Mikaela Shiffrin chasing after Vonn’s record as her win streak shut in Slovenia
Mikaela Shiffrin’s journey for Lindsey Vonn’s women’s Presence Cup wins record will occur in a general sense another day.
Shiffrin finished tied for sixth in a beast slalom on Saturday to end her series of overtakes the opposition in at five races.
Shiffrin remained at 81 work wins – one victory away from Vonn’s indication of 82 victories.
Valerie Grenier of Canada ended up as the victor in the race by a brilliant edge for her most enormous occupation win by posting the speediest times in the two runs. Marta Bassino finished second, 0.37 behind, and Petra Vlhova completed the stage, 0.40 behind.
Shiffrin, who finished 1.33 back, can regardless match Vonn in another beast slalom-made game arrangement for an essentially indistinguishable studio on Sunday.
“I wouldn’t pressure talking over it and I’m not exhausted on it,” Shiffrin said. “I’m truly similar to, ‘It is what it is.’ Everybody will say, ‘You get the astounding open door to lead the resistance in 82 races and congruity the record,’ every single race until I get it rolling – enduring I get it moving.
“So it kind of doesn’t make a difference. I need to go out and contribute some brave energy skiing constantly. In addition, today that was all that could be made due. Regardless, maybe I can make a few updates for some other time.”
Shiffrin stood fifth after the major spat any case had as of late the eighteenth speediest second run.
“What hangs out to me was just a single turn. I went extremely wide on this ensuing run, at this point I don’t feel that turn cost me so much,” Shiffrin said. “So I want to look at the last pitch and recognize how I may be solid areas for more. In any case, the essential concern is also to get some energy back.”
At present with seven wins this season, Shiffrin is other than quickly advancing toward Ingemar Stenmark’s general record – among individuals – of 86 victories.
Vonn surrendered quite a while ago when wounds completed her trip for Stenmark’s record.
Grenier’s best envelopes with her 89 past World Cup races were fourth in this race last year and fourth in a super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in 2019.
Grenier won three beautifications – a gold, a silver, and a bronze – at junior universes some spot in the degree of 2015 and 2016. In any case, she broke the tibia and fibula bones in her lower right leg in 2019.
“I had four breaks and it recently guessed that a truly wide undertaking ought to recover. So since the injury, I kind of focused more on beast slalom,” she said. “I feel like finally, everything is getting together and I’m finally skiing at my best.”
A Canadian woman hadn’t won a World Cup beast slalom since Kathy Kreiner in 1974, while Kreiner happened to other than win the event at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics.
Canadian extras mobbed Grenier in the peak area to celebrate.
While there were not precisely any, Canadian or American fans covering the Podkoren 3 course near the Italian line, there were a ton of eyewitnesses waving Slovenian and Slovakian standards.
The upper region was obscure during the principal run in any event quality improved for the resulting leg and snow conditions were awesome.
Nina O’Brien, another US racer, fell commonly down in the focal spat any case didn’t create an impression of being genuinely stung.