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Slovenia — 82 fewer, 1 remaining.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s climb to all-time greatness reached the penultimate step on Sunday morning in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, as the American won her 82nd career World Cup race, Lindsay Vonn It was the highest number of women’s alpine skiers in history. The 27-year-old topped her Podkoren 3 run with a total of 1 minute and 52.53 seconds on her two runs, setting her fastest time on both runs and winning her eighth race of the season. Did. Federica Brignone (1:53.30) was her second and Laragut Behrami (1:53.50) was her third.
Shiffrin told FIS after FIS.
The Edwards skier has made 232 World Cup appearances, matching Vonn’s mark and winning 51 slaloms. Vonn, who retired on February 10, 2019 at the age of 34, has been on a roll since winning the bronze medal at the World Championships. Downhill he has 43, Super G he has 28, Giant he has slalom he has 4, slalom he has 2 and alpine he has 5 total. Starts with 395. Ingemar Stenmark holds the record for 86 Alpine victories.
For Brignone, it was the 50th podium of her career, an achievement in itself. Given her Italian heritage, the fact that Shiffrin racked up her 82 wins seems all the more surprising.
“This was my first goal of the season,” Brignone said of the half-century milestone.
“I’m very happy right now and it’s a different number compared to Mikaela, but for me it’s great. When I started my career, I never thought I’d be on the podium 50 times.”
After building a lead on the first run, Shiffrin said, “I was really nervous on the second run.”
“I don’t know exactly why, because even though I said I didn’t care about the numbers and just focused on skiing, I was more nervous than ever,” she admitted.
“Maybe it was a little bit because of the 82. I just wanted to ski really well.”
Despite being conceded, Shiffrin’s skiing on the 40-gate, 320-meter hill seemed undaunted on both runs. finished 1st, 2nd, 1st and 5th respectively, leading Brignone, who finished 4th yesterday, by 0.24 seconds. Yesterday’s champion, Canadian Valerie Grenier, was 0.39 seconds behind her in third place.
Speaking to the Associated Press after his first run, Shiffrin said: “I felt much better on this first run than yesterday. I had to try to change my mind since yesterday.
In the second run, Shiffrin screwed up even though it was nerve-wracking.
“Every time I get nervous like skiing hard, I lose feeling in my feet, and every time I feel it, I try to be more powerful, like somehow pushing harder instead of being too gentle on the trail. “I felt really smooth and really powerful,” she said.
The 27-year-old extended her lead in the first sector before rocketing to the fastest second and third sector marks, trailing the latter alone by 0.23 seconds, to a monumental and dominant (she won by 0.77 seconds) won.
“It was a fight,” Shifrin continued. “But it was in very good conditions. I got the report from the coaches. They said, ‘It’s really easy to attack. Good luck.'” I let go, but I wanted to fight for it today. ”
Gut-Behrami said when asked how he felt about sharing the podium with Mikaela and what he thought of seeing Edwards skiers get so emotional about numbers, especially numbers don’t matter. After telling herself no, she said: It’s great. It’s a sport… I guess that’s what happens. It’s good to have these athletes who make history. Without it, without emotion, we would not have been into sports. ”
Shiffrin is also close to another record, albeit less important than the all-time mark. Placed 2nd on the Women’s Careers list.
The Women’s World Cup continues with slalom in Flachau on Tuesday. A leader in the slalom field, Shiffrin has won her last two slaloms contested. She took her eighth win of the year, beating Petravlova by her 419 points and extending a huge lead in the overall standings.
This article is from VailDaily.com.