The Colorado skier has been imperial since the start of the World Cup season. Thursday, she has the opportunity to make a hat -trick in the event of a victory in the slalom of Semmering.
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Nothing stops Mikaela Shiffrin. The American skier won the giant slalom of Semmering on Wednesday, December 28, his second victory in two days in giant in the Austrian station. With this 79 e Victory in the World Cup, the fifth this winter and the third in a row after the super-G of Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) in mid-December, the American rushes at 27 years old Towards the records of his compatriot Lindsey Vonn (82 success) and the Swedish Ingar Stenmark (86).
However, little at ease in the second round, the quadruple winner of the big crystal globe dominated Wednesday the Swiss world champion Lara Gut-Behrami by 10 hundredths of a second and the Italian specialist Marta Bassino of 47 hundredths.
Exceptional on the top of the course, Shiffrin made several errors which did not prevent her from winning again, illustration of the grip she has on the world circuit at the start of the season. In the general classification, it now has 305 points – more than three victories – ahead of the Italian Sofia Goggia, who has skipped the Austrian stage.
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“I tried to ski”
“When you run twice in a row on the same track and you succeed in the first race, it’s both easier for the second but also harder for me because I am more stressed. [… ] I tried to quite ski well, what worked, “said Shiffrin after the race.
With five victories in eleven departures this winter, the Colorado skier, who had left empty -handed from the Beijing Olympic Games in February, already has as much success as all last season. With a slalom scheduled for Thursday, the American has the opportunity to succeed in the same hat-trick as in 2016 (two victories in giant, one in slalom) in the Basse-Austria station.
In third place of the day, Marta Bassino validated her sixth consecutive podium in giant, symbol of her good shape. Encouraging fourth Tuesday, the French Tessa Worley missed Wednesday with a disappointing 10 e place (at 1 sec 95.