Shiffrin ties Stenmark for career slalom wins
SOLDEU, Andorra — Mikaela Shiffrin climbed higher on the World Cup alltime lists by overtaking Wendy Holdener in the slalom on Saturday.
Shiffrin’s 40th career victory in World Cup slaloms tied Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s record for wins in the discipline.
Frida Hansdotter, the 2018 Olympic slalom champ, was fifth in her final World Cup race before retiring. More skiing: Alexis Pinturault became the most prolific French skier in World Cup history, winning a giant slalom for his 23rd victory. Marcel hirscher placed sixth to secure a record eighth straight overall World Cup title.
tennis: Dominic thiem outlasted Milos raonic 7-6
(3), 6-7 (3), 6-4 to reach the BNP Paribas Open final against roger Federer. rafael Nadal withdrew with a knee injury. Nadal said he won’t play again until the Monte Carlo Masters on clay in mid-april. Federer seeks a record sixth title at Indian Wells. Thiem and Federer have split their four previous meetings. Sunday’s women’s final pits 18-year-old Canadian wild-card Bianca Andreescu against two-time major champion Angelique Kerber.
Basketball: The U.S.’S quest for an unprecedented third straight FIBA World Cup title will begin with games against Turkey, the Czech Republic and Japan this summer. The U.S. is in Group E for the tournament that begins in China on Aug. 31. The U.S. is the world’s No. 1-ranked team by FIBA. The top eight finishers in the FIBA World Cup earn a berth in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Soccer: FIFA agreed to make public its vote on the host for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, to be announced next March. Previously, the decisions were taken in private by the scandal-discredited FIFA executive committee.
olympics: A Russian dopingtest company denies accusations its staff gave athletes advance warning of what are meant to be surprise drug tests. The Russian anti-doping agency has alleged that Anti-doping Initiative’s staff tipped off athletes in the sport of powerlifting about upcoming tests and asked them for money.
— Wire reports