"Her skiing is so strong, and it's been building, building, building, Shiffrin said about Rast. The last races she had some mistakes that cost time. And today, how I saw her ski the first run, ah, I had to go 120% in order to have a shot. So, it was a big, big, amazing day for her. Shiffrin was still satisfied with her own skiing and celebrated by pumping her fist after finishing her final run, when Rast was yet to start."
"I had a really specific goal for my skiing for the second (run), a little bit technical thing, and I felt like I really accomplished that, Shiffrin said. This was the hardest I could push. I pushed so hard, it was like a small mistake here and a small mistake there and I don't think that cost time. That was just how hard I was trying. I could feel these turns that I wanted to feel."
Forty-five days before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics women's slalom, Camille Rast ended Mikaela Shiffrin's six-race World Cup slalom winning streak with a 0.14-second victory in Slovenia. Rast posted the fastest time in both runs to secure her fourth career win and third in slalom, holding a first-run lead despite previous mistakes in recent races. Shiffrin pushed hard and executed technical goals in the second run but fell short. Rast also won the giant slalom the day before and dedicated that victory to victims of a Crans-Montana bar fire. Rast credited energy and preparation for her double weekend.
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