MARIBOR, Slovenia - Not even a broken gate rolling down the course could stop Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin from returning to the top of the podium in her favorite discipline.
The American won a women’s World Cup race Sunday, five days after she had failed to finish a slalom run for the first time in four years.
In light snowfall, the American was leading the field by 0.19 seconds when a gate that she had just passed correctly broke and flew down the hill. Shiffrin skied over it but managed to stay on the course.
She fell 0.