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Daily Times
March 21, 2021
Lenzerheide: Petra Vlhova became Slovakia’s first overall Alpine skiing World Cup champion on Saturday after finishing sixth in the final women’s slalom of the season won by Austria’s Katharina Liensberger. With only a giant slalom still to come in the Swiss resort of Lenzerheide on Sunday, Vlhova has her hands on the big crystal globe with an unbeatable 136-point lead over Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami. Liensberger seized the slalom World Cup title, victory sending her 35 points clear of American runner-up Mikaela Shiffrin, while previous leader and defending champion Vlhova ended up third.
The slalom title caps a remarkable year for Liensberger, who took slalom and parallel gold medals at the world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo in February. The last Austrian to win the women’s slalom World Cup was Marlies Schild in 2012. Six times slalom World Cup winner Shiffrin gave herself the best shot at the title by going top after her second ru
When WC Finals are weather-threatened, cancellations carry a heavy weight
It’s often forgotten that prior to 2005, there were no World Cup Finals. Season titles were claimed at various times and venues when the last race of each discipline was held. Somewhere in there, the overall would be clinched, occasionally in the absence of the victor’s presence. Not very dramatic.
These days, thanks in large part to some enterprising Swiss from Lenzerheide, the World Cup Finals, as we know them today, bring all the contenders together, male and female, to create a collective finish line for the season. It’s got sporting drama … and some. This year, the titles that remain undecided include men’s overall, GS and super G. On the women’s side, the overall, slalom, and downhill remain in play.
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