Just as the Olympic season is starting, Mikaela Shiffrin faces maybe her toughest challenge yet in the slalom.
Shiffrin, the reigning Olympic, world and World Cup champion in the discipline, goes into this weekend’s World Cup races in Killington, Vt., having taken second in the last two slaloms behind emerging Slovakian Petra Vlhova.
Sunday’s slalom in Killington, following a giant slalom on Saturday, could determine in the eyes of many the Olympic slalom favorite.
The broadcast schedule:
- Giant Slalom first run – Saturday, 9:45am (Stream here)
- Giant Slalom second run – Saturday, 12:30pm (Olympic Channel) (Stream here)
- Slalom first run – Sunday, 9:45am (Stream here)
- Slalom first run – Sunday, 1 pm (NBC) (Stream here)
Shiffrin, who is 22 like Vlhova, is the reigning World Cup overall champion, an award that honors the best skier across all disciplines over the course of a season.