It was a giant slalom competition, not a slalom competition.
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"We believe the SL (slalom) and GS (giant slalom) are where I need to focus my energy," added the defending world slalom champion.
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He will take part in the giant slalom and slalom events.
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Rodolfo Dickson qualified for Alpine skiing's men's slalom and men's giant slalom.
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The following is a list of his main career achievements: Gold medal - men's combined 22015 Gold medal - giant slalom 22016 Silver medal - slalom 22017 - - - - Slalom - 2013, 2017 Giant Slalom - 2017 Combined - 2015 Team event - 2013, 2015 - - - - Overall champion - 20163, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Slalom champion - 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 Giant slalom champion - 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 (Compiled by Simon Evans; Editing by Clare Fallon)
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Slalom and giant slalom are known as the technical disciplines—tech, for short.
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The 21-year-old will be participating in giant slalom and slalom skiing.
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He has won 10 World Cup races in slalom and giant slalom this season.
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All of Stenmark's victories came in two events, the slalom and the giant slalom.
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"Right now I am planning slalom, giant slalom, Alpine combined, and Super-G," she said.
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They were there to see Shiffrin win both the slalom and the giant-slalom races.
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Disciplines: Downhill and super-G are speed events, while slalom and giant slalom are technical.
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The technical events are the giant slalom and slalom, which are both raced over two legs.
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At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., Wenzel won the slalom and giant slalom.
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The original plan was for a day of rest between the giant slalom and the slalom.
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The American won by a comfortable margin of 0.89 seconds as she claimed her second slalom of the season in addition to one giant slalom, a parallel slalom and a downhill.
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Shiffrin has spent most of her career competing in the less risky slalom and giant slalom races.
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Shannon Abeda is Eritrea's lone hopeful at the games, competing in the slalom and giant slalom events.
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A specialist in technical (giant slalom and slalom) events, he announced his retirement before this race season.
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Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway, the defending World Cup slalom champion, won a night slalom in Schladming, Austria.
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Shiffrin also leads the season-long World Cup point standings in giant slalom, slalom and super-G.
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Slalom races have courses with short tight turns, whereas giant slalom races have courses set with wider turns.
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Giant slalom: Gates are spaced farther apart than in slalom but not as far as in super-G.
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There is also an Alpine combined event with a downhill and a slalom leg, and a team slalom event.
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Across both sexes, Stenmark leads the overall list with 86 victories — 46 in giant slalom and 40 in slalom.
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Men's and women's super-G, downhill, slalom and combined (downhill and slalom) medals will be contested on Corviglia Mountain.
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She won a silver (overall performance) and two bronze medals (one in slalom and the other in giant slalom).
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GIANT SLALOM IS CANCELED Fog and rain forced the cancellation of Switzerland's classic Alpine World Cup giant slalom in Adelboden.
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The 28-year-old Hirscher already clinched the giant slalom and slalom globes, along with his sixth straight overall title.
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Ms Shiffrin has already recorded the highest ever Ski-lo rating in slalom, and the fourth-best in giant slalom.
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This month, even after limiting her slalom practice time, she won the season's opening slalom by 0.67 of a second.
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This season she has won four slalom races, two giant slaloms, one parallel slalom, the Oslo city event and a downhill.
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This season she has won three slalom races, two giant slaloms, one parallel slalom, the Oslo city event and a downhill.
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Skiing events that year were dominated by France's Jean-Claude Killy, who won gold medals in downhill, giant slalom and slalom.
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Alpine skiing consists of the traditional events in which skiers race down a hill: the slalom, the giant slalom, the downhill.
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The winds sweeping through northeastern South Korea would have made the slalom and the giant slalom races either unsafe or unfair.
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AUSTRIAN IS WORLD SLALOM CHAMPION Marcel Hirscher of Austria regained his slalom title at the world championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
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Three North Koreans will compete in the cross-country skiing and another three in the Alpine skiing slalom and giant slalom events.
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Sara Schleper (aka Sarah Schleper de Gaxiola), born and raised in the Colorado Rockies, is also competing in slalom and giant slalom.
