Record chase slowed: Ski star Shiffin tested positive for Corona
Created: 12/27/2021, 2:14 PM
The American Mikaela Shiffrin has to pause because of a positive corona test.
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Bad news for ski ace Mikaela Shiffrin.
The American has to pass the races in Lienz because of a positive corona test.
Lienz - Now Mikaela Shiffrin has also got it.
The exceptional American ski racer has tested positive for the corona virus.
She is doing well, said the 26-year-old on Monday via social networks.
The winter athlete is in domestic isolation and will miss the upcoming World Cup races in Lienz, Austria.
She wishes her teammates the best of luck for the giant slalom on Tuesday and the slalom on Wednesday (10 a.m. and 1 p.m.).
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Shiffrin is not the first athlete to have to do without World Cup events this winter because of a positive corona test.
Most recently, the world champions Lara Gut-Behrami (Switzerland) and Katharina Liensberger (Austria) as well as New Zealander Alice Robinson had to sit out - and thus possibly lost important points in the overall standings.
Shiffrin is now slowed down on her record hunt due to the positive result.
She recently celebrated her 72nd World Cup victory in Courchevel, France.
Only ten successes are missing until her compatriot Lindsey Vonn, who resigned in 2019 and leads the all-time best list of alpine women with 82 victories.
There are still 14 to the Swede Ingemar Stenmark, who is enthroned above all.
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In the overall World Cup, which she has already won three times, Shiffrin is currently again at the top with 750 points.
In Lienz, where she celebrated a double victory two years ago, she would have been one of the big favorites again.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing in February, she wants to compete for gold in several disciplines.
Shiffrin is a proponent of the corona vaccination.
In April, she posted a video of how she received the injection, describing it as "a step towards normalcy."
Now she will not race for the remaining days of this year.
(dpa)