world championship

It's the first three-peat in World Championship slalom since Christl Cranz did it in 1937-39.

By Tom Kelly

The 19-year-old German ski racer gave a tug on the laces of her leather boots, clicking them into the cables on her long wooden skis. Behind her was the towering Piz Nair, the iconic peak on Corviglia at St. Moritz, high in the Swiss Alps.