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She has won all three slalom World Championships she has competed in and four of the past five World Cup slalom titles.
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It allowed Olympic organizers to preserve part of the schedule that featured two prominent women's Alpine races, the giant slalom and slalom.
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There was the relative disappointment of finishing third in the giant slalom, and finally came this drama-filled day in the slalom.
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His closest challenger is likely to be Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen, who is second in the World Cup slalom standings and who won silver in the giant slalom this week to add to his bronze in slalom in Sochi, four years ago.
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Shiffrin, the slalom gold medalist at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, had won two giant slalom events in the past two days before overcoming a 0.33-second deficit at her final split to capture her 33rd career victory in the slalom.
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Shiffrin already held a nearly insurmountable 198-point lead over Stuhec with two races left - a slalom Saturday and a giant slalom Sunday.
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The 28-year-old has won six successive overall World Cup titles, and leads the slalom, giant slalom and overall standings this season.
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Hirscher, who won the Alpine combined and giant slalom in Pyeongchang, had struggled in training for the slalom at the Yongpyong Alpine Center.
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In mid-December, there are a variety of other speed races and giant slalom races; Vonn usually participates in most disciplines except slalom.
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But the first of the events she had to conquer was the giant slalom, a speedier and more changeable race than the slalom.
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It scored some successes at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, where Billy Kidd and Jimmie Heuga won silver and bronze medals, respectively, in men's slalom, and Jean Saubert won a silver medal in women's giant slalom and a bronze in slalom.
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She also leads the giant slalom standings and could win that crystal globe on Sunday, which would make her the first skier — male or female — to win the World Cup in overall, slalom, giant slalom and super-G in the same season.
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She was the season World Cup winner in slalom in 2006 and had won slalom silver in the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek.
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Initially a slalom specialist, Shiffrin has expanded her repertoire to become one of the best in the world in the giant slalom as well.
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He missed out on medals at the 2010 Games, finishing fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom, and had to settle for silver in the giant slalom in Sochi where he was pipped by compatriot Mario Matt on a tough, controversial course.
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Shiffrin, also a double Olympic gold medalist and now with 56 career wins, leads the women's overall, super-G, giant slalom and slalom World Cups.
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He was sixth in the Madonna di Campiglio slalom in December and fourth in a parallel slalom city event in Oslo on New Year's Day.
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She also leads the World Cup slalom and super-G standings and is ranked third in the giant slalom, and ninth in the downhill standings.
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But Brignone is vaulting up the season World Cup giant slalom standings, having finished second in the season-opening giant slalom last month in Austria.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — At the 240 Sochi Olympics, Mikaela Shiffrin won the slalom, but in her only other event, the giant slalom, she finished fifth.
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She won the giant slalom by a huge margin on Saturday and was again in a class of her own in Sunday's slalom, her speciality.
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Super-G: Gates are spaced the furthest apart, and because its a speed event, it has a higher vertical drop than the slalom or giant slalom.
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SHIFFRIN WINS GIANT SLALOM Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States earned her second career World Cup giant slalom win and increased her lead in the overall standings.
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The Austrian is also the defending giant slalom world champion and he can add to his Pyeongchang medal haul in his favourite event, the slalom, on Thursday.
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TWO WIN U.S. SLALOM CHAMPIONSHIPS Resi Stiegler and A J Ginnis won slalom titles at the United States Alpine Championships on Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, Me.
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The 31-year-old giant slalom specialist has won two Olympic gold medals, in the combined event in 2006 and giant slalom in 2014, and five world titles.
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She decided to spend hours quizzing Ligety, the American skier and defending Olympic giant slalom champion who had single-handedly revolutionized giant slalom technique between 2012 and 2013.
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She travels to competitions with her guide dog, Aziza, and races with her husband Rob as her sighted guide in the women's slalom, giant slalom, downhill and super-combined.
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Hirscher, stunningly smooth between the gates, danced his way to the giant slalom title and the combined gold although he failed to finish his first run in the slalom.
