The final weekend of the World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo is coming up.
We follow the women's slalom on Saturday and the men's slalom on Sunday in the live ticker.
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On Saturday and Sunday, the slalom will again be about medals.
The women make the start, before the men follow exactly 24 hours later.
Will Mikaela Shiffrin succeed in another coup after the drama defeat in the giant slalom on Saturday (10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.)?
On Thursday she just had to admit defeat to Lara Gut-Behrami - the Swiss woman had crowned herself with a margin of two hundredths of a second.
Shiffrin could still be the queen of the World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
After bronze in the Super-G, gold in the combination and silver in the giant slalom, the American is now fighting for the slalom title.
Since 2013, she has taken first place in her favorite discipline four times in a row.
Katharina Liensberger (Austria) seems to be the toughest competitor: She took third place in the giant slalom, just 0.09 seconds behind Gut-Behrami.
Ski World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo: Slalom women and men in the live ticker
And with the gentlemen on Sunday?
Of course, all German fingers crossed for Linus Straßer!
He has been able to use the past two weeks, says Straßer, quite well.
Finally no more racing after a kind of full sprint through January, but training, most recently in Toblach a good half hour away from Cortina d'Ampezzo.
"It was," he reports, "a very cool and calm preparation."
For the 27-year-old from Munich, “calm” was the most important thing: he had to “reflect” and “focus on the important things”, he emphasized, because before the World Cup, Straßer had slipped into a downturn after a furious start to the year .
His victory in Zagreb and a second place in Adelboden raised expectations.
Felix Neureuther called Straßer an "absolute favorite" for a World Cup medal.
Straßer sees “that is positive, that is a sign that there is something in there”, that he can really achieve this goal.
But he emphasizes: “There are other favorites.” We're excited to see what's in there on Sunday!
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