Paris (AFP)
On the Killington track, Mikaela Shiffrin can reach and overtake the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll (62 World Cup victories) on the charts and pursue the legends Marcel Hirscher (67), Lindsey Vonn (82) and Ingemar Stenmark (86).
In Vermont, Mikaela Shiffrin feels at home. She grew up on skis a hundred miles from the Killington Trail at Burke Mountain Academy. And since the white circuit is stage - the first took place in November 2017 - she has not left a single slalom to his rivals, on a track that suits him perfectly.
For this year, she can add a little bit of history: she currently has 61 victories, after her success last week at Levi in slalom, and achieving the double in front of her fans, she would exceed the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll at winners of the World Cup victories.
At only 24 years old, she would have before her only three skiers (all removed from the slopes) to fetch - Marcel Hirscher, Lindsey Vonn and Ingemar Stenmark--, to settle at the top of the pantheon of alpine skiing.
The competition looks however very tough, starting Saturday with the giant slalom. In the most open and indecisive discipline in recent seasons, Shiffrin has scored four successes in 2018/19, giving away the other races to Italy's Federica Brignone (1), France's Tessa Worley (1) and Slovakia's Petra Vlhova (3). , including a shared victory with Shiffrin).
Especially since she still has not won a giant in Vermont and this winter, a new addition to the list of contenders, the young New Zealander Alice Robinson (17), winner for the opening in Sölden at the end of October, further reinforcing uncertainty and suspense.
And on the Sunday slalom, Vlhova will want to take revenge on Shiffrin, one week after leaving the track in the second leg at Levi between pickets tight, while she had achieved the best time of the first run.
Program (local hours, French hours)
Saturday: ladies giant slalom. 1st leg 09:45 (15:45), 2nd leg 13:00 (19:00)
Sunday: ladies slalom. 1st leg 09:45 (15:45), 2nd leg 13:00 (19:00)
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