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The tour's innovations included head-to-head competition in the form of dual racing, in which two skiers went down a slalom or giant slalom course side-by-side.
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The race capped a career-best season for Austrian Hirscher, who collected two world championship titles (slalom and giant slalom), two discipline globes and his sixth consecutive overall title.
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He has potentially four shots at a gold in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics which open on Friday - in the slalom, giant slalom, and probably the Super G and combined.
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Shiffrin has instead been racking up victories in the safer, more technical, Alpine events, like slalom and giant slalom, which are much different than the risky events Vonn prefers.
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She is one of six women to win a World Cup event in each of the five disciplines of Alpine skiing—Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom and Super Combined.
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Meillard, who had been due to compete in the slalom and giant slalom, would be flown home and would be sidelined for the rest of the season, Swiss Ski added.
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Shiffrin won Olympic gold in the slalom (2014) and giant slalom (2018) and her all-round abilities make her a strong contender in the women's combined at Jeongseon Alpine Centre.
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Although Schild was a slalom specialist, Shiffrin's all-around excellence extends to every discipline, from the adrenaline-rush speed of the downhill to the technically-demanding but less exhilarating slalom.
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She is the defending Olympic champion in giant slalom, but in a giant slalom Saturday at Killington, she was more tentative than the other top competitors in the first run.
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She said she plans to compete in the super-G, slalom and giant slalom events at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Are, Sweden, when they kick off on Feb.
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Shiffrin, who won gold in the giant slalom on Thursday, is bidding to become the first skier to successfully defend an Olympic slalom title following her triumph in Sochi in 2014.
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The 24-year-old Holdener, who has yet to win a World Cup race in slalom, could become the first Swiss to win Olympic slalom medal since Vreni Schneider in 1994.
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Shiffrin won gold in the giant slalom but finished fourth a day later in her next alpine skiing event, the slalom, coming in just eight-hundredths of a second from bronze.
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Aged 21, he became the first skier to win the classic slalom races at Adelboden, Wengen and Kitzbuehel in the same season and was crowned World Cup slalom champion, pipping Hirscher.
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Nonetheless, it is rare for any ski racing athlete, throughout an entire career, to win in each of the five disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and the Alpine-combined.
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Vlhova is the only racer to beat Shiffrin in slalom this season, and she also won two giant slaloms recently, tying with Shiffrin in the final giant slalom before the worlds.
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Nickname: Mas Born: March 2, 1989 Disciplines: Giant Slalom, Slalom, Alpine Combined, Downhill, super-G Coaches: Michael Pircher, Ferdinand Hirscher Olympic medals: Pyeongchang (gold in alpine combined); Sochi 2014 (silver in slalom) Hirscher won a sixth consecutive overall World Cup title last year, becoming the first male alpine skier to win the honour six times.
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The alpine slalom is her specialty, and Shiffrin came in as the event's favorite less than a day after winning her first gold medal in her Pyeongchang debut at the Giant slalom.
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Austria's remarkable double Olympic champion, whose only current opposition seems to come from the ski racing history books, added the slalom title to the giant slalom crown he successfully defended on Saturday.
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Hirscher has already won in giant slalom and combined at Pyeongchang and could complete his hat-trick in the men's slalom — his personal favorite event - at the Yongpyang Alpine Centre on Thursday.
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Shiffrin, 23, earned her 34th World Cup slalom victory on Sunday, moving her one win from the record for career Cup slalom wins held by Marlies Schild, one of Shiffrin's childhood idols.
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World champion in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding and a former world champion in the parallel slalom, she could yet enjoy unprecedented medal success in the two separate snow sports in Pyeongchang.
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Hirscher is on course for an eighth successive overall World Cup title and the reigning slalom and giant slalom world champion, and double Olympic gold medalist, also leads the standings in those disciplines.
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Coming into the slalom, Shiffrin's main threats were Petra Vlhova of Slovakia, who beat Shiffrin in November by 0.1 in the season-opening slalom; Frida Hansdotter of Sweden; and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland.
