{"id":1867865,"date":"2023-03-04T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T02:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/skier-shiffrin-locks-up-overall-title-still-chases-win-86\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T02:58:02","slug":"skier-shiffrin-locks-up-overall-title-still-chases-win-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/skier-shiffrin-locks-up-overall-title-still-chases-win-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Skier Shiffrin Locks Up Overall Title, Still Chases Win 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fskier-shiffrin-locks-up-overall-title-still-chases-win-86%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1867865&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<p>KVITFJELL, Norway\u2014American skier Mikaela Shiffrin accomplished what she called &#8220;the big, big goal for me this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t an 86th career win, however.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin won her fifth World Cup overall title on Saturday by taking fifth in the downhill. This is widely considered to be ski racing&#8217;s most prestigious prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s really amazing. That [overall title] was like the big, big goal for me this season,&#8221; Shiffrin added. &#8220;I had such a big focus on it that I was even talking about it in interviews in the beginning of the season. Normally I don&#8217;t talk about it so much because it takes a long time to figure out if you can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>American was able to extend her quest for another win in the race by completing a second day of super-G competitions on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin needs one victory to match Ingemar Stenmark &#8216;s total on the all-time overall winners list\u2014between men and women. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Swede participated in these events.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5099822\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/Norway_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_23063366379460-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/a> United States&#8217; Mikaela Siffrin speeding down the course in an alpine ski, World Cup Women&#8217;s Downhill Race, Kvitfjell Norway on March 4, 2023. (Stian Lysberg Slum\/NTB Scanpix via AP<\/figure>\n<p>Shiffrin and former American teammate Lindsey Vonn broke a tie in the women&#8217;s all-time list. Vonn was a winner with 82 victories when she retired in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kajsa Victorkhoff Lie was the winner of Saturday&#8217;s race. She became the first woman from Norway to win downhill in World Cup skiing&#8217;s 56-year history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5099814\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/Norway_Alpine_Skiing_World_Cup_23063423716113-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/a> Kajsa Vickhoff-Lie (C), Norway&#8217;s winner of the World Cup Women&#8217;s Downhill Ski Race, is seen on the podium together with Sofia Goggia, second from Italy, and Corinne Suter, third from Switzerland, at Kvitfjell in Norway on March 4, 2023. (Marco Trovati\/AP Photo)<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We are so used to the [Norwegian] men winning downhills, so I didn&#8217;t even know that before this season,&#8221; Lie said. &#8220;For me, I wanted to win a downhill, that&#8217;s been my dream. And it&#8217;s always been a dream of me to have a home race, to have everybody here. I wanted to give them a show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sofia Goggia finis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8220;Continue reading More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/skier-shiffrin-locks-up-overall-title-still-chases-win-86_5099786.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Skier Shiffrin Locks Up Overall Title, Still Chases Win 86<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KVITFJELL, Norway\u2014American skier Mikaela Shiffrin accomplished what she called &#8220;the big, big goal for me this season.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t an 86th career win, however. Shiffrin won her fifth World Cup overall title on Saturday by taking fifth in the downhill. This is widely considered to be ski racing&#8217;s most prestigious prize. &#8220;That&#8217;s really amazing. 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