{"id":68998,"date":"2026-03-15T08:55:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/mikaela-shiffrin-closes-on-overall-world-cup-title-after-record-equaling-slalom-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:55:44","slug":"mikaela-shiffrin-closes-on-overall-world-cup-title-after-record-equaling-slalom-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/mikaela-shiffrin-closes-on-overall-world-cup-title-after-record-equaling-slalom-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin closes on overall World Cup title after record-equaling slalom win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American wins eighth slalom race of World Cup season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Shiffrin has 140-point lead over Germany\u2019s Emma Aicher<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin won her record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom of the season on Sunday but her main rival in the overall standings was second to maintain pressure on the American star.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin dominated the last race before the World Cup finals in Norway to beat Germany\u2019s Emma Aicher by 0.94 seconds, with Switzerland\u2019s Wendy Holdener a second off the pace in third.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/15\/mikaela-shiffrin-closes-on-overall-world-cup-title-after-record-slalom-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American wins eighth slalom race of World Cup season Shiffrin has 140-point lead over Germany\u2019s Emma Aicher Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin won her record-equaling eighth World Cup slalom of the season on Sunday but her main rival in the overall standings was second to maintain pressure on the American star. Shiffrin dominated the last race &#8230; <a title=\"Mikaela Shiffrin closes on overall World Cup title after record-equaling slalom win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/mikaela-shiffrin-closes-on-overall-world-cup-title-after-record-equaling-slalom-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mikaela Shiffrin closes on overall World Cup title after record-equaling slalom win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}