Shiffrin's performance transcends mere victory each slalom of the Olympic season. She is commanding each race and finishing with considerable leads as well.
A Night of History-Making Performance
The Alpine star from the United States earned a record-extending 105th World Cup victory after several of her primary challengers failed to finish during the first run of a evening event on Tuesday.
Shiffrin added to her first-run lead and finished 1.55 seconds ahead of Swiss skier Camille Rast and 1.71 ahead of German racer Emma Aicher.
"She has currently secured the opening four slaloms of the season – and five consecutive including the last event of the previous campaign," noted analysts.
Commanding Margins of Victory
All of her winning leads this season have exceeded a full second – with three of them more than 1.5 seconds: 1.66 in Levi, Finland; 1.23 in Gurgl, Austria; and 1.57 in Copper Mountain, Colorado before her latest performance in the French Alps.
Challengers Encounter Difficulty
Competitors striving to match Shiffrin ran into difficulty.
- Lena Duerr, the German skier who was in third place after the first run, went off course early in her second trip down.
- Lara Colturi, the born in Italy skier who races for Albania, missed a gate toward the end of her opening run – ending a streak of three straight slalom podiums.
- Wendy Holdener achieved a seventh-place finish even with a incident at the end of her first run where she hit a hole, was flipped into the air, and landed on her back.
Defending World Cup slalom champion Zrinka Ljutic and Olympic silver medalist Katharina Liensberger, the following two competitors, went out midway down the course.
This marks the third consecutive slalom that Ljutic has not completed.
Final Standings
Katharina Truppe of Austria placed fourth and American skier Paula Moltzan moved up from ninth to fifth with the quickest second run of the race.
An Iconic Career of Achievements
This win represented Shiffrin's 68th World Cup slalom victory. Her Games accolades include the slalom gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and gold in giant slalom four years later at the Pyeongchang Games. She did not reach the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games.
The upcoming winter Olympics' women’s Alpine skiing events will be held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – a venue where Shiffrin secured four medals in her four events at the 2021 world championships.
