LEVI, Finland — Practice made perfect for Petra Vlhova on Saturday, beating Mikaela Shiffrin in the first World Cup slalom of the season. The Slovakian overall champion had been training for three ...

United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin, left, and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova during the reconnaissance of the course during the first run of an alpine ski World Cup women’s slalom race, in Levi ...

Slovakia's Petra Vlhova speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski World Cup women's slalom race, in Levi, Finland, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta) ...

Heading into Sunday’s second run with a 0.76-second lead, the only way Petra Vlhova wasn’t going to walk away with back-to-back World Cup slalom wins and a record seventh victory on the Levi Black ...

LEVI, Finland, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Mikaela Shiffrin extended her record to 89 World Cup victories when she won the women's slalom in Levi on Sunday after her rival Petra Vlhova from Slovakia ...

Vlhova, a 29-year-old Slovakian, said Monday that she will miss the first two races: Saturday's season-opening giant slalom in Sölden, Austria (live on Peacock), and a Nov. 17 slalom in Levi ...

Slovakia's Petra Vlhova was in a class of her own on Saturday as she finished the women's World Cup slalom race in Levi, Finland, more than a second in front of her rivals, while favourite ...

Mikaela Shiffrin is widely regarded one of the best skiers to have taken to the slopes. However, she hasn't gone unchallenged in her career, and has had a long rivalry with Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova.

Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova has dominated the first women's World Cup slalom of the season by clearly winning both runs. ... in Levi, Finland, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023.

Petra Vlhova, who led Shiffrin by ... It was Shiffrin’s record seventh win in Levi, where no skier other than her or Vlhova has won the traditional season-opening slalom since 2016.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has won a women’s World Cup slalom after first-run leader Petra Vlhova looked set for a clear victory until straddling a gate and not finishing her final run.

LEVI, Finland (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin dealt with a bone bruise in her left knee following a recent training crash to finish fourth Saturday in the first women’s World Cup slalom of the season ...