Alpine Skiingthe return of the champion
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Mikaela in Finland for finishing, after more than two weeks of training at Copper Mountain. Meanwhile, he congratulates the girls on the podium in the giant of national championships staged right in Colorado.
Tuesday 17 November 2020 3 minutes reading time
Exactly three hundred days, those that will expire next Saturday, on the occasion of the first of the two Levi slaloms that will give a second start to the World Cup after the opening in Soelden.
Three hundred days after the super-g of Bansko on January 26 last, which won in front of Marta Bassino, Mikaela Shiffrin will also give a second start to her career, for the highly anticipated return to the race after the death of dad Jeff, the pandemic (which prevented her from competing in Are in the final of last season, just a few hours after her return to the Swedish parallel) and the uncertainty in terms of physical conditions that convinced her to jump the inaugural giant on the Rettenbach of last October 17th.
Shiffrin has already arrived in Levi to have the opportunity to adapt to the conditions she will find in the race weekend, in two slalom already crucial to understand at what level we will find the American champion, especially in the comparison in this discipline with Petra Vlhova. Mikaela has been training with good quality at Copper Mountain in the last two weeks, working hard on "her" slalom since early November; yesterday evening, she also complimented the girls on the podium in the giant of the US national championships which took place on Monday.
In fact, at Copper Mountain, the first seasonal race at FIS level on the snows of Colorado awarded the title of the 2020 national review canceled last March between Panorama and Aspen, obviously due to the pandemic. Katie Hensien won the ''99 class, with 63 hundredths of a margin on Keely Cashman and 76 on Allie Resnick, after finishing the first heat in the lead with 4 tenths of a margin on Mikaela Tommy, the Canadian already with experience in CdM who the end finished in sixth position.
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