The new, $12 million, six-person chairlift isn’t slated to debut until December, while the race typically happens over Thanksgiving weekend.

The U.S. will be able to claim another alpine racing World Cup event on home soil in November 2025, when Copper Mountain will host the Stifel Copper Cup.

The previous race that Shiffrin completed a first run in slalom or giant slalom outside the top-30 times was in October 2012 at the season-opening GS at Soelden, Austria. Then, a 17-year-old Shiffrin wearing bib No. 41 had the 31st fastest time.

In just her second GS race Saturday three months after a serious crash, the American star did not qualify for a second run for the first time since 2012.

Shiffrin finishing 2.50 seconds off the lead set by Alice Robinson with more than 30 faster racers ahead of her who advance to the second run in the afternoon. The American star had finished 25th Friday in her first giant slalom since suffering severe trauma to her oblique muscles and a deep puncture wound during a GS crash in Killington,