Mikaela Shiffrin finished 2.89 seconds off the lead in the opening run of a World Cup giant slalom on Friday, her first race in the discipline in nearly 12 weeks. The American holder of a record 99 World Cup wins hadn’t raced in giant slalom since suffering severe trauma to her oblique muscles and a deep puncture wound during a GS crash in Killington,

A year before the Winter Olympics the U.S. Ski Team just had a performance to remember. The women’s squad won medals in four out of five events at the world championships in Austria and also had two fourth places.

Camille Rast won slalom gold in a Swiss one-two with Wendy Holdener on Saturday as American Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on a record 16th career medal at the Alpine Skiing World Championships. Austria's Katharina Liensberger took the bronze on home snow in the last women's race of the 13-day championships in Saalbach.

Camille Rast won slalom gold in a Swiss one-two with Wendy Holdener on Saturday as American Mikaela Shiffrin missed out on a record 16th career medal at the Alpine Skiing World Championships.

A year before the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Ski Team just had a performance to remember. The women’s squad won medals in four out of five events at the world championships in Austria and also had two fourth places.

Swiss skier Camille Rast won the women's slalom at the Alpine world championships on Saturday. Mikaela Shiffrin finished fifth and missed out on what would have been the American's record-setting 16th career medal from the worlds.

It was only Shiffrin's second full slalom race since she suffered severe trauma and a deep puncture wound in Killington, Vt., 10 weeks ago.

Mikaela Shiffrin failed to qualify for a second run in a giant slalom event for the first time since 2012 while competing at a World Cup race in Sestriere, Italy on Saturday, since she finished outside the top 30 skiers.

Swiss skier Camille Rast built a big lead and Mikaela Shiffrin was looming in third in the opening run of the women’s slalom at the Alpine world championships on Saturday. Rast finished 0.58 seconds ahead of Katharina Liensberger of Austria,

And extending her perfect run of six medals in six career slalom races at the world championships. Mikaela Shiffrin’s array of international fans who gathered in the Austrian Alps may have entertained the thought of witnessing those achievements when the American stood third after the opening run Saturday,

Shiffrin became the first Alpine skier to hit 100 career World Cup wins, topping the podium in a slalom race Sunday in Italy.