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Shiffrin gets career win 95 in first World Cup slalom after season-ending injury for rival Vlhova
Read full article: Shiffrin gets career win 95 in first World Cup slalom after season-ending injury for rival VlhovaMikaela Shiffrin has earned her record-extending career win 95 by triumphing in a womenโs World Cup slalom a day after the American ski starโs main rival sustained a season-ending injury.
Swiss skier Odermatt wins GS, sets World Cup points record
Read full article: Swiss skier Odermatt wins GS, sets World Cup points recordSwiss skier Marco Odermatt broke the 23-year-old menโs record for most World Cup points in a single season after dominating the giant slalom at the World Cup Finals.
Manuel Feller wins season-ending World Cup slalom race
Read full article: Manuel Feller wins season-ending World Cup slalom raceLENZERHEIDE โ Rising from sixth place after the first run in a World Cup slalom, Manuel Feller won the season-ending race on Sunday. First-run leader Marco Schwarz, who already took the season-long slalom title, lost speed in a difficult section of gates and dropped to sixth place. Alexis Pinturault placed third, 0.11 behind Feller, to end his season in style one day after winning a giant slalom to secure his first overall World Cup title. Pinturault was the first Frenchman to win the overall title for 24 years and an emotional weekend for the team saw Jean-Baptiste Grange race for the last time in the World Cup. The 36-year-old Grange retires with slalom gold medals from the 2011 and 2015 world championships.
The Latest: Schwarz wins combined for Austria's 3rd gold
Read full article: The Latest: Schwarz wins combined for Austria's 3rd goldAustria's Marco Schwarz competes in the slalom portion of the men's combined race, at the alpine ski World Championships, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. All rights reservedCORTINA D'AMPEZZO โ CORTINA D'The Latest from the skiing world championships (all times local):___3:50 p.m.Marco Schwarz won the menโs combined to give Austria its third gold medal at the skiing world championships. He was four-tenths off the lead in fifth after the super-G portion before posting the fastest time in the slalom leg. Brignone beat Elena Curtoni by 0.01 as Italy went 1-2 in the super-G portion with Shiffrin looming in third. Two-time combined world champion Wendy Holdener of Switzerland finished 0.97 behind.
Pinturault beats unheralded McGrath to win GS in Alta Badia
Read full article: Pinturault beats unheralded McGrath to win GS in Alta BadiaALTA BADIA โ Alexis Pinturault held off a challenge from unheralded Norwegian skier Atle Lie McGrath to win the classic menโs World Cup giant slalom on the Gran Risa course Sunday. He is the son of Felix McGrath, a World Cup skier for the US ski team in the 1980s and 90s. Pinturault gathered 15 of his 31 career World Cup wins in GS, but Sunday's result marked his first podium in the discipline this season. Among active skiers, only American Ted Ligety has more GS wins with 24. The men's World Cup remains in Italy for slaloms in Alta Badia on Monday and Madonna di Campiglio on Tuesday.