Italian skier Bassino gets 2nd straight GS win, Shiffrin 6th | MyPanhandle.com

Posted: Jan 17, 2021 / 03:42 AM CST
/ Up to date: Jan 17, 2021 / 07:53 AM CST

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Marta Bassino received her second World Cup big slalom in two days Sunday after first-run chief Mikaela Shiffrin dropped to sixth.

The Italian skier has received 4 of the 5 races within the self-discipline this season, with Shiffrin successful the one different occasion, in Courchevel in December.

“It’s so wonderful, I’m so emotional. It’s like a dream, I can’t consider it,” Bassino mentioned whereas preventing again tears in a TV interview.

The end result noticed Bassino closing in on a 13-year-old file: No Italian skier received greater than 4 big slaloms in a single season since Denise Karbon received a file 5 occasions within the 2007-08 marketing campaign.

Bassino trailed Shiffrin by three-tenths of a second after the American’s near-perfect opening run, however the Italian posted the quickest time within the closing.

The final racer on the right track, Shiffrin was nonetheless within the lead on the first break up time. Nevertheless, the Olympic GS champion was late on a flip after the primary steep half, misplaced pace and by no means regained her rhythm.

Shiffrin completed 1.27 again in sixth, equaling her end in Saturday’s race.

Bassino received the race 0.66 forward of Michelle Gisin, a day after the Swiss skier earned her first profession podium in GS.

Native favourite Meta Hrovat, daughter of the village’s mayor, Janez Hrovat, completed third, 0.73 off the lead.

The remainder of the sphere trailed Bassino by greater than a second.

Earlier than posting the Fifteenth-fastest time within the closing run, Shiffrin mentioned she had finished “plenty of evaluation” after Saturday’s race.

“Yesterday was an enormous studying expertise,” she mentioned. “I modified a bit my focus, what I’m pondering within the course whereas I’m snowboarding. It felt rather a lot higher, going with the hill and never preventing a lot.”

Nonetheless, her second run lacked the fluency of the primary on a troublesome 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 and 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 closing run.

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

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

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