiffrin by 0.91. 'First victory, it's crazy. I will enjoy it and soak up all this emotion.' Both Truppe and Shiffrin are aged 29 and won slalom bronze medals at the junior world championships though their careers were on different trajectories. Shiffrin won her medal aged 15 in 2011 and already had two World Cup slalom titles and Olympic gold before Truppe got her junior worlds medal in 2015. Shiffrin needed to win Sunday to earn 100 race points and stay in contention — though only just – for a ninth career season-long slalom title. She missed four slalom races while recovering from her physical and psychological injuries. 'I'm still trying to get the repetition back. I just have to keep practicing it,' she said. With Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova skipping the entire season to recover from a knee injury, the door opened for a new World Cup title winner. The World Cup season-ending last slalom is at Sun Valley, Idaho, on March 27 with four skiers ahead of Shiffrin and within 100 points of the lead to lift the crystal globe trophy. Advertisement Title-chasing contenders Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the world championships gold medalist last month, both were below their best form Sunday and placed 10th and 11th, respectively. Ahead of going to the United States, the 21-year-old Ljutic leads Rast in the slalom standings by 41 points and will win the title with a top-three result. Liensberger, the 2021 champion, and Rast's Swiss teammate Wendy Holdener also could win. Shiffrin said she plans to train in Europe before the trip across seven time zones, to the Idaho resort that last staged World Cup races in 1977. 'There's certainly some travel challenges. It's a really long distance,' she said. 'I guess one more race this season for me but I'm looking forward to it.'
Boston Globe
23-02-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Mikaela Shiffrin gets historic 100th World Cup race win and ties record for most podiums
The 29-year-old Shiffrin also tied an all-time World Cup record for men and women, as her 155th career top-3 finish on the podium matched Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark. Related : Shiffrin crossed the finish line and took a long look toward the scoreboard showing her victory — which she later said she could not find. She then looked again over her left shoulder with an expression of amazement. Advertisement She lay down on the snow with her right hand to her helmet and was helped to her feet by Moltzan who hugged her. Shiffrin cried at first when asked in a post-race interview what it meant after all she had been through in the past few months. 'Everyone had been so nice and so supportive. I am so grateful, thank you,' she said, adding later it was 'just an amazing day in the middle of some really tough months. 'I have wondered in the last weeks so many times whether it is the right thing to come back,' said Shiffrin, who had been MIKAELA SHIFFRIN HITS 💯!!! 🏆🔥 History made as she claims her 100th career victory! Absolute legend. 👑⛷️ — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) Shiffrin's 99th win was earned exactly three months ago in a slalom at Gurgl, Austria. No. 100 had been within clear sight one week later when Shriffin crashed out of a giant slalom at Killington, Vermont, while racing fast as the first-run leader. The injuries she suffered in a tumbling fall — severe trauma to her oblique muscles and a deep puncture wound — sidelined her for several weeks and left 'PTSD-like' anxiety about racing giant slalom. In two giant slaloms at Sestriere, she placed 25th Friday and on Saturday finished outside the top-30 fastest racers in the first run for the first time since 2012. Advertisement Shiffrin showed no sign of nerves Sunday with an aggressive second run to victory, a full half-second faster than Ljutic who is a three-time winner this season in World Cup slaloms. 'A lot of things had to go right in my direction for this to happen. But I did something right, too,' a tearful Shiffrin said minutes after the race. Shiffrin and Stenmark are the two greatest record setters in the World Cup's 58-year history. 'She's much better than I was. You cannot compare,' His record of 86 World Cup wins was broken by Shiffrin in March 2023, almost 34 years after his last win. Stenmark's 86th win — a giant slalom at Aspen, Colorado in February 1989 — also was his 155th and last podium result. Shiffrin matched Stenmark's tally of top-3 results in six fewer starts. Sunday was her 278th World Cup race and Stenmark's last podium was in his 284th, according to the site. Shiffrin'a injury absence means she is unlikely to add to her eight career titles in the season-long World Cup slalom standings. Even with 100 race points Sunday, she is just sixth and trailing leader Ljutic by 163 with two races left: March 9 in Aare, Sweden, and the season-ending March 27 race in Sun Valley. 'I'm really happy that I got to be here today,' the 21-year Ljutic said of Shiffrin's century. 'She was fighting so hard.' The standings had been led by Camille Rast, the new world champion from Switzerland this month when Shiffrin was fifth. Rast crashed out Sunday in the first run, three gates from the finish when set for a fast time. Advertisement Moltzan's fifth career podium in the World Cup followed a worlds bronze medal in giant slalom during her career year at age 30. 'I just wanted to put everything on the line and see how it played out,' said Moltzan, who is rewarding herself with some vacation days in London.
Yahoo
23-02-2025
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- Yahoo
Mikaela Shiffrin earns historic 100th World Cup race win at slalom in Sestriere, Italy
Mikaela Shiffrin reached a historic milestone in Alpine skiing on Sunday, winning the 100th World Cup race of her career at the slalom event in Sestriere, Italy. Shiffrin, 29, is the first skier — male or female — to achieve triple-digit victories in World Cup races. She beat Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic by 0.61 seconds, while USA's Paula Moltzan finished third. Additionally, Shiffrin tied Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden for an all-time World Cup record with her 155th top-3 finish. She surpassed Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup race wins in March 2023. Earlier that year, Shiffrin overtook Lindsey Vonn's record 82 World Cup victories for a female skier. 100 counting!! 💯🥵 #MIK100 #stifelusskiteam @MikaelaShiffrin — U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) February 23, 2025 'Everybody's been so nice and so supportive," Shiffrin said after the race. "All of my teammates and competitors and coaches and the whole World Cup and I'm so grateful, thank you. And the fans, thank you so much." "I think it's pretty special to share it with Paula, my teammate," she added. "I could hear everybody cheering from the start when she went and I thought, 'OK, it's like a day of training, it's like we just keep pushing,' and she pushes and I push and I made it achievable." MIKAELA SHIFFRIN HITS 💯!!! 🏆🔥 History made as she claims her 100th career victory! Absolute legend. 👑⛷️#FISAlpine #Wintersport #WorldCupSestriere #MIK100 — FIS Alpine (@fisalpine) February 23, 2025 Shiffrin's historic win came nearly three months after suffering a puncture wound in her left oblique resulting from a crash during a giant slalom race Killington, Vermont. Two weeks ago, Shiffrin withdrew from the World Alpine Skiing Championships in Saalbach, Austria, citing post-traumatic stress disorder from her November crash. "Honestly, I really didn't anticipate experiencing so much of this kind of mental/PTSD struggle in GS from my injury in Killington. Like always, I tried diving into the challenge, hoping to get there by Worlds," she posted on Instagram. "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," she added. "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." Mikaela Shiffrin gives an update on her recovery from an injury she sustained at the Killington World Cup race. — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) December 15, 2024 She appeared to still be battling the effects of her crash when she finished 33rd in the giant slalom race in Sestriere and failed to qualify for the second run. It was the first time in more than 12 years that she didn't qualify for the second run in a giant slalom or slalom event. "I do not yet feel entirely myself… but I do feel enough of myself to be here," she posted on social media. "And for now, that is enough." Competing in Sestriere turned out to be more than enough two days later, achieving the history she was temporarily denied.
