With her chief rival, Petra Vlhova, out for the year after suffering a knee injury on her home snow in Saturday‘s giant slalom, Mikaela Shiffrin’s path to World Cup win no. 95 seemed already set.
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On a day dampened by hometown hero Petra Vlhova’s season-ending injury, Mikaela Shiffrin placed second to Sara Hector in the World Cup giant slalom in Janska, Slovakia. “I felt I skied the best I could.
Mikaela Shiffrin announced on her Instagram page Wednesday that she will sit out of the Altenmarkt-Zauchensee World Cup races this weekend to recover from an illness. “Unfortunately, I’m still not feeling fully recovered from this.