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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 in stone.
Mikaela Shiffrin built a big lead in the opening run of a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday, a day after the American ski star’s main rival sustained a season-ending injury. In the first race without Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova, Shiffrin led second-placed Croatian prodigy Zrinka Ljutic by 0.52 seconds and the rest of the field had to make up more than 1.3 on the American in the final run. Shiffrin positioned herself for career win 95 and the American could also set a record for most World Cup podiums in a single discipline, currently sharing the best mark of 81 top-three results in slalom with Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark.