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As Mikaela Shiffrin continued her run towards excellence with a win in super-G at Cortina Sunday – her 54th career World Cup win – Lindsey Vonn failed to finish what could well be his last outing in competition on the Italian course.
Vonn, the biggest skier in history with 82 career wins, needs five more victories on the World Cup circuit to beat Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86, but she plans to take her retirement in December, but she may miss races.
If Shiffrin maintains her current dominance on women's skiing, the 23-year-old will likely reach the top of the all-time record list when she is still 20 years old. But the most immediate record on Shiffrin's radar will be that of Vreni Schneiter with the most wins in a season. The Swiss won 14 times in the 1988-89 season.
The American finished 1: 22.48 in Italy to win her third super-G win of the season, while Lichtenstein's Tina Weirather (+ 0.16) was second and Austria's Tamara (+ 0.18) ) third.
Shiffrin has a 496 points lead over her closest opponent, Slovakia's Petra Vlhova, in the overall standings, and is on her way to a third consecutive World Cup title.
The double Olympic gold medalist will be the big favorite to win a fourth consecutive world slalom title at the World Championships in Are, Sweden, next month.
For Vonn, who started her farewell season after having injuries in her body, it was a weekend where she made her comeback after an injury while racing with a splint at both knees.
Although it was a Sunday to forget for the skier with a record of 12 wins, Cortina, she was in the podium race until halfway through, where she cut a door and deviated. She finished 15th and 9th in the downhill runs on Friday and Saturday.
Hirscher beaten in Wengen
In addition, Marcel Hirscher, the most dominant male skier of his generation, had to settle for third place in the Wengen slalom, while Frenchman Clément Noël won his first World Cup victory.
The 21-year-old Frenchman took second place in Adelboden last week with a sensational premiere in Switzerland on Sunday.
He had a 0.47 second lead over Austrian Manuel Feller after the first run, without Hirscher being out of the way, and did enough during the second run to ensure the victory by 0.08 seconds.
Austrian Feller was second with Hirscher (+0.91), which ended the series of three consecutive victories of the Austrian.
Hirscher won the last seven crowns – awarded to the skier with the most points in all six disciplines – to pbad the record of five set by Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli in 1993.
The double Olympic gold medalist from PyeongChang 2018 has also won five of the last six World Cup slalom titles and five of the last seven end-of-season giant slalom titles.
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