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10/24 05:33 CDT Shiffrin leads giant slalom after first run as ski racing
season starts in Austria
Shiffrin leads giant slalom after first run as ski racing season starts in
Austria
SOLDEN, Austria (AP) --- Mikaela Shiffrin led after the first run of the
women's giant slalom on Saturday as the Alpine ski racing season started in
Slden, Austria.
The American star was fastest down the course on the Rettenbach glacier with a
time of 1 minute, 7.27 seconds. Sweden's Sara Hector was next, followed by
Camille Rast of Switzerland.
The second run is later Saturday.
Shiffrin's sixth World Cup overall title last season equaled the women's record
set in the 1970s by Austrian great Annemarie Moser-Prll.
But the Olympic slalom champion has called this campaign an "exploration
season" in which she will reduce her slalom races and focus more on giant
slalom and super-G.
The 31-year-old hasn't won a giant slalom race in nearly three years, going
back to December 2023, while her last super-G victory was in 2022.
Shiffrin used to race and win in all disciplines, but she had reduced her
schedule in recent years after she endured terrifying crashes in a downhill in
Cortina in early 2024 and a GS in Killington 10 months later. Her 22 career
victories in giant slalom remain the women's record, as are her 73 wins in
slalom and 110 wins overall.
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