Shiffrin looks at the glass half full: "Podium ok, tomorrow I'll have to be cleaner". Duerr's joy

The American, beaten in Levi da Vlhova's first slalom, explains how "now to win you have to really earn it". The German on a cup podium almost 9 years after that victory in the Moscow city event.

Saturday 20 November 2021 4 minutes reading time

Mikaela Shiffrin smiles, also because if you don't want to talk so soon about the fight for the absolute World Cup, in front of all there is already her and the work set on the four disciplines, already thinking about the fast races of Lake Louise (despite some hitch in the back during training at Copper Mountain), could make the difference compared to rivals. What is certain is that an extraordinary champion like the 26-year-old from Colorado would always want to win, and the second place in Levi's slalom number 1 can go tight if there is always that Petra Vlhova who, for some time now, has managed to constantly contend with the US star. No victory n ° 46 in specialties (Stenmark remains at +1), but podium number 108 in CdM (and there are 49 in the last 53 slalom disputed), and Shiffrin smiles after the race. "It's the beginning ... almost perfect - explained the three-time winner of the crystal ball through the press office of the USA - Considering also the last two weeks (ie the intermittent training), I can be satisfied for a nice podium. To win, you have to really earn it and today my performance was not enough to do it, tomorrow I will try to be stronger and ski cleaner, but already today I managed to put together very solid sections. It is true that I lost in the plan of the first heat (36 cents, in the end decisive), I lacked a bit of timing. We will work on it ". A lot of joy in Germany: for the performance of the very young Emma Aicher, 14th starting with bib 60 in her first slalom in the World Cup (but in the European Cup she was scary several times in the last season ...), again in the points later the absolute debut in the parallel of Lech / Zuers, 19th, and even more for the return to the podium of Lena Duerr. The 30-year-old Bavarian, who had already shown she could return to these levels at the end of last year, took her second top 3 in her career (excluding team events, where she has always done very well), almost 9 years after that city event in January 2013 in Moscow where he revealed himself, surprisingly winning the city parallel. “It's incredible and beautiful - exclaimed the German after the race - I made a mistake in the first heat, but in the second I tried without fear because I wanted to get a good result right away. Tomorrow we will try again ”.

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