On December 1, Camille Rast won for the first time in her World Cup career in an open Killington slalom, with Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova absent due to injury. With three podiums in the last three races, the Swiss will again be one of the favorites for the Semmering slalom this Sunday.
In the general classification of the World Cup, Rast occupies first place with 287 points, followed by the Austrian Cornelia Hütter with 250 points. The American Mikaela Shiffrin is only 5 points from second place and occupies the third step of this provisional podium.
The latter, who was injured in a fall during the Killington giant on November 30, when she was very close to her 100th World Cup victory, however, affirmed on December 17 that she was not sure to be able to return to competition this winter. “I think that if everything had gone perfectly and the hematoma had been able to be drained correctly, we were almost sure that we would be able to resume the season,” she told the specialist media Ski Racing. It will all depend on how I heal over the coming weeks and months. »
The first slalom round can be followed live this Sunday, December 29 on Eurosport 1 from 10:15 a.m. The second round can also be followed on Eurosport 1 from 1:30 p.m.
