Shiffrin takes on slalom Tuesday night

At every step of her development en route to becoming the world’s dominant female alpine racer, Mikaela Shiffrin has come through when the pressure is the toughest and the spotlight is brightest. Will she do it again in the Olympic slalom Tuesday night?

This season, she won five consecutive slalom races after finishing second in the season-opening slalom.

Then, in her final slalom before the Olympics, she failed to finish the second run, but she was leading at the time. Thirty of her 41 World Cup victories have come in slalom, and the EagleVail star will clearly be the favorite Tuesday night to repeat as Olympic champion. The slalom starts at 6:15 p.m. Denver time.

Other women to watch:

Petra Vlhova, Slovakia: She beat Shiffrin in the season-opening slalom in November by 0.1 of a second and is second in the slalom standings. Vlhova won the most recent slalom Jan. 28 when Shiffrin did not finish.

Frida Hansdotter, Sweden: Hansdotter has been a top-four slalom skier since 2013, and she won the World Cup slalom title in 2016. That’s the only year since 2013 that Shiffrin didn’t win it, although there was a reason she didn’t do so: She missed two months of racing that season because of a bruised knee.

Wendy Holdener, Switzerland: Silver medalist at the 2017 world championships, finishing 1.64 seconds behind Shiffrin.

Format: There are two runs (6:15 p.m., 9:45 p.m.) in the slalom, and the favorites will be among the first to race in the first run. Then the top 30 from the first run will start in reverse order in the second run. If Shiffrin posts the fastest first-run time, for example, she will start 30th in the second run.