Make it 49 World Cup wins for Mikaela Shiffrin. She goes for No. 50 on Saturday.
The 23-year-old won her fourth straight World Cup start, capturing a giant slalom in snowy Courchevel, France, on Friday.
Shiffrin made up a .08 deficit from the first run to prevail by .14 over German Viktoria Rebensburg. Full results are here.
She’s the youngest skier to reach 49 World Cup wins and will be the youngest to 50 by winning any of the upcoming technical races ahead of the world championships in February.
She has won six of her 10 starts this season and in every discipline save downhill and super combined (the latter, thought to be fazing out of the Alpine program, will only be contested once this season on Feb.