Mikaela Shiffrin described her season as “crazy,” to put it briefly.
In specifics, she saw opponent Petra Vlhova suffer a season-ending race accident in January, saw at least three hospital trips (one to see boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde), and concluded the season on Saturday with a victory at the World Cup Finals, exactly like she did the previous year.
Combining times from two runs, Shiffrin won the slalom on Saturday in Saalbach, Austria, by 54 hundredths of a second.
With her ninth victory of the season, it was Shiffrin’s record-breaking 97th World Cup victory overall and the most on the women’s circuit. In addition, she won her 60th World Cup slalom in her career, breaking the record for most wins in a single discipline.
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