"Mikaela Shiffrin earned a place on the podium of a World Cup giant slalom for the first time in two years Saturday, finishing third in the last GS before the Milan Cortina Olympics. The race was won by defending Olympic champion Sara Hector, who held on to her opening run lead for her first victory since January 2025. You always have to keep working, it's so many strong girls as you can see today, the Swedish winner said in a course-side interview."
"Shiffrin, the 2018 Olympic GS gold medalist, trailed Hector by 0.23 seconds and the American shared the podium with second-placed teammate Paula Moltzan, who was 0.18 off the pace. Shiffrin holds the women's record for most career World Cup GS wins with 22 but hadn't had a top-three result in the discipline in 11 events since coming runner-up at a race in Slovakia in January 2024."
Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the giant slalom podium, finishing third in the final World Cup GS before the Milan Cortina Olympics. Sara Hector held her opening-run lead to claim victory, her first World Cup win since January 2025, with Paula Moltzan second. Shiffrin trailed Hector by 0.23 seconds and Moltzan was 0.18 off the pace. Shiffrin holds the record with 22 World Cup GS wins but had not recorded a top-three GS finish in 11 events since January 2024. She crashed days after that race, missed GS competition until 2024-25, sustained severe abdominal and oblique injuries in November 2024 and experienced lingering post-traumatic stress disorder. This season she posted three fourth-place finishes before returning to the podium three weeks ahead of the Olympic GS, and the U.S. team produced strong results with Nina O'Brien fifth and AJ Hurt eighth.
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