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Olympic champion Shiffrin dominates 1st leg of penultimate slalom but main rival Aicher is 2nd

  • Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin led the first run of the penultimate World Cup slalom, with Emma Aicher in second place maintaining competitive pressure on her overall standings lead.
  • Shiffrin's smooth run on the Störtloppsbacken course gave her a 0.51-second lead over Aicher.
  • Emma Aicher has recently emerged as a main rival to Shiffrin's bid for a sixth overall World Cup title.
  • With five events left, Aicher trails Shiffrin by 120 points, and a race win awards 100 points.
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Emma Aicher shines as fourth and second at the World Cup in Are - and makes the fight for the overall World Cup a little more exciting.

US star Mikaela Shiffrin dominates the slalom of Are, but Emma Aicher keeps up. The decision about the overall World Cup is only made last week of the season.

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Olympic champion Shiffrin takes record 8th slalom win of season but main rival Aicher is 2nd

Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin has won her record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom of the season.

·United States
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The women's slalom in Åre is underway! Mikaela Shiffrin is in the lead after the first run! But Austrian skier Katharina Truppe, currently in third place, is aiming for victory in the second run. We're reporting live – see the ticker below. Here's the live ticker: Here's the current standings: Last year's winner, Katharina Truppe, is in third place after the first run of the alpine slalom in Åre. The Carinthian skier, who started with bib number…

·Vienna, Austria
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The slalom's boss is Mikaela Shiffrin. On Sunday on the track in DÄre (Sweden), the Olympic champion took the best on Emma Aicher with 94 hundredths ahead of Germany and a second on Switzerland's Wendy Holdener. An eighth victory this season and a 109th career victory, she is approaching a sixth crystal globe. From the first round, the American imposed her style, finishing in the lead with 51 hundredths ahead of Aicher and 57 on Austrian Kathari…

Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin dominated the first round of the Are slalom in Sweden this Sunday, the last race before the finals, ahead of Germany's Emma Aicher (+0''51) and Austria's Katharina Truppe (+0''57).

·Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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WWL broke the news in on Sunday, March 15, 2026.
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