Mikaela Shiffrin is off to the hottest start to a calendar year of any female skier in 29 years, despite a nasty illness.
The youngest Olympic slalom champion won her third straight race to start 2019 — and sixth in her last seven World Cups — taking a giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Saturday.
Shiffrin vomited several times leading into the race, NBC Sports’ Steve Porino said.
“Actually, a lot of the girls have been or are sick,” Shiffrin said after the first of two runs Saturday morning, according to The Associated Press.