SKIING Mikaela Shiffrin appears unstoppable.The 23-year-old American won a giant slalom at Courchevel, France, on Friday for her 49th career World Cup victory as she continued her march to a third straight season-long overall title. It was a fourth straight win for Shiffrin who sat out the races in Val Gardena to rest up for a big block of technical events – her specialty. Shiffrin, the reigning Olympic GS champion from Colorado, has won six out of her 10 races this season to soar ahead in the standings as she looks to emulate compatriot Lindsey Vonn’s feat of winning three successive overall World Cup titles. Under heavy snow on Friday, Shiffrin had a fantastic second run to finish in a combined time of 1 minute, 49.81 seconds and beat first-run leader Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany by 0.14 seconds. SOCCER WORLD CUP: More than 3.5 billion people viewed some of the 2018 World Cup action, with 1.12 billion watching at least one minute of France beating Croatia 4-2 in the final, according to FIFA. A FIFA-commissioned review of World Cup viewing published Friday said the television audience for the final was 516.6 million by the traditional measure of “global average in-home…