LARA GUT-BEHRAMI

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the world championships.

Italian skier Federica Brignone won the women’s combined race on the opening day of the world championships after defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin skied out near the end of her slalom run.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin has won a record 83rd World Cup race.

Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of Lindsey Vonn’s women’s World Cup wins record will go on for at least another day.

Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin is the latest elite skier to test positive for COVID-19 with the Beijing Games less than six weeks away.

Mikaela Shiffrin has won the season-opening women’s World Cup giant slalom by beating world champion Lara Gut-Behrami in a close fight for her 70th career victory.

New Zealand's Alice Robinson reacts after completing an alpine ski, women's World Cup giant slalom, in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, Sunday, March 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)LENZERHEIDE – An aggressive second run lifted teenager Alice Robinson ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin to win a giant slalom that ended the women’s World Cup ski season on Sunday. It was the 19-year-old New Zealander’s third win in giant slalom on the World Cup circuit. Marta Bassino, who already secured the season-long giant slalom title, trailed by 1.45 in seventh. One day after being crowned the overall World Cup champion, Petra Vlhova ended her tiring season with an 11th-place finish.

Switzerland's Corinne Suter celebrates on the podium after she won the gold medal in the women's downhill, at the alpine ski World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. ___12:10 p.m.Corinne Suter won the women's downhill at the world championships to give Switzerland its second gold medal. AdGerman skier Kira Weidle finished 0.20 behind for silver and Lara Gut-Behrami was 0.37 back in third. Gut-Behrami won gold and Suter silver in Thursday's super-G.American racer Breezy Johnson came nine-tenths off the lead in ninth. ___9:45 a.m.Italian skier Francesca Marsaglia is set to open the women’s downhill at the world championships at 11 a.m. local time.