With apologies to Tom Petty and the\u00a0Heartbreakers, but the waiting is the hardest part.<\/p>\n
Vail\u2019s Mikaela Shiffrin is sitting fourth between runs at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, with Germany\u2019s Victoria Rebensburgh leading with a first-run time of 1 minute, 0.91 seconds. Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vhlova is second, 19-hundredths off the pace.<\/p>\n
Norway\u2019s Ragnhild Mowinckel is third, 37-hundredths of a second behind Rebensburg, with Shiffrin in fourth, 44-hundredths out.<\/p>\n
The second run is set for 5:45 p.m. \u2014 under the lights \u2014 in Sweden. For those calculating at home here in Vail, that would be 9:45 a.m. Mountain time. NBC Sports Network (channel 52 on local cable and 220 on Directv) goes live on the air at 9:30 a.m. If you\u2019re at work, here\u2019s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n High winds and warm temperatures, according to The Associated Press, have pushed the GS back in the schedule time-wise and down to the reserve (lower) start on the course. There has been rain on the course.<\/p>\n “They did a lot of work on the surface here, and it was an incredible effort to get this race off,” said Shiffrin, who won a gold medal in the super-G last week, to\u00a0AP. “That said, it’s a challenge to push on and get a response from the surface, so it was a balance of how hard you can push and how much risk you can take.”<\/p>\n