Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova has dominated the first women’s World Cup slalom of the season by clearly winning both runs.

Canadian skier Laurence St-Germain has won gold in the women’s slalom at the world championships and Mikaela Shiffrin took silver.

Lindsey Jacobellis is finally an Olympic gold medalist.

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.

Did her dominance in the biggest slalom race of the season mark a change of the guard? AdShe had never previously led a top-level slalom race after the first run. Then Michelle Gisin, who ended the four-year-long winning streak of Shiffrin and Vlhova in World Cup slaloms in December. The dispute even led to Liensberger having to sit out the World Cup season-opener in October 2019, but she re-signed with Rossignol the following month. In 11 World Cup slaloms since, Liensberger was never worse than seventh and racked up six podiums, including in all five races this season.