Mikaela Shiffrin, Breezy Johnson sit out World Cup speed races

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Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson, the U.S.’ prime two Alpine skiers, are for various causes sitting out this weekend’s World Cup pace races three weeks earlier than the Olympics.

Shiffrin, who hopes to race all 5 particular person occasions on the Olympics for the primary time, selected to not race a downhill and super-G in Zauchensee, Austria, to concentrate on coaching.

She may additionally skip subsequent week’s downhill and super-G in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and return for an enormous slalom in Kronplatz, Italy on Jan. 25 for, probably, her ultimate race earlier than going to Beijing.

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Shiffrin is the world championships bronze medalist within the super-G and has two third-place finishes within the self-discipline this season. All of these outcomes got here on restricted pace coaching.

Johnson, ranked second on the earth in downhill, damage her knee in a latest coaching crash and mentioned she is going to observe medical recommendation and wait till Cortina to race once more.

“Whereas I’m feeling good total, I minimize the entrance of my knee and wanted some stitches,” was posted on her social media. “I’ve additionally been coping with some swelling due to that minimize and the bruising. I really feel nice and able to go. However my medical staff feels that I will likely be safer if I wait till Cortina, and although it hurts my coronary heart greater than my knee to observe their recommendation I do know that they know what’s finest for me.”

The world’s prime downhiller, Olympic champion Sofia Goggia of Italy, has received her final seven World Cup downhill begins courting to final season. Goggia missed two downhills throughout her run, plus final season’s world championships, after fracturing a bone in her proper knee in a crash.

Solely Austrian legend Annemarie Moser-Pröll had an extended streak with runs of eight and 11 wins in a row within the Seventies.

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