Mikaela Shiffrin will not appear at the Lienz race for covid – TVNOVINY.sk

Alpine Skiing World Cup leader Mikaela
Shiffrin will not start at the race in Lienz, Austria. As she wrote on the social network, she was stopped by a covid since participating in the next round of the World Cup.

“I have to tell you that I had a positive covid test, but I’m fine. I’m going to quarantine, I’ll miss Lienz. I wish my fellow competitors good luck, I will support them from a distance. Thank you for your support, see you in the new year, “the American wrote.

Alpine Skiers’ World Cup race in Austria
Lienzi
will take place according to plan. They should not be endangered even by the expected rain on the second day of the event. IN
Lienzi

there is a huge slalom on the program on Tuesday and a slalom on Wednesday, there will also be a Slovak defender of the overall championship, Petra Vlhová, on the track.

Shiffrin has won 72 World Championship races during her career, and this season she has managed to triumph three times so far in the prestigious series. In October, she won the giant slalom in Sölden, Austria, and at the end of November she won the slalom in Killington, USA. Before the Christmas holidays, she won a huge slalom in Courchevel, France. In the sequential order of FIG. slalom is first, in slalom second behind Vlhová.

Gasienico will not race either

Polish skier Maryna Gasienicová-Danielová also had a positive coronavirus test. He will miss Tuesday’s huge World Cup slalom in Lienz, Austria.

The Polish man is doing well in the “giant” this season, finishing sixth twice in 24 hours before Christmas in Courchevel, France, and achieving the best results in this discipline in the prestigious series. “I had a positive coronavirus test and I am in domestic quarantine. I am sad that I will not be able to compete in Lienz, but I feel good,” the Italian portal neveitalia.it quoted Gasienico-Daniel as saying.