MIKAELA SHIFFRIN AT the top of the slalom at the Stifel Killington World Cup on Saturday.
Independent photo/Angelo Lynn

KILLINGTON — “To be perfectly frank, I’m not sure I’m in a position to win either of these races,” Mikaela Shiffrin said on Friday night before the start of the Stifel Killington World Cup. The winningest skier in history seemed tentative. A year ago, she had failed to podium in either race at Killington, the first time in six years she had not won the slalom. Earlier this season, a bone bruise had set Shiffrin back in her training.

But on Saturday Shiffrin skied solidly to a third place in the giant slalom race.

 [See story “How The Home Team Fared on Day 1 of the Killington World Cup” here.]

Then on Sunday, in what racers and spectators alike described as near-perfect skiing in near-perfect conditions, she not only won both runs in the slalom race, but on her second run just nipped second-place finisher Petra Vhlova of Slovakia by a combined 0.33 to take her 90th World Cup win.

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