Question: Phillip Ferdinand "Phil" Mahre had a  total of 27 World Cup race wins is fourth among Americans, only behind Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller, and Mikaela Shiffrin, an American World Cup alpine ski racer who specialized  in what?
Context: Benjamin Raich (born 28 February 1978 in Arzl im Pitztal, Tyrol) is a retired champion World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Austria.  With 14 medals won at Winter Olympics and World Championships, 36 World Cup race victories (in all disciplines except downhill), one first place and five second places in the World Cup overall ranking, three victories of the slalom World Cup, three victories of the combined World Cup, two victories of the giant slalom World Cup and the highest score of career World Cup points (ahead of Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt), he is considered among the best alpine racers in World Cup history. Pamela Behr (born September 21, 1956 in Hindelang, then West Germany) is a retired German alpine ski racer.  She is the second youngest person ever to win an FIS Alpine Ski World Cup race, winning a slalom in Val d'Isere, France, in December 1972 at the age of 16 years, 79 days.  It would be the only World Cup race win of her ten-year career.  She won the silver medal in slalom at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Steven Irving "Steve" Mahre (born May 10, 1957, in Yakima, Washington) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and younger twin brother (by four minutes) of ski racer Phil Mahre. Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 27 March 1953) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria.  Born in Kleinarl, Salzburg, she was the most successful female alpine ski racer during the 1970s, with six overall titles, including five consecutive.  Moser-Pröll celebrated her biggest successes in downhill, giant slalom and combined races.  In 1980, her last year as a competitor, she secured her third Olympic medal (and first gold) at Lake Placid and won five World Cup races.  Her younger sister Cornelia Pröll is also a former Olympic alpine skier. Tamara McKinney (born October 16, 1962) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.  She won four World Cup season titles, most notably the 1983 overall, the only American woman to hold that title for a quarter century, until Lindsey Vonn in 2008.  McKinney's other three season titles were in giant slalom (1981, 1983) and slalom (1984).  She was a world champion in the combined event in 1989, her final year of competition.  Her half-brother Steve McKinney was a record holding speed skier. Mikaela Pauline Shiffrin (born March 13, 1995) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer with the United States Ski Team, specializing in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.  She is the reigning Overall World Cup champion and the reigning Olympic and world champion in slalom and a four-time winner of the World Cup discipline title in that event Shiffrin is the youngest slalom champion in Olympic alpine skiing history, at 18 years and 345 days. Lindsey Caroline Vonn ( ) (née Kildow ; born October 18, 1984) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team.  She has won four World Cup overall championships—one of only two female skiers to do so, along with Annemarie Moser-