American skier Shiffrin leads in 1st run of slalom at worlds
MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin took the lead with her first run of the slalom at the world championships Saturday. Shiffrin opened the race in 52.54 seconds. Swiss skier Wendy Holdener trailed by 0.19 seconds in second place. Laurence St-Germain of Canada was 0.61 behind in third. The rest of the field had more than nine-tenths of a second to make up in the second leg. Shiffrin is after her third medal at these worlds after winning gold in the giant slalom two days ago and silver in the super-G last week.