Mikaela Shiffrinová: Neither Petra Vlhová nor I should have finished the 2nd round, but somehow we succeeded – ŠPORT.sk

However, Petra Vlhová won the first round with a 20-hundred-head lead over Shiffrinová. It was so clear again that if nothing out of the ordinary happened, the two rivals would share the overall triumph. Shiffrin went first, giving a famous performance full of energy. Despite making a slight mistake, she reached the finish line with the best time of the 2nd round.

“During my career, I’ve found that you really want to win, maybe more than everyone else. But just wanting is not enough, it will not move you in front of others. I had to concentrate every minute to give the best performance. I couldn’t just think I wanted to win, ” Shiffrin described her feelings.

Petra Vlhová started well, but then came a huge mistake that cost her a chance to win. Despite her, she managed to take 2nd place, losing 75 hundredths of a second to her rival.

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Shiffrin’s 1st place was helped by the huge intensity and speed in the 2nd round. That is, something that has adorned her for years. How was the return to do it again? “When someone sends you a quick service in tennis, you don’t see where they’re going. You just switch to autopilot and go where you know the ball will go. You need years of training for that.

I succeeded thanks to the fact that I put a crazy intensity into the ride. I don’t know exactly how to explain it. I had a lot of energy at the start, I said I would explode if I didn’t go now. And I put all my energy into the ride, ” the winning skier approached.

Huge desire robbed her of almost everything. She made a mistake, but it was not as big as in the case of Vlhova. “I almost jumped off the track, but some energy threw me back because I was so focused. It’s strange. Apparently I didn’t even have to finish the race and Petra probably didn’t have to finish them either, but somehow we did it. “

Energy and ferocity is something that was absent from her performances last season. “I always had that energy in me. But getting her out of me costs me a lot more strength than in the past. However, when I compare this season with the last one, I now have energy for the 2nd round, I didn’t have it then. I feel more like myself. I want to build on that and get to the point where I was in the past. ”

The World Cup has returned to Killington in the northeastern United States after a one-year hiatus caused by a coronavirus pandemic. “I missed it a year ago. Especially after everything that happened. It’s a home race for me, even though I’m not completely at home here, ” said a native of Colorado.

Shiffrin admitted that home racing is more difficult for her because she feels a lot of pressure. “I felt a lot more pressure than last time. I could feel him when I looked at the audience. You could see it on Saturday. I didn’t have a good ride, but it was like I was winning.

Everyone was extremely excited to be here. The spectators were really amazing, they love skiing. I missed it. I don’t want another season without a race in the USA, “ she commented on Saturday’s huge slalom, which they canceled due to weather problems. Shiffrin was last in it after the departure of nine competitors.

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