Shiffrin

Shiffrin

Postby jbotti » Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:08 pm

Pretty amazing that in a year where the WC paused for 2 weeks for the World Championships, Shiffrin has already won 9 WC races this year and has 29 WC wins before her 22 birthday. Hirscher may overtake Stenmark for most WC wins (possible but not a foregone conclusion) but he (and possibly Lindsey Vonn) may be just keeping that title warm for Shiffrin, who if she continues at this pace will obliterate the record (clearly a long way off).

Went back and checked and Stenmark won 12 races in 1979 ( a year in which they did not hold the Worlds). Jean Claude Killy also had 12 wins one year (1967) and Hircsher won 9 in 2012. Can Shiffrin win 3 more this year? Probably not because there are only 2 slaloms and 2 GS races left (and one SG). But if she wins 2 of that last 4 tech races it will be an unbelievable season, actually it already is. It should also include her first overall title. Not bad for 21!
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