{"id":1304647,"date":"2019-03-02T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449205"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:52:22","slug":"vails-mikaela-shiffrin-clinches-third-world-cup-title-after-snow-cancels-super-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/vails-mikaela-shiffrin-clinches-third-world-cup-title-after-snow-cancels-super-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail\u2019s Mikaela Shiffrin clinches third World Cup title after snow cancels super-G"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very quietly, Mikaela Shiffrin clinched her third World Cup championship on Saturday after snowstorms in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, wiped out Saturday\u2019s women\u2019s super-G.<\/p>\n

Shiffrin, 23, of Eagle-Vail, who opted not to race this weekend and is training in Italy, has a 719-point lead over second-place Petra Vlhova with a maximum of 700 points now remaining this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s quite strange because I am sitting here right now on my bed,\u201d Shiffrin said in a video posted to Twitter. \u201cI could go jump around and do a little happy dance and that. I feel like nobody really needs to see that. It\u2019s just, it\u2019s pretty crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thank you. Simply, thank you.#weareskiing<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Fm46Iw4GPl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) March 2, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kinda apropos. Shiffrin has just gone about her business \u2014 regardless of what other people think \u2014 and etched her name into the history books.<\/p>\n

OK, she\u2019s made it clear that she doesn\u2019t care about history when she skis, but it\u2019s getting harder to ignore.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The only Americans to win three overall titles in a row are Phil Mahre (1981-83) and Lindsey Vonn (2008-10).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Only one American has ever won more than three World Cup championships \u2026Vonn (four, 08-10 and 2012).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shiffrin is now tied for third on the women\u2019s list for most World Cup championships with Austria\u2019s Petra Kronberger, Switzerland\u2019s Vreni Schneider, and Croatia\u2019s Janica Kostelic. Only Annemarie Moser-Proll (six) and Vonn (four, if\u00a0it isn\u2019t\u00a0apparent by\u00a0now) have won more big globes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The key to No. 3<\/h2>\n

Despite much hullabaloo during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships with Vonn and Bode Miller questioning why Shiffrin would skip the downhill and the super-G, Mikaela made the decision that she\u2019s going to race when, where and how much she feels comfortable.<\/p>\n

She learned from trying to take on too much during the 2017-18 season \u2014 adding more speed races and attempting to compete, at least initially, in all five events at the Olympics \u2014 and adjusted.<\/p>\n

Between 23 World Cup starts and three at worlds, she has won 16 of the 26 races she\u2019s entered this season. She has 22 podiums in 26 outings. The only race she didn\u2019t finish in the top five was a ninth-place finish in a Lake Louise, Alberta, downhill.<\/p>\n

What worked for Vonn, entering pretty much everything, doesn\u2019t work for Shiffrin, which isn\u2019t surprising because they\u2019re different people. Let us resolve not to question Shiffrin\u2019s scheduling again \u2026 ever.<\/p>\n

The moments that mattered<\/h2>\n

\u2022 Shiffrin winning super-G in Lake Louise wasn\u2019t overly shocking, though it did complete the cycle of winning in every major Alpine event (downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and combined). What was a shot across the bow to the entire field was winning the St.\u00a0Moritz, Switzerland, super-G one week later.<\/p>\n

That showed it wasn\u2019t a fluke. It\u2019s worth noting that Shiffrin is 4-for-4 in super-Gs this season.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shiffrin has earned 960 points of a possible 1,000 this season. With two city events, a parallel slalom and seven regular slaloms, she\u2019s won eight times and finished second twice. As good as Vlhova is, Shiffrin\u2019s 960 points from slalom alone would place her second on the overall World Cup points only 115 points behind the Slovakian for the hypothetical lead.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Winning the giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy, back in January\u00a0was huge. Shiffrin doesn\u2019t have many ghosts in her career because she\u2019s been so successful, but Kronplatz has been a problem venue for her. By winning, she showed she was dialed in for worlds.<\/p>\n

\u2022 And though worlds don\u2019t count toward the World Cup and her third title, two golds and bronze are three more steps for her toward\u00a0skiing immortality. Quite frankly, she was probably skiing well enough to win the giant slalom, but bad weather held her to the bronze.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, she is the first athlete to win four gold medals in a row in an event at worlds with her slalom win last month.<\/p>\n

The finishing touches?<\/h2>\n

\u2022 Shiffrin has four or five races left in her season. She\u2019s definitely in for GS and slalom in the Czech Republic next weekend. As for the World Cup finals in Andorra, does she compete in super-G or does she stick to the GS and slalom? (As already illustrated, we support her decision because she clearly knows what she\u2019s doing.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Can she win the giant-slalom globe for the first time in her career? Shiffrin leads France\u2019s Tessa Worley, 455-374, with Vlhova at 318 points and Italy\u2019s Federica Brignone at 310. While her slalom skill is unquestioned, Shiffrin has been either second or third in this discipline during full seasons since 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Can she break the record for most wins in a season? We\u2019re going to go out on a limb and say yes as she needs to win just one of her final four tech races this season to get World Cup victory No. 15. Schneider (1988-89) and Shiffrin are tied at 14 right now.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Can Shiffrin hit 2,000 points? She\u2019s sitting on 1,794, entering the home stretch. Only Croatia\u2019s Tina Maze (2,414 in 2013) and Austria\u2019s\u00a0Hermman Maier (2,000 in 2000) have hit that mark.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

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