Bassino wins second straight GS as Shiffrin finishes sixth in Slovenia

Mikaela Shiffrin was main after the primary run on Sunday, however Italy’s Marta Bassino used her second run to overhaul the sector on Sunday for her second World Cup big slalom win in two days at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Shiffrin completed sixth, 1.27 second behind Bassino.

“It’s so superb, I’m so emotional. It’s like a dream, I can’t imagine it,” Bassino stated in a TV interview following the race.

The Italian skier has received 4 of the 5 races within the self-discipline this season, with Shiffrin profitable the one different occasion in Courchevel in December. With the win, Bassino is closing in on a 13-year-old report: No Italian skier has received greater than 4 GS races in a single season since Denise Karbon in 2007-08.

“Yesterday was an enormous studying expertise,” Shiffrin stated of Saturday’s GS, the place she completed sixth as properly. “I modified a bit my focus, what I’m pondering within the course whereas I’m snowboarding. It felt so much higher, going with the hill and never combating a lot.”

Bassino trailed Shiffrin by three-tenths of a second after Shiffrin’s near-perfect opening run, however the Italian posted the quickest time within the remaining. Shiffrin, the final racer on the course, was nonetheless within the lead on the first break up time however was late on a flip after the primary steep part, misplaced velocity and by no means regained rhythm.

Swiss skier Michelle Gisin completed second (0.66 second behind) and native favourite Meta Hrovat, daughter of the Slovenian village’s mayor, completed third (0.77 second behind). The remainder of the sector, together with Shiffrin, completed greater than 1 second behind the winner.

Because of snow circumstances in Europe, the ladies raced on the robust Kranjska Gora course, normally used on the lads’s circuit. This weekend’s races had been moved from Maribor due to an absence of snow.

Petra Vlhova was 2.41 seconds behind in tenth place as the general World Cup chief from Slovakia noticed her benefit over runner-up Gisin diminished to only 60 factors. Vlhova has completed on the rostrum as soon as in her final 11 begins.

Federica Brignone, the defending total champion who led the GS standings coming into the weekend, was twelfth after the opening leg earlier than sliding off the observe in her remaining run.

The ladies’s World Cup continues with two downhills and a super-G in Crans Montana, Switzerland, from Friday by way of Sunday.

Shiffrin was anticipated to return to motion at one other GS, at Kronplatz in Italy, on Tuesday.

Reporting from The Related Press in Slovenia was used for this story.