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Shiffrin wins ninth World Cup slalom this season as she nears overall title
- On Tuesday, American Mikaela Shiffrin secured her ninth World Cup slalom victory of the season in Lillehammer, Norway, setting a new single-season record for wins in one discipline.
- Shiffrin is the most successful slalom skier in history, with 73 of her record 110 career World Cup wins coming in this discipline; she reached the podium in every slalom race this season.
- Finishing with a time of 2:07.61, Shiffrin defeated Switzerland's Wendy Holdener by 1.32 seconds, a margin she described as "quite like a whirlwind."
- Emma Aicher of Germany finished third, earning 60 points, while Holdener's second-place finish kept Shiffrin's lead in the overall World Cup standings below 100.
- The rivalry between Shiffrin and Aicher culminates at the season-ending giant slalom in Hafjell, Norway, on Wednesday, with Shiffrin leading by 85 points seeking her sixth overall title.
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It's about the big crystal ball: Emma Aicher has to win the last season race and hope for a zero number of Mikaela Shiffrin. The race in the live ticker.
Mikaela Shiffrin wins the World Cup for the sixth time.
Ski racer Emma Aicher is the third in the slalom of Lillehammer to have a minimal chance of winning the overall World Cup. Rarely did Mikaela Shiffrin have to fight for it like this winter.
Shiffrin wins ninth World Cup slalom this season as she nears overall title
HAFJELL, Norway — Mikaela Shiffrin vs. Emma Aicher for the most prestigious title in women’s skiing will go to the season-ending final race on Wednesday. Shiffrin won yet another slalom on Tuesday — her ninth in 10 World Cup starts this season — by a massive margin of 1.32 seconds ahead of Wendy Holdener. That earned Olympic champion Shiffrin 100 points in the race for the World Cup overall title but Aicher’s impressive third place, awarded 60 p…
After a dominant slalom victory by Mikaela Shiffrin, however, Emma Aicher has hardly any chances. Ski star Marco Odermatt gets the early end in the season finale in his parade discipline with the men.
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