Shiffrin looks for second giant slalom win | Sports

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — Coming off her first slalom win this yr, U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin hopes she will decide up her second big slalom win this season on Saturday.

The Burke Mountain Academy alumna begins seventh within the within the first of two FIS World Cup weekend big slalom occasions in Slovenia.

Tuesday’s slalom win was Shiffrin’s a centesimal profession World Cup podium, as she outpaced Austria’s Katharina Liensberger by 0.19 seconds.

Shiffrin’s final big slalom was a profitable effort in Courchevel, France. the place she received by 0.82 seconds. Earlier that weekend, she had a fourth-place end.

Fellow Burke alumna Nina O’Brien begins in twenty seventh. O’Brien had a Nineteenth-place end within the big slalom in France, together with an effort the place she didn’t qualify.

American AJ Harm was twenty ninth in Tuesday’s slalom and was 18th within the big slalom in France. She begins thirty third on Saturday.

There might be one other girls’s big slalom on Sunday in Slovenia.

U.S. Aerials snowboarding athletes might be in Yaroslavl, Russia this weekend.

Shelburne native Megan Nick is one among six U.S. girls competing. This might be Nick’s second World Cup outing of the season. She was twenty second within the opening competitors in Ruka, Finland on Dec. 4.

She completed first in a Nor-Am Cup competitors on Jan. 6 at Utah Olympic Park. Final Sunday, she completed fifth in a Nationwide Championship competitors additionally held in Utah.

Ashley Caldwell, Winter Vinecki, Kaila Kuhn, Dani Loeb and Megan Smallhouse are set to compete this weekend as nicely.

On the lads’s aspect, Pelham, New Hampshire native Eric Loughran might be joined by American teammates Chris Lillis, Justin Schoenfeld and Quinn Dehlinger.

Particular person aerials occasions are set for Saturday and Sunday and there’s a group aerials occasion scheduled for Sunday as nicely.

Inexperienced Mountain Valley Faculty product Benjamin Ritchie is in Alpine snowboarding slalom motion on Saturday and Sunday. Ritchie begins in forty sixth on Saturday.

U.S. teammate Luke Winters begins forty seventh, Jett Seymour begins in 53rd and Alex Leever begins in sixty fourth.

Nordic mixed motion acquired happening Friday in Val di Fiemme, Italy. U.S.’s Taylor Fletcher completed Nineteenth with a time of 30:25 within the males’s Gunderson Regular Hill HS104/10km.

Ben Loomis completed thirty ninth, Niklas Malacinski was forty first and Jasper Good was forty fourth.

Competitors continues on Saturday with the group dash.

Friday additionally noticed the beginning of the lads’s HS140 ski leaping qualification. Decker Dean was forty first and Casey Larson was forty ninth. The group competitors is on Saturday and the person HS140 is Sunday.

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