{"id":1317942,"date":"2020-01-28T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=472200"},"modified":"2020-01-28T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:48:18","slug":"shiffrin-to-skip-world-cup-russian-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shiffrin-to-skip-world-cup-russian-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin to skip World Cup Russian races"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After two speed wins this weekend in Bansko, Bulgaria, Mikaela Shiffrin is skipping this weekend’s World Cup events in Russia.<\/strong>
Marco Tacca | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Mikaela Shiffrin will be saying nyet to this weekend\u2019s World Cup events in Rosa Khutor, Russia, the Alpine site of the 2014 Olympics.<\/p>\n

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MEDIA ALERT \ud83d\udea8 @MikaelaShiffrin<\/a> will not be heading to the World Cup in Sochi this weekend. She\u2019ll be taking the week off to rest and get a solid training block in.\ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udc4dMeanwhile in Sochi, the forecast is calling for snow\/rain. Let\u2019s hope the weather pans out for the weekend!<\/p>\n

\u2014 U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The U. S. Ski Team tweeted on Tuesday that Shiffrin \u201cwill not be heading to the World Cup in Sochi this weekend. She\u2019ll be taking the week off to rest and get a solid training block in.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that Shiffrin is taking the weekend off after a busy stretch of six races during the last two weeks in Flachau, Austria, Sestriere, Italy, and Bansko, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Bulgaria was a particularly nice stop as she won Friday\u2019s downhill and Sunday\u2019s super-G.<\/p>\n

After winning on Sunday, Shiffrin posted an interesting entry on Facebook.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery race is such a big fight and this season I haven\u2019t been the one on top of this fight every time. Certainly, I\u2019ve been feeling sometimes like the expectations that I have or that other people may have, I\u2019m not quite living up to that. It\u2019s hard not to feel like I\u2019m failing sometimes, even though this is an incredible season. But I want to thank you for your support\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Allowing for a little perspective, it was nigh unto impossible for her to repeat her 2018-19 season in which she won a record 17 World Cups. There was no way she was going to win the overall, the super-G, the giant slalom, and the slalom globes again, even though she is leading in all of those categories except for GS, where she is in second place.<\/p>\n

When one summarizes her 2019-20 season to date, one writes, \u201cMikaela Shiffrin has won six World Cups,\u201d as if that were a disappointing result. While the number pales in comparison to 17, every other athlete on the World Cup would give vital organs to have six World Cup wins in a season.<\/p>\n

The numbers bear that out. Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova, as much as she has been a thorn in Shiffrin\u2019s side, has four World Cup wins this season. Last year was her breakout campaign and she still won \u201conly\u201d five times.<\/p>\n

With six wins \u2014 and still, two full months left in the season \u2014 Shiffrin has already doubled up Alexis Pinturault, Henrik Kristoffersen, Matthias Mayer, and Federica Brignone, all of whom have one three times this season.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead on the calendar, after the stop in Russia, the tour hits Garmisch, Germany, for a downhill and super-G. We don\u2019t know Shiffrin\u2019s plans for those races, but we\u2019ll bet the house that she\u2019ll be in Maribor, Slovenia, for GS and slalom on Feb. 15-16<\/p>\n

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After two speed wins this weekend in Bansko, Bulgaria, Mikaela Shiffrin is skipping this weekend’s World Cup events in Russia.Marco Tacca | AP Mikaela Shiffrin will be saying nyet to this weekend\u2019s World Cup events in Rosa Khutor, Russia, the Alpine site of the 2014 Olympics. MEDIA ALERT \ud83d\udea8 @MikaelaShiffrin will not be heading to […]<\/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-1317942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 03:40:08","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\/1317942","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=1317942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317949,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317942\/revisions\/1317949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}