Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record career haul to 97 World Cup victories when the American skier won the last slalom of the season at the Alpine World Cup finals.
Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record career haul to 97 World Cup victories when the American skier won the last slalom of the season at the Alpine World Cup finals Saturday.
She won by 0.54 seconds over Mina Fuerst Holtmann of Norway, while Swenn Larsson dropped to third, 0.63 off the pace. Shiffrin, who was out of action for six weeks after injuring a knee in January, had already clinched her eighth slalom globe last weekend in Are, Sweden. She has said the slalom will be her last race of the season, skipping Sunday's giant slalom and next week's speed events."It's been a wild season, so I'm really happy to be here and see the final race of the season go well. I'm looking forward to the next season already," Shiffrin said.
The two-time Olympic champion sprained the MCL and tibiofibular ligament in her knee in a downhill crash Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in January, when she was still recovering from a bone bruise she had sustained at the start of the season.
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