Mikaela Shiffrin does not start in the new team combination race at the Alpine Ski World Championship. This also makes the possible US Dream team with Lindsey Vonn off the table.
Slalom specialist Shiffrin does without a start at the premiere of the event because after her injury from autumn and the comeback, she recently feels fit. “I have to concentrate my energy on preparing for giant slalom and slalom,” wrote the 29-year-old on social media. She had fallen at the end of November and had suffered a stab wound in the abdominal area that had to be operated on.
The two individual races are due on Thursday and Saturday of the second World Cup week. The team combination, in which a woman compete in the downhill and a team colleague in the slalom, is planned for Tuesday. “I am happy to follow the team combination event,” wrote Shiffrin: “I would have been happy to be put together with which of my great teammates.”
Vonn would have been looking forward to Shiffrin
Disputation Vonn had recently said that she would be happy to be able to contest the race with Shiffrin. Shiffrin with 99 wins and Vonn with 82 are by far the most successful racing drivers in the World Cup. Vonn had recently given a considerable comeback at the age of 40 and wants to ride the podium places in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. Your first race is the Super-G on Thursday.
