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SOLDEU, Andorra– After topping her record-setting season with profession win No. 88, Mikaela Shiffrin was asked one concern over and over once again, and she could not actually address it.
What’s next?
” What do you believe will follow? The number of success?” Johan Eliasch, president of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, wished to know after handing Shiffrin her 5th huge crystal world, the reward for winning the World Cup general title.
” I do not have a guess at the number of,” Shiffrin responded. “Often a part of me seems like that’s constantly my last success. I hope not. I keep heading for more.”
A week after climaxing of Swedish excellent Ingemar Stenmark, the American skier extended the all-time mark for profession wins by winning the last race of the season, a huge slalom at the World Cup finals on Sunday.
Her 21 st profession win in the discipline significant yet another turning point, as it moved Shiffrin past Swiss skier Vreni Schneider, who had 20 World Cup huge slalom success in between the mid-1980 s and mid-1990 s. The American has actually won 7 of the previous 8 occasions and took the huge slalom world title last month.
The total record, in between males and females, is held by Stenmark, who won 46 huge slaloms in the 1970 s and ’80 s.
The “What’s next?” concern likewise originated from her partner, World Cup downhill champion Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who performed a courseside interview after the race.
” I do not understand. You men inform me. Simply keep moving right along,” stated Shiffrin, who likewise protected the slalom and huge slalom titles this season.
When Kilde asked her about strategies to enhance for next season, Shiffrin quipped: “We can go over that later on, in personal.”
Shiffrin likewise set an individual finest of 2,206 World Cup points from 31 begins this season, 2 more than her tally in 2018-19, when she completed in 26 races.
Just one skier has actually protected more points in a season: Slovenian terrific Tina Labyrinth ended her 2012-13 project on 2,414
Later on, Shiffrin positioned for images with males’s total champ Marco Odermatt, who set the guys’s record with 2,042 points. It’s the very first World Cup season in which both the females’s and guys’s total champ completed with more than 2,000 points.
Sunday’s outcome likewise marked Shiffrin’s record 138 th profession World Cup podium, moving her one ahead of previous colleague Lindsey Vonn’s mark of 137.
However for Shiffrin, her individual preferred record came 9 years earlier.
” Truthfully, I believe most likely being the youngest Olympic slalom champ. That was truly the only record that I really ever desired, like truly striven,” stated Shiffrin, who was 18 when she won her very first Olympic gold at the 2014 Sochi Games. “It took place rather a long time earlier, and I’m still inspired today; I still had that anxious feeling up there. I was so anxious at the start … since you wish to succeed. And it does not matter about records. It’s simply you wish to succeed.”
With the sun beaming down on the Avet course, Shiffrin hung on to her first-run result in edge Thea Louise Stjernesund by 0.06 seconds. The Norwegian made her very first profession podium.
Canadian skier Valerie Grenier was 3rd, tracking Shiffrin by 0.20
3 of the leading 7 ranked racers did not complete their very first runs, as Petra Vlhova, who won Saturday’s slalom, Federica Brignone and Olympic champ Sara Hector all missed out on a gate.
Two-time world champ Tessa Worley positioned 11 th in what she stated would be the last race of her profession. The French huge slalom professional has actually won 16 races and 3 season titles, most just recently in 2015.
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