Shiffrin's plan helps rivals and Odermatt is men's favorite in new Alpine skiing season
Whether Mikaela Shiffrin can win Alpine skiing’s World Cup overall title again is less rhetorical in the upcoming season than it has been for many years. The Olympic slalom champion ventures into what she calls her “exploration season.” Shiffrin is reducing the number of starts in her strongest discipline to put more focus on giant slalom and super-G. Her changed approach is one of the main talking points ahead of ski racing’s 2026-27 campaign.
It starts in Austria this weekend with a pair of giant slaloms. Swiss standout Marco Odermatt starts the chase for his sixth straight men's overall title.
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