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For the Pakistani Karim, it has been a tough Olympics: apart from his slalom failure, he managed only 72nd in the giant slalom, exactly one place lower than in Sochi four years ago.
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Yet he still managed to recover and pip Henrik Kristoffersen by 0.17 seconds to win his sixth World Cup race of the season — three in the giant slalom and three in the slalom.
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After the giant slalom, which one-time Ligety rival Austrian Marcel Hirscher won, the American opted to skip the slalom and team events to ready himself for the season's remaining World Cup races.
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The day before the slalom, the ceremony in which she would receive her giant slalom gold medal went deep into the night, keeping Shiffrin awake more than two hours past her usual bedtime.
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The K1 canoe slalom is a sterling example of this.
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The Austrian is also the defending giant slalom world champion.
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She took home bronze in the slalom in Albertville, France.
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Shiffrin also took silver in the giant slalom on Thursday.
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In January of that same year, Muss had injured his shoulder during practice but had put off having surgery in order to keep competing in both the parallel slalom and giant parallel slalom snowboarding.
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With Shiffrin being the best in the world in the alpine slalom, having won 26 of 32 World Cup slalom events before starting the Olympics, she was clearly a favorite finish atop the podium.
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Both men had tasted Olympic success in the past with Myhrer winning slalom bronze in Vancouver eight years ago where Svindal claimed gold in super-G, silver in downhill and bronze in giant slalom.
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During Anna Veith's first run in the Giant Slalom, Miller's fellow NBC announcer Dan Hicks said that Veith, who won the Giant Slalom at Sochi 2014, had been struggling due to a knee injury.
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The youngest athlete to reach 60 World Cup victories, she is also the first skier, male or female, to win across all six disciplines: slalom, parallel, giant slalom, super-G, downhill and alpine combined.
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Shiffrin, 22, has almost exclusively competed in the shorter, slower and less risky slalom and giant slalom races and eschewed the more perilous dashes down the mountain known as the downhill and super-G.
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Significantly, Simader competes in the more challenging and dangerous speed disciplines, downhill and Super G. Usually, racers from outside the traditional Alpine skiing nations do not venture beyond the less risky slalom and giant slalom.
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This bear is great at the slalom, but that's about it.
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Shiffrin competed in giant slalom four years ago, too, placing fifth.
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She was a modest seventh in Saturday's giant slalom at Lenzerheide.
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Shiffrin, the 2014 Olympic slalom champion, did not race on Sunday.
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"Slalom is tough for me," Vonn said after failing to finish.
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"There's something to be said about this Banked Slalom," she said.
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Her closest rival, Ilka Stuhec, withdrew from the slalom on Friday.
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At seventeen, she started winning World Cup slalom races in bunches.
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She won Olympic giant slalom gold in Turin a month later.
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The women's slalom was delayed until Friday because of high winds.
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In Sunday's slalom, Petra Vlhova of Slovakia was second to Shiffrin.
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His best finish was 211th in the 266 slalom in Sarajevo.
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He also won the giant slalom at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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It was the 213th career win for Shiffrin, a slalom specialist.
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After shattering a host of records on the just completed Alpine skiing World Cup tour — most victories in a season (17); most career women's slalom wins (40); only skier to claim the overall, super-G, giant slalom and slalom championship in one winter — Shiffrin arrived in New York for a round of appearances on morning and late-night television talk shows.
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PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Ladies' Giant Slalom Gold Medalist Mikaela Shiffrin and recently-retired, four-time American Olympian Julia Mancuso, the most decorated female U.S. Olympic skier, both competed in the 2017 Audi FIS World Cup on the Red Dog run at Squaw Valley, which hosted the ladies' slalom and giant slalom events on the same run during the 1960 Winter Olympics.
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Tim Baillie, a retired slalom canoeist who won gold for Britain in the C-2 at London 2012, said part of the excitement from the slalom event is that it is "difficult to predict" the outcome.
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The most dominant skier of the modern era said he was "90 percent" certain to race in the Super G and combined events and was definitely going to take part in the slalom and giant slalom.
