Shiffrin remains tied for record
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record 83rd World Cup victory will move on to the next stop.
Shiffrin finished seventh in a super-giant slalom in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, 62-hundredths of a second behind race winner Ragnhild Mowinckel, to mark the third consecutive event over the weekend in which she missed out on the podium.
Her next chances to break a tie with former teammate Lindsey Vonn for the women’s record will come in two giant slaloms at the Kronplatz resort in San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Daniel Yule of Switzerland won a World Cup men’s slalom at Kitzbuehel, Austria, for a second time.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander banked in an eight-foot jumper with 9.2 seconds left and scored 34 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder ended host Denver’s ninegame winning streak by beating the Nuggets 101-99.
Denver center Nikola Jokic missed a second straight game because of left hamstring tightness. Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. sat out because of personal reasons. Porter’s younger brother, Coban, a sophomore
Gio Reyna scored the winning goal in his first game since the World Cup and signaled he is blocking out the controversy surrounding him and the U.S. national soccer team. Reyna scored in the 78th minute as host Borussia Dortmund beat Augsburg 4-3 in the Bundesliga.
The lack of playing time, and later critical comments by U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter about an unnamed player subsequently identified as Reyna, led Reyna’s parents, both former U.S. players, to contact the U.S. Soccer Federation about a 1991 domestic-violence incident involving Berhalter.
The USSF appointed an interim coach while a law firm investigates Berhalter, who publicly acknowledged having kicked the woman who would later become his wife.
Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score in his Saudi Pro League debut for Al Nassr, but his presence electrified fans at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh as the team beat Ettifaq 1-0 to retake first place . ... Erling Haaland scored a hat trick in Manchester City’s 3-0 home win over Wolverhampton, but first-place Arsenal responded by beating visiting Manchester United 3-2 in the English Premier League.
Frenchman Sebastien Ogier won the season-opening Monte Carlo rally for a record ninth time.