ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin’s seven-race winning streak in women’s World Cup slaloms came to end Tuesday, leaving the American one short of the record for most consecutive victories in the discipline.
But the Olympic champion was quick to consider the positives.
“I was never thinking about the streak in the beginning until people started talking about it,” Shiffrin said shortly after straddling a gate about 25 seconds into her first run. “To be honest it is a bit of a relief because nobody is going to talk about it anymore.”
It was the first time in more than four years that Shiffrin failed to finish a slalom race.