Thanksgiving weekend in Olympic sports features the Stifel Copper Cup in Copper Mountain, Colorado, the first of two Alpine skiing World Cup stops in the U.S. this season.

It’s Mikaela Shiffrin’s first time racing in her home state since 2017. Shiffrin’s first recorded International Ski Federation level races were also at Copper Mountain in 2010 at age 15.

Shiffrin is the clear favorite for Sunday’s slalom, having won the first two slaloms this World Cup season by dominating margins of 1.66 and 1.23 seconds over Lara Colturi of Albania. She extended her career records to 103 Alpine World Cup wins and 66 in slalom alone.

Saturday’s giant slalom should be a greater test. Shiffrin was a promising fourth in the season-opening GS on Oct. 25, her best result in the discipline since crashing i

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