Federica Brignone has achieved an impossible feat. Competing in the season opener Giant Slalom in Sölden, the Italian managed to get the better of Mikaela Shiffrin. While this was a special feat ...

Italian Federica Brignone became the oldest woman to win an Alpine skiing World Cup race, overtaking first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin in the season opener Saturday. Brignone, 34, prevailed by 17 ...

ARE, Sweden — Federica Brignone is still a relentless winner in giant slalom races and Mikaela Shiffrin is still searching for form after her serious crash in November.

Mikaela Shiffrin skis the second run of the Women’s Giant Slalom during the Audi FIS Ski World Cup – Killington Cup on Nov. 24, 2018 in Killington, Vermont.

Mikaela Shiffrin finished in third place. Brignone covered the two legs on foggy Mont Tremblant — which hadn’t hosted a World Cup ski race in 40 years — in a combined time of 2 minute, 14.95 ...

Brignone, 30, is the headliner for Saturday’s season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria. Mikaela Shiffrin is absent (tweaked back). She last raced Jan. 26, when she won a super-G and increased ...

Mikaela Shiffrin was three gates from a record-tying seventh world championships gold medal when she lost her balance and straddled a gate, skiing out of the first race of worlds on Monday.. Italian ...

SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is not yet competitive in her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms. Federica Brignone is currently close to unbeatable.

Italy's Federica Brignone laid down the two fastest runs to win gold in the women's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Thursday, as American Mikaela Shiffrin opted out of ...

Brignone also leapfrogged the absent Mikaela Shiffrin into second in the overall standings, 326 points behind Gut-Behrami. Editor's Picks Gut-Behrami wins super-G, pads lead over Shiffrin ...

Federica Brignone is still a relentless winner in giant slalom races and Mikaela Shiffrin is still searching for form after her serious crash in November. Brignone was fastest in both runs of a ...