for 23 years, Mikaela Shiffrin achieved more than any other skier in front of her at this age, and is still, often enough, just a young woman. And the American was happy after the age of 50. World Cup victory of her career on Saturday, set a record in the Slalom and the fifth victory in the series, especially on: A little bit of time with her boyfriend shortly before Christmas.

“I want to Faivre see Math, that works out hopefully tomorrow and maybe we can ski together a bit,” she said, still out of breath after the Slalom in Courchevel on the hoped-for time with the French ski racer Mathieu.

With the 35. World Cup victory in a Slalom they set the record of Marlies Schild from Austria. With 50 Victories in the world Cup is now on a par with the legendary Alberto Tomba, have passed since their first success in just six years. For comparison: Lindsey Vonn, which currently stands at 82 Wins, and this Winter is still the record of Ingemar Stenmark with 86 of Be to needed for your first 50 world Cup victories, more than seven years – and was at number 50 already 27 years old.

Shiffrin healthy and have a long enough active to blow you all the existing records of their sports. Now she has two Gold medals at the Olympics, is three-time world champion and win more than every third world Cup race in which you compete. At 49,29% of their races, she ends up at least on the podium, in consequence of you has won the overall world Cup in the past two season and in the WM-Winter again with 889 points in your account – makes 551 points ahead of chaser Petra Vlhova from Slovakia, who came in fourth in the Slalom in second place. Third Olympic gold medallist Frida Hansdotter from Sweden was. The only German in the final, Christina Geiger, finished the last women’s world Cup before Christmas rank 21.