Nov 15, 2025
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Mikaeela Shiffrin opened the Olympic Games in hopes of taking control of the World Cup category in the Finnish Coprand for her 102nd career win for her 10th.
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The American star finished second after being overtaken by the fastest runner in another one-off race.
"It's a good feeling. It was really good to race today. I said we were both very strong" I feel that I just feel it, it's a shame.But in the end, in the end, if you push as hard as you can, you can't break it."
Colturi, an Italian-born competitor for Albania, matched the best results of his career.Cololuri turned 19 on Saturday.
EMMA around the circle finished third, 2.59 returned to the goal of the first scientific goat podium.The German, who turns 22 on Thursday, won the super-g auction in March.
Shiffrin's teammate Paula Moltzan, who finished second in the season-opening giant slalom in Austria three weeks ago, was 2.46 off the leaders in 19th after the first race. But that improved to fourth. She joins Aicher's teammate Lena Duerr.
"I knew I had to shift into second gear to find a lot of time. I'm very happy with my skiing on my second lap. I felt like I hit my best turn," said Moltzen, who had the second-fastest time.
Shiffrin and Moltzan are now 1-2 in the overall standings after 2 races.
Croatia's World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Lutij was fourth after the opening and finished sixth.
Shiffrin laid the foundation for her 65th slalom victory with an aggressive first run.
"This was the best run I could do. That was kind of perfect," Shiffrin said after the opening run, calling it "a wonderful feeling" to replicate some of her best skiing from training.
"Preparing for the whole summer I focused on a big slalom, so I didn't have many slalom days," said the American, who placed fourth in the GS in October.
After recovering from a horrific crash in the GS a year ago, Shiffrin announced before the season that she planned to reduce her schedule to slalom, GS and possibly super-G heading into the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in February.
Shiffrin won Olympic gold in Slam in 2014 and four years later won gold in GS.
Nine of Shiffrin's record 102 World Cup victories have come in the traditional season-opening slalom in Lapland, where the winner is awarded a reindeer.
No skier other than Shiffrin or Slovakia's Petra Vlhova has won the race in 14 editions since then — overall champion Tina Maze won in 2014.
Wallhofa, the 2022 Olympic slalom champion, is recovering from a long-term knee injury in January 2024.
On Sunday, the men's slalom is scheduled on the same hill.The women travel to Austria for another slalom next weekend.
