US Skier Shiffrin Plans More Speed Races in New Season

US Skier Shiffrin Plans More Speed Races in New Season
Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States in action during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Women's Giant Slalom in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, on March 21, 2021. Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images
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Mikaela Shiffrin is planning a return to speed racing in the alpine skiing World Cup season, after reducing her schedule almost exclusively to slalom and giant slalom last year.

The American two-time Olympic champion said on Thursday she was eyeing a start at the first speed races of the season: Two downhills and a super-G in Lake Louise, Alberta, in early December.