Los Angeles (AFP)
Mikaela Shiffrin, who already dominates the Ski World Cup after winning the first two slaloms of the season, aims to continue this weekend in Lake Louise (Canada) downhill and Super-G, a sign of his great appetite for victories.
Unbeatable on the technical events, Shiffrin could have missed out on this Canadian weekend, but she seems determined this season to shine on the speed events as well.
Especially since the American is so versatile that she has become formidable in every race where she starts, as evidenced by her 2nd and 3rd places at the giants of Sölden (Sweden) and Killington (United States). United).
His goal: to get even more, and faster, into the pantheon of downhill skiing. For only 24 years, the American joined last week on the "Super Star" in Killington the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll with 62 wins in the World Cup.
Shiffrin now eyeing the legends of the discipline: Marcel Hirscher (67 wins), which she could overtake this season, Lindsey Vonn (82) and Ingemar Stenmark (86).
"It's a different time now, but records are also a symbol of what I achieve" every weekend, Shiffrin reacted on Sunday.
Easy victorious at Killington in front of her main rival last year, the Slovak Petra Vlhova (2 sec 29 / 100th behind!), She will be wary of her compatriot Alice McKennis and Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, the fastest Tuesday during the first workout, right in front of ... Shiffrin (17 hundredths).
Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer, who won the specialty globe last season and won on the Canadian track on both weekend runs, finished fourth (82 / 100th).
"Injured to a meniscus", the French Tiffany Gauthier will be "repatriated to France for additional exams," said Tuesday the French Ski Federation (FFS) on Twitter.
The second session, scheduled for Wednesday, was canceled because of too much snow on the track.
Program (French hours)
Friday: Descent at 20:30
Saturday: Descent at 8:30 pm
Sunday: Super-G at 19:00
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