{"id":1317867,"date":"2020-01-23T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=471966"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:48:18","slug":"shiffrin-fourth-in-world-cup-downhill-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shiffrin-fourth-in-world-cup-downhill-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin fourth in World Cup downhill training"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikaela Shiffrin skis down to fourth in World Cup downhill training on Thursday in Bansko, Bulgaria. The ladies have two downhills and a super-G this weekend in Bulgaria.<\/strong>
Marco Tacca | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

It appears to be \u201cgame on\u201d for the women\u2019s World Cup in Bansko, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Mikaela Shiffrin finished in fourth during Thursday\u2019s training run behind Switzerland\u2019s Joana Haehlen, Italy\u2019s Federica Brignone and Austria\u2019s Tamara Tippler.<\/p>\n

Thursday was the only dress rehearsal the ladies have. In addition to your regularly scheduled downhill and super-G in Bulgaria on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, the women also have the \u201cVal d\u2019Isere\u201d downhill today in Bansko, rescheduled from France on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n

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Training results do not necessarily translate to results on race day, but Shiffrin has to feel pretty good about getting down the hill in fourth in her maiden voyage on this slope.<\/p>\n

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Shiffrin will start in the No. 16 bib today.<\/p>\n

Petra?<\/h2>\n

Looking over Thursday\u2019s training results, it\u2019s nice to see Shiffrin\u2019s teammate Breezy Johnson in sixth. Johnson has had a hellish run of injuries and it would bee great to see her get an opportunity to display her talent.<\/p>\n

Further down the results was a bit of a shocker \u2014 Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova finished 10th. If that sounds a bit surprising, well, it is. Shiffrin\u2019s chief rival for the overall and slalom has competed in only one World Cup downhill in her career \u2014 finishing 17th in Are, Sweden, back in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it\u2019s a surprise guest to this weekend\u2019s speed events in Bansko, Bulgaria. Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova appears to be racing in her first downhill since 2018. (AP Photo\/Marco Tacca)<\/strong>
Bulgaria Alpine Skiing World Cup<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Shiffrin leads Vlhova, 975-726, in the points. With speed events taking up five of the next six weekends on the women\u2019s World Cup tour, the Slovakian appears to be rolling the dice to see if she can gain ground on Shiffrin.<\/p>\n

Since we focus more on the tech side of things, let\u2019s take a look at the downhill this season Your DH winners have been the Czech Republic\u2019s Ester Ledecka (Lake Louise, Alberta, first race), Austria\u2019s Nicole Schmidhofer (Lake Louise, second) and Switzerland\u2019s Corinne Suter in Altenmarkt, Austria.<\/p>\n

Suter leads the downhill points with 225, followed by Ledecka (182) and Schmidhofer (154). Shiffrin is actually seventh in the downhill points with 106 by finishing 10th and second in Lake Louise in December.<\/p>\n

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Mikaela Shiffrin skis down to fourth in World Cup downhill training on Thursday in Bansko, Bulgaria. The ladies have two downhills and a super-G this weekend in Bulgaria.Marco Tacca | AP It appears to be \u201cgame on\u201d for the women\u2019s World Cup in Bansko, Bulgaria. Mikaela Shiffrin finished in fourth during Thursday\u2019s training run behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 04:11:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317884,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317867\/revisions\/1317884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}