Mikaela Shiffrin trains in Vail, but will not return to the race even in Crans-Montana

The champion was joined in Colorado by the trusted skiman, Johann Strobl. The head of the Atomic racing department, Christian Hoeflehner, has ruled out a return for the next weekend.

Tuesday 18 February 2020 3 minutes reading time

The return of Mikaela Shiffrin to the race is also to be excluded for the long weekend in Crans-Montana, which includes two descents and an Alpine combined in the Canton of Valais from Friday to next Sunday. This is what the great head of the Atomic racing department, the home that accompanied the American champion in all his adventure in the World Cup, Christian Hoeflehner, said clearly after the stage of Kranjska Gora: "It is to be excluded a return to the next stage, we still don't know when Mikaela will return to Europe â€. The World Cup leader has been in Colorado for more than two weeks, since that Sunday 2 February when she returned home to say goodbye to Dad Jeff, who had suffered the domestic accident a few hours before and then resulted mortal. Mikaela has resumed training in Vail, although there is the strictest confidentiality also from this point of view to respect the situation that the whole Shiffrin family is experiencing, and was joined by her trusted skiman Johann Strobl (who has followed Marcel Hirscher in the golden years). If it will be the weekend of La Thuile, or the following one in Ofterschwang with the technical competitions of 7-8 March in the German location (this seems to be the most likely choice, but obviously there are no certainties), that of the return in the race, we will only know in a few days.

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