Shiffrin in a league of her own again in Aspen SL

Swiss Lara Gut captured her 13th career Alpine Skiing Women’s World Cup victory Friday in a giant slalom race after a late fall by American Mikaela Shiffrin.

And the American was barely any less dominant in Sunday’s race, recording a combined time of one minute, 40.18 seconds over her two runs to leave the rest of the field trailing in her wake. She crashed in the giant slalom Friday but bounced back for a victory.

On day two of the races, Shiffrin wowed the crowd by winning the slalom competition by more than 3 seconds – a record breaking time in World Cup history. Veronika Velez Zuzulova of Slovakia was second, and Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter finished third.

Sweden’s Maria Pietilae-Holmner speeds down the course during the…

“I always try to just reach my goals and not to think about or not listen to what others want me to ski like”, Brem said.

Vonn said the Aspen course “wasn’t that bumpy” so she was trying to figure out what spurred the crash. She got to train on the slope a week before the races, which the Europeans didn’t get to do, and she has great familiarity racing on Colorado snow, which is different from the conditions racers typically experience in Europe.

“I am going to move from today and focus on that”.

“I didn’t feel good throughout the race”, Shiffrin said.

Shiffrin got a little wild and was off balance early in her last run or the gap may have been even more.

First she saw the digits to the right of the decimal point and thought she’d won by only 0.07 of a second.

Shiffrin’s performance Sunday capped off quite a weekend of racing after a rough start.

The Vail native pulled in two slalom wins during the three-day World Cup event.

“I’m very happy with the result, my best start of a season ever”, Zuzulova said.

“It would be fantastic for USA skiing and hopefully people would be paying attention”, said McKinney, who’s coaching and selling real estate in Squaw Valley, California. Lindsey Vonn lost her left ski in the first run and slid into the netting. That’s what Hansdotter plans to do, just to see if she can spot something.

Three top Austrian skiers went off course in the first run – Michaela Kirchgasser, Carmen Thalman and Bernadette Schild. Aspen will host another slalom race Sunday and Shiffrin will be the overwhelming favorite. “They will be fighting”. I tried to push it hard, too.