{"id":1318066,"date":"2020-02-04T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T23:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=472517"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:35:57","slug":"whats-next-for-the-womens-ski-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/whats-next-for-the-womens-ski-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for the women\u2019s ski World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of her father’s passing, Mikaela Shiffrin should take all the time she and her family need. Meanwhile, the women’s World Cup tour resumes this weekend in Garmisch, Germany.<\/strong>
Giovanni Auletta | AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

So what next for the women\u2019s World Cup?<\/p>\n

We start by stipulating that Mikaela Shiffrin should do whatever she feels she needs to do in the wake of her father\u2019s passing. If that\u2019s taking off two weeks, terrific. If she wants to call it a season, that\u2019s fine. If she\u2019d like to make her first appearance back on the slopes during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, that\u2019s cool, too.<\/p>\n

Mikaela has nothing to prove to anyone in terms of race wins, World Cup points, globes or medals. She\u2019s got everything, often in duplicate or triplicate. Ski racing is immaterial right now.<\/p>\n

The most important thing is the well-being of the Shiffrin family as they mourn their father\/husband.<\/p>\n

We take this moment to reiterate a portion of what Shiffrin tweeted in announcing her father\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n

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\u2026Thank you, from the depths of my heart, for respecting my family’s privacy as we grieve during this unimaginable and devastating time.\u201d\u2014Courtesy of Mikaela\u2019s Team \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cThank you, from the depths of my heart, for respecting my family\u2019s privacy as we grieve during this unimaginable and devastating time,\u201d Shiffrin wrote.<\/p>\n

Where things stand<\/h2>\n

Again, with the rock-solid belief that Shiffrin and her family should do anything and everything it needs to do with regard to this process, the World Cup schedule does continue. Shiffrin leads the overall with 1,125 points, ahead of Italy\u2019s Federica Brignone (955) and Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova (830).<\/p>\n

Shiffrin tops the slalom chase (Vlhova, 440-360), is second in giant slalom (behind Brignone, 375-314), third in super-G (Brignone 216, Switzerland\u2019s Corinne Suter 200 and Shiffrin at 186), and even second in downhill (Suter\u2019s ahead, 272-256.)<\/p>\n

Shiffrin bowed out of last weekend\u2019s World Cup events in Rosa Khutor, Russia, before her father passed. The 2014 Olympic site was meant to host a downhill and a super-G. Due to heavy snow, there was only super-G and Brignone was the winner.<\/p>\n

The schedule<\/h2>\n

The Russian downhill has been moved to this weekend, so Garmisch, Germany, will have two DHs (Friday and Saturday) and a super-G (Sunday). Shiffrin has issued no statement, but it\u2019s no leap of the imagination to say she\u2019s not racing this weekend, having flown back to Colorado already.<\/p>\n

Under normal circumstances, which these are decidedly not, she would race in Maribor, Slovenia, with GS and slalom on Feb. 15-16. Shiffrin\u2019s won four of her last five starts there, dating back to 2015.<\/p>\n

Crans-Montana, Switzerland, has a downhill and a combined on Feb. 22-23, followed by La Thuile, Italy, on Feb. 29-March 1 (super-G and combined).<\/p>\n

If I were to make a guess, the giant slalom and slalom on March 7-8 in Ofterschwang, Germany, would be it \u2014 the disciplines best suited to Shiffrin and a bit more than a month of time. The season wraps with a parallel slalom in Stockholm (March 10), tech events in Are, Sweden, (March 13-14) and the World Cup finals in Cortina, Italy, (March 18-22).<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s mileage may vary. As my mom said in a rare bout of humor after Pop died, \u201cI don\u2019t know. This is the first time my husband has died.\u201d When such a traumatic event happens, everyone\u2019s in a \u201cnew normal\u201d \u2014 including my mom making a tasteless, yet funny joke \u2014 and there\u2019s no predicting anything. Maybe, Shiffrin wants to absorb herself in skiing and comes back for Maribor?<\/p>\n

Bottom line: It\u2019s up to you, Mikaela, and your family. Much love and respect, whatever you chose.<\/p>\n

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In the wake of her father’s passing, Mikaela Shiffrin should take all the time she and her family need. Meanwhile, the women’s World Cup tour resumes this weekend in Garmisch, Germany.Giovanni Auletta | AP So what next for the women\u2019s World Cup? We start by stipulating that Mikaela Shiffrin should do whatever she feels she […]<\/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-1318066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 01:54:55","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\/1318066","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=1318066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318081,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318066\/revisions\/1318081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}