Shiffrin's choice is clear: speed training from a World Cup perspective, "but I will only compete if I am competitive"

Mikaela explained, even before the slalom in Zagreb, that he still hasn't put his long skis back (almost a year after Bansko's victory), but in Cortina he should play super-g and combined. For the cup, a gap between Crans-Montana and Garmisch?

Tuesday 5 January 2021 4 minutes reading time

He reiterated it several times, “I don't think about the World Cup, there are athletes much more ready than me right now”, and Mikaela Shiffrin is continuing in that direction. Work to get back to the top in giant and slalom, and only then think about the comeback in speed races; before last Sunday's race in Zagreb, the American champion reiterated at the conference that "I have not yet had the time and the opportunity to train with long skis, but the plan is to be able to do a couple of workouts before the giant of Kronplatz ( scheduled for Tuesday 26 January, ed) ". Mikaela, as expected, will not be in St. Anton, to then return to the competition on Tuesday 12th in the night slalom in Flachau, with the great goal of winning again even in the tight posts over a year after the last time (29 December 2019 in Lienz), and then head to the two giants of January 16-17 in Maribor. It is clear, in view of the general classification, at least some heavy results in speed would be needed for Shiffrin, now third at 230 points from Vlhova (and a hundred from Gisin), to see her fighting for her fourth absolute crystal ball, but hardly the we will see in the race in the Crans-Montana descents and in the super-g (recovery of the one canceled in Sankt Moritz) which will close the weekend on Mont Lachaux on January 24th. The idea is to train precisely for the world championships in Cortina, where the champion of Eagle could participate in super-g, as reigning champion, combined (which instead she gave up in Are 2019) and obviously the two technical disciplines . Before the world championship event, there would be the Garmisch fast races (30-31 January) as a possibility for a Shiffrin who, it must be remembered, has not approached the super-g since last January 26, 2020, when she won in Bansko in front of Marta Bassino. "Yes, the hypothesis of competing in speed in Cortina is not to be discarded - confirmed Mikaela, who triumphed in the super-g on the Olympia delle Tofane on January 20, 2019, without even participating in the downhill tests - Probably not I will need a lot of training, but it will have to be productive and only then will we understand if it is possible. I want to be there only if I am competitive at the highest levels, I would not want to take the place of any teammate ”.

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