Bobble costs Mikaela Shiffrin World Cup slalom win in Sweden

A small mistake in a single flip throughout her second run received Mikaela Shiffrin in her backseat ever so briefly, dropping the American to 3rd in Friday’s girls’s World Cup in Are, Sweden, behind Slovakian Petra Vlhova and Austria’s Katharina Liensberger.

It’s Vlhova’s second consecutive slalom win and fourth of the season. With the victory, Vlhova added to her lead and took an enormous step towards defending her slalom globe. Vlhova additionally took the lead over Switzerland’s Lara Behrami-Intestine.

How on earth did she pull that restoration off?! Third for @MikaelaShiffrin at @WorldCupAre. Congrats to the rostrum!! #worldcupare pic.twitter.com/Wdxx6DATuO

— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Workforce (@usskiteam) March 12, 2021

Shiffrin and Vlhova began the night run at finish of the flip, the Slovakian main by 0.41 seconds. Whereas Shiffrin did properly to remain up after showing to collide with a gate in the course of the second run, the error bumped her out of inexperienced numbers and allowed Liensberger to slip into silver.

Vlhova’s win all however secures her second straight World Cup slalom title. The Slovakian leads Shiffrin, 580-495, within the quest for the globe with solely two races remaining, together with one other slalom on Saturday in Are.

With an 85-point lead with 200 factors left on the desk, Vlhova should make a significant mistake — doubtless must DNF — for Shiffrin to climb again into rivalry.

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