“It was not straightforward on the second (run), now I really feel the vitality has gone,” stated the American, who led Ljutic by greater than half a second after the opening run.
“I might hear you cheering for Zrinka, which was really fairly cool from the begin to hear this noise. I knew she put down an incredible run and I needed to push.”
It was Shiffrin’s fifth slalom win of the season and her 58th in complete, a World Cup file for each women and men.
Shiffrin additionally set a file for many World Cup podiums in a single self-discipline with 82, having shared the earlier greatest mark with Swedish nice Ingemar Stenmark, who had 81 top-three leads to slalom within the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.
Vlhova crashed and tore ligaments in her right knee in Saturday’s big slalom close to her hometown within the Tatra mountains.
Shiffrin and Vlhova have been dominating girls’s slalom snowboarding for years and mixed to win 14 of the final 15 races, together with all eight this season, in a sequence solely interrupted by Lena Duerr when the German triumphed on the Czech resort Spindleruv Mlyn a yr in the past.
“I’ve been eager about (Vlhova) quite a bit the final 24 hours,” Shiffrin stated. “For me, personally, over these years I’ve grown to like the battles together with her. I feel at the moment she would have been so robust. So, I actually miss watching her ski at the moment and having that battle.”
With Vlhova out of the race, Shiffrin is near wrapping up her eighth World Cup season title in slalom, main third-ranked Duerr by 228 factors with three occasions left. With a race win being value 100 factors, Shiffrin can safe the title on the subsequent slalom in Soldeu, Andorra, on Feb. 11.
On Sunday, Duerr was 1.77 seconds off the lead in seventh.
Vlhova grew to become the third former general champion who had their season finish prematurely this month. On the lads’s facet, Alexis Pinturault and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde underwent surgical procedure for numerous accidents after they crashed at pace races in Wengen, Switzerland.
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