Mikaela Shiffrin Is The Best In The World And She Needs A Nap

Mikaela Shiffrin looked tired. She wasn’t arcing as smoothly in this, her last race of the season; she wasn’t fighting as much. The fact that even that performance at Aspen on Sunday still put her in sixth — one many athletes on the World Cup circuit would love to have, yet considered a lackluster one for Shiffrin…

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Air Force Flyover Severs Cable Cam, Nearly Downs Ski Lift At World Ski Championships

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — There was a crash today at the men’s giant slalom in the Alpine World Ski Championships, but it wasn’t a racer that hurtled to the ground. It was a cable camera, its wires severed by a too-close flyover from the Swiss Air Force. That was frightening enough, but it was just inches from true…

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