{"id":427058,"date":"2024-12-01T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427058"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Shiffrin-crashes-out-of-Killington-giant-slalom-won-by-Hector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Shiffrin-crashes-out-of-Killington-giant-slalom-won-by-Hector\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiffrin crashes out of Killington giant slalom won by Hector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin&#8217;s bid for a milestone 100th alpine World Cup victory was on hold after the US superstar crashed out of the Killington giant slalom won by Sweden&#8217;s Sara Hector on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin, already the owner of the most World Cup victories in history, was poised to claim a once unimaginable century after topping the first-run times.<\/p>\n<p>She looked on course for the win when she crashed heavily in the second leg and slid into the catch-fencing and Olympic gold medallist Hector of Sweden emerged with the victory with a total of 1min 53.08sec.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin, 29, already has 13 more World Cup wins than the most successful man, Ingemar Stenmark, and 17 more than the second woman, compatriot Lindsey Vonn.<\/p>\n<p>Needing three wins to hit 100 to start the season, she bagged her 98th and 99th career titles with back-to-back slalom wins in Levi, Finland, and Gurgl, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>That gave her a chance to complete her century in front of home fans in Killington, not far from where she attended Burke Mountain Academy as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin &#8212; who has won six slaloms at Killington but never a giant slalom &#8212; was greeted by ecstatic cheers as she crossed the finish line of the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>But her day ended not in celebration but in the 21st &#8220;Did Not Finish&#8221; in her 274 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>Skiing last in the second run, Shiffrin was 17 hundredths of a second ahead of Hector after the second sector.<\/p>\n<p>But a mistake heading into a steep section saw her lose her balance and a second error sent her spinning off the course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy, after going through a difficult period,&#8221; Hector said. &#8220;Obviously, I&#8217;m very sad for Mikaela who was skiing so well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw her fall. My heart goes out to her,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia&#8217;s Zrinka Ljutic finished second, 54-hundredths of a second behind Hector, and Switzerland&#8217;s Camille Rast was third, 1.05 seconds back.<\/p>\n<p>The women are scheduled to race a slalom on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>bb\/ea<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9653349f8b907f2a9317071211cbd895.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>American Mikaela Shiffrin greets members of a junior ski team during the Alpine World Cup stop in Killington, Vermont<\/p>\n<p>-Joseph Prezioso<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/2fb7c55d28a4d0cd55419fb52c0b253d.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>American Mikaela Shiffrin races in the women&#8217;s alpine World Cup giant slalom in Killington<\/p>\n<p>-Joseph Prezioso<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikaela Shiffrin&#8217;s bid for a milestone 100th alpine World Cup victory was on hold after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}