Shiffrin rules out racing downhill; super-G next at worlds

MERIBEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin has ruled out skiing the downhill at the world championships and is keeping to her pre-announced schedule of four events. Shiffrin inspected the course before the opening downhill training session just to take a look at the layout ahead of Wednesday’s super-G race. But she did not enter the training session. Then she performed a few runs of super-G training. Shiffrin straddled a gate in the slalom leg and was disqualified from the combined race Monday that opened the championships. Shiffrin also plans to ski her preferred events of giant slalom and slalom at the end of next week. World Cup downhill leader Sofia Goggia led the training session.