{"id":805119,"date":"2020-03-11T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380311"},"modified":"2020-03-11T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T19:06:21","slug":"coronavirus-concerns-end-world-cup-season-nixing-mikaela-shiffrins-shot-at-four-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/coronavirus-concerns-end-world-cup-season-nixing-mikaela-shiffrins-shot-at-four-peat\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus concerns end World Cup season, nixing Mikaela Shiffrin\u2019s shot at four-peat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-1.03.54-PM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-1.03.54-PM.png 920w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-1.03.54-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-11-at-1.03.54-PM-768x516.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\"><figcaption><strong>Mikaela Shiffrin took a month-long break from the World Cup season following the death of her father.<\/strong><br \/><em>Marco Tacca \/ AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mikaela Shiffrin\u2019s shot at a fourth World Cup overall title is finished after the International Ski Federation canceled this weekend\u2019s women\u2019s World Cup races in Are, Sweden, due to COVID-19 concerns. The races were canceled after new recommendations from the Public Health Agency of Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement means that Italy\u2019s Federica Brignone will claim the overall, with Shiffrin finishing second and Slovakia\u2019s Petra Vlhova in third with 1,189 points. Brignone is the first Italian woman to win the World Cup in the 53 years of the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe health and welfare of the athletes and all other participants, as well as the general public are in the forefront and the priority of FIS and all stakeholders,\u201d FIS wrote on their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fis-ski.com\/en\/alpine-skiing\/alpine-news-multimedia\/news-multimedia\/news\/test2\/audi-fis-women-s-world-cup-races-in-are-swe-cancelled\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns arose when a member of the sponsor support team at the FIS Alpine World Cup self-quarantined after experiencing symptoms of the Coronavirus in Kvitfjell, Norway. He later tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the support team traveled to Are (SWE) and were quarantined immediately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/coronavirus-concerns-end-world-cup-season-nixing-mikaela-shiffrins-shot-at-four-peat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin took a month-long break from the World Cup season following the death of her father.Marco Tacca \/ AP Mikaela Shiffrin\u2019s shot at a fourth World Cup overall title is finished after the International Ski Federation canceled this weekend\u2019s women\u2019s World Cup races in Are, Sweden, due to COVID-19 concerns. The races were canceled [&hellip;]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 12:20:02","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}