Overall World Cup leader Brignone captures giant slalom gold, Shiffrin skis out in Sweden

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 9:42 AM EST | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Federica Brignone is inactive a relentless victor successful elephantine slalom races and Mikaela Shiffrin is inactive searching for signifier aft her superior clang successful November.

Brignone was fastest successful some runs of a World Cup elephantine slalom Saturday to people a dominating triumph and instrumentality different large measurement toward a 2nd vocation wide title.

Shiffrin failed to decorativeness successful the archetypal tally successful Åre, Sweden, going retired erstwhile she skied wide aft approaching a right-hand crook excessively fast.

Brignone raced past successful the day arsenic the first-run person and extended her borderline to 1.36 seconds implicit Alice Robinson. Lara Colturi was third, trailing Brignone by 1.43.

Valérie Grenier of St. Isidore, Ont., finished conscionable 0.14 seconds disconnected the podium successful 5th place, clocking a full clip of 1 infinitesimal 54.24 seconds.

Despite holding a immense lead, the Italian prima pushed for much velocity and astir crashed wrong show of the decorativeness erstwhile she was launched up with some skis disconnected the snow.

"It was a spot slippery. Then I had that mistake and I said, `Oh no, this is over,"' she said.

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Brignone has won each elephantine slalom contention she has completed this season, including a satellite championships golden medal past month. She failed to decorativeness successful 3 World Cup races.

Robinson's accordant results means she inactive leads Brignone successful the elephantine slalom standings by 20 points with 1 contention near connected March 25 astatine Sun Valley, Idaho.

"It's an astonishing fight," Brignone said of her rival from New Zealand. "She has been connected the podium each contention and she's an astonishing skier."

Brignone is racing toward a 2nd wide World Cup rubric astatine property 34.

With 100 points earned for Saturday's win, she leads by 322 implicit Lara Gut-Behrami, the defending champion, who placed ninth.

Brignone's 36th vocation World Cup contention triumph besides was her 21st since turning 30, a grounds successful the women's World Cup. Downhill large Lindsey Vonn has 15 wins since her 30th day and Gut-Behrami has 12.

Sofia Goggia has 4 wins successful her 30s and inactive nary podium effect successful elephantine slalom for 7 years. Starting the 2nd tally successful 2nd place, Goggia was connected way to acceptable the fastest clip erstwhile she came to a halt aft taking excessively overmuch velocity done a turn.

Shiffrin has present started 3 elephantine slaloms since suffering a heavy puncture coiled successful her tummy during a GS clang successful Killington, Vermont much than 3 months ago. Her results person been a 25th place, failing to suffice for a 2nd tally and present a "did not finish."

The United States prima has returned to apical signifier successful slalom, which is raced Sunday. She got her record-extending 100th vocation World Cup triumph successful a slalom 2 weeks ago.

Brignone and Gut-Behrami some skip racing successful slalom.