Shiffrin celebrates return to World Cup with 96th career win

All Mikaela Shiffrin really wanted in her first race after returning from a six-week injury was “good skiing.”

But what she got was an “insane comeback” even by the American star's standards.

Shiffrin made her triumphant return to the World Cup on Sunday, winning the penultimate slalom of the season for her 96th career win and her eighth season title, matching her record in the same event.

Competing in his first race since injuring his left knee in a downhill accident in Italy, the two-time Olympic champion beat Croatian prodigy Zrinka Ljutic by a huge margin of 1.24 seconds, setting the fastest time in both runs. , defeated 3rd place Michel Gysin (Switzerland) by 0 seconds. 1.34.

“I feel like I'm in a dream right now,” said Shiffrin, who won her sixth slalom championship this season and 59th overall. “There's so much uncertainty going into this race. My biggest goal…is to ski well in the final race of the season and have the right pace and the right mentality to close out the season. Now that we've proven that we're good at it, we'll start in a better position next year.”

golf

PGA: At the Arnold Palmer Invitational held in Orlando, Florida, Scottie Scheffler turns up the heat with his putter, posting a bogey-free 6-under 66 and winning Bay Hill by five strokes, the largest margin since Tiger Woods in 2012. did.

Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, earned $4 million for his seventh career win. He finished with 15 under par and 273.

Windham Clark shot a bar 70 on the final hole and won $2.2 million as the runner-up.

• Bryce Garnett makes a 15-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole to win the Puerto Rico Open in his first tournament of the year, advance to next week's The Players Championship and the next three years on the PGA Tour. achieved the status of

Garnett shot a 3-under 69 and Eric Burns shot a 68 to finish at 19-under 269.

LPGA: Bailey Tardy posted a 7-under 65 in the final round of the Blue Bay Tournament on southern China's Hainan Island, winning by four strokes over Sarah Schmelzel and earning her first victory on the LPGA Tour.

Tardy posted a total of 19-under 269.

Schmelzel closed with a 69, and Ayaka Furue finished with a 65 for third place, five strokes behind.

Liv: Abraham Ansah won the LIV Golf Tournament in Hong Kong, defeating Cameron Smith and Paul Casey in a play-off.

Ansel's five-stroke lead at the start of the final round gradually disappeared, and the Mexican struggled with a 2-over 72.

Casey shot a 64 and Smith had a 66 to clinch a playoff berth.

European tour: Mateo Manassero wins the Johnson Workwear Open in Edenvale, South Africa after a storm delay with a 6-under 66 for a three-stroke victory and his first European Tour win in 11 years. fulfilled.

The 30-year-old Italian, once considered a genius in European golf, made four birdies in the final four holes to finish on 26 under par and claim his fifth career win.

Thriston Lawrence (63), Sean Norris (68) and Jordan Smith (68) tied for second.

soccer

England: Before Liverpool's German manager resigned at the end of the season, he scored a last-minute penalty in the final Premier League match between Jurgen Klopp and Josep Guardiola after fighting back from a 1-1 draw with Manchester City. Rejected.

Alexis Mac Allister scored the spot-kick in the 50th minute, canceling out John Stones' first-half goal at Anfield.

Klopp believed his team should have been awarded an extra penalty after Jeremy Doku's high challenge on Mac Allister in second-half stoppage time, but VAR rejected his appeal.

As a result, Liverpool are now in second place behind Arsenal on goal difference. City are in third place, one point behind Arsenal and Liverpool.

• Visiting Tottenham boosted their chances of Champions League qualification with a 4-0 win over 10-man Aston Villa.

Fifth-placed Spurs are now within two points of fourth-placed Villa with one game remaining.

car racing

Indy car: Team Penske dominated the season opener with Josef Newgarden winning from pole position on the streets of downtown St. Petersburg, silencing recent criticism aimed at series leadership.

Arrow McLaren Racing's Pato O'Ward broke Penske's rout with a second-place finish, but Penske drivers Scott McLaughlin and Will Power finished third and fourth. The Penske Trio comes two days after team owner Michael Andretti called on Roger Penske to sell the IndyCar Series if he was not willing to increase investment in promotion and marketing. He finished ahead of all other drivers.

basketball

NBA: The NBA fined Minnesota center Rudy Gobert $100,000. Two days later, he suggested that referee Scott Foster was not judging the match fairly, and further suggested that gambling was having a negative impact on the outcome.

The fine is the maximum the NBA can award under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement signed last year.

On Friday night, in the Timberwolves' 113-104 overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Gobert was called for a technical foul near the end of regulation, but he did not rub his fingers together several times, the so-called money sign, on Foster. It was aimed at

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