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Saturday and Sunday the first two slalom of the season: the American can gain ground in the cup and back problems seem to be behind her. With a double win, he would break another record of the legendary Ingo ...
Thursday 18 November 2021 5 minutes reading time
Mikaela Shiffrin arrived in Levi on Wednesday and she is clearly the most awaited woman in the slalom opening that will be staged, in the Lapland town, with the two races scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
Skipped, as planned, the parallel of Lech / Zuers, the American champion has a double chance to look for the first extension in the World Cup, after the "100" in Soelden, but above all there is a great desire in her to recover the throne of slalom, on which the amazing Katharina Liensberger of the 2020/21 season (world title and specialty cup) climbed. Competition has undoubtedly increased compared to the years in which Mikaela dominated far and wide, so much so that 45 of her 70 cup victories have come between tight posts.
An important number, because a historical record could fall on the “Levi Black”; Ingemar Stenmark, in fact, is the one who has won several times in a single discipline with 46 giants to his credit, Shiffrin is at -1 and in Finland he could overtake, on a track he loves and has already tamed four times ( 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019), but which also represents something special since right here, 12 months ago, he returned to the race after 300 days and the drama of the death of dad Jeff. She immediately closed second and fifth in the two challenges won by Petra Vlhova, who together with Liensberger (but watch out for Swenn-Larsson and the Swiss duo Gisin-Holdener, albeit not at their best) will be the great rival for next weekend.
Yesterday, as mentioned, the arrival in Levi and the back problems that emerged in the first days of November, during training at Copper Mountain, seem almost completely resolved as explained by the person concerned speaking to the Associated Press: "Coming here I was a little less worried - the words of Mikaela - I can say that in my ten years of career I have had far fewer physical problems than one could imagine, even if at the same time some may say that I have not pushed myself to the limit enough " .
There is also talk of the disappearance of the father, a drama that the champion defines “a different situation from the injury of a bone, a ligament or a muscle, but it is a broken heart that takes a long time to heal. And in that case there is no road map, so I think no injury, whatever happens from now on, can ever be bigger than this. "
Goals to Levi? The 26-year-old from Colorado does not exhibit herself, but explains how this year things could be very different, even and above all in slalom. “When I arrived in Levi 12 months ago, I had many more uncertainties even if I always ask myself how much I can realistically hold a certain level for a certain time. Now I'm more sure I can do it than in that period, this season seems closer to normal for me, after having experienced all the difficulties of the previous one ".
If a clear signal has already been sent in Soelden, a top-level Mikaela Shiffrin is expected again from Levi.
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