Mikaela Shiffrin edged by rival Petra Vlhova in first slalom of Olympic season
by Guardian sport and agencies from on (#5S52T)
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Practice made perfect for Petra Vlhova on Saturday, beating Mikaela Shiffrin in the first World Cup slalom of the season.
The Slovakian overall champion had been training for three weeks in Finnish Lapland and skipped a parallel event in Austria last week to get ready for the first race in her strongest discipline.
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