Norway’s Kristoffersen, Braathen duel for WCup slalom title

MERIBEL, Switzerland (AP) — A Norwegian duel performed out Sunday for the season-ending males’s World Cup ski race and the seasonlong slalom title.

Lucas Braathen led the primary run by simply 0.05 seconds from Henrik Kristoffersen, who tops the slalom standings forward of his 21-year-old teammate.

One other Norwegian, Atle Lie McGrath, was third-fastest with 0.21 to make up within the second run within the afternoon that can shut the World Cup Finals assembly. Olympic champion Clément Noël was fourth, 0.45 again.

Kristoffersen started the race with a 48-point lead within the self-discipline standings and can safe the crystal trophy with a top-three end within the race.

An unpredictable season in males’s slalom has seen eight completely different winners of the 9 World Cup races with solely Kristoffersen successful twice.

No racer has but had greater than three podium finishes and none has greater than 5 top-10 finishes.

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Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen speeds down the course throughout an alpine ski, males’s World Cup slalom, in Meribel, France, Sunday, March 20, 2022.