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Henrik Kristoffersen, a 23-year-old whose impressive results this season will make him a top contender in the slalom and giant slalom, tangled with Norway's national federation in a battle over an individual sponsorship agreement.
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So she plans to skip the downhill, focusing on the giant slalom and super-G before changing herself back into, in her own words, "snowboard girl" to race for a medal in the parallel giant slalom.
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Shiffrin, in a telephone interview on Sunday from Norway, where she has been training for this week's giant slalom and slalom races at the world championships, said her race choices were part of a meticulous plan.
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She was, for example, a prohibitive favorite in the slalom — she had won seven of nine World Cup slalom races this season — and she is the top contender for a gold medal in next week's Alpine combined.
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A giant slalom will close out the Beaver Creek program on Sunday.
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The next event in the women's calendar is the slalom on Nov.
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Canoeing is divided between slalom and sprint events, using canoes and kayaks.
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Canoeing is divided between slalom and sprint events, using canoes and kayaks.
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She placed third in the slalom, helping lift her to second overall.
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They featured giant slalom and halfpipe events for both men and women.
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A men's giant slalom on the same course is scheduled for Sunday.
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The forecast isn't pretty for the women's giant slalom here on Monday.
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No one, man or woman, has ever defended an Olympic slalom title.
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Barring injury, Shiffrin will be the prohibitive favorite to defend her slalom title at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and she will be a prime gold medal contender in two other events: the giant slalom and the Alpine combined.
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Vlhova won silver Friday in the Alpine combined — an event Shiffrin chose to skip, to the surprise of some, to preserve energy for the giant slalom and the slalom after winning the super-G on the opening day.
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The team's best shot on Thursday will come in the form of 22-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin, who won gold in giant slalom to kick off the Games before the U.S. failed to medal in slalom or super-G.
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Some athletes have considered whether or not to attend, but Britain's slalom canoeists, despite spending most of their time close to water, are no more at risk, according to John Anderson, performance director for Britain's slalom and sprint teams.
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The slalom was once Vonn's best event, too, until she started to have greater success in the speed events and the supercombined, an event that mixes one run of downhill and one run of slalom, with the times combined.
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Super-giant slalom and downhill races have fewer turns and are thus faster.
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Despite never having won gold, Austria has nine medals in the giant slalom.
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The next day, she showed up for the slalom in an angry mood.
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In traditional slalom, skiers compete one at a time, racing against the clock.
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Frida Hansdotter of Sweden clinched the World Cup slalom title earlier this month.
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In the river, we move from canoe events to the individual kayak slalom.
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Today also features the semifinals and final rounds of the individual canoe slalom.
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Four years ago she competed in the giant slalom for Thailand, finishing last.
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A year after that, she was the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history.
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She remembered finishing "four or five seconds out" in her first giant slalom.
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No athlete, man or woman, has ever successfully defended an Olympic slalom title.
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Rebensburg has three World Cup giant slalom wins to Shiffrin's two this season.
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Before this season, the federation reduced the minimum lengths for giant slalom skis.
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The season-opening giant slalom in Sölden, Austria, is set for Oct. 29.
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After the second leg, a slalom, Federica Brignone of Italy won the race.
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Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel must also be considered a strong contender after showing her versatility with silvers in both the giant slalom and downhill, while Lindsey Vonn could challenge if she can muster up a decent enough time in the slalom.
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The 27-year-old, who competed in the giant slalom and slalom in Sochi in 2014, had filed the case with Seoul Eastern District Court, claiming the KSA did not follow proper voting rules when selecting skiers for the Feb.
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Shiffrin, the defending Olympic slalom champion and a three-time slalom world champion, will be a prohibitive favorite in Wednesday's race, which could be a considerable confidence boost for her in her quest for multiple Olympic gold medals at Pyeongchang.
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Hirscher had already won the giant slalom and Alpine combined titles in Pyeongchang, has claimed the World Cup slalom title for four of the last five years and even had his coach Michael Pircher setting the course for Thursday's first run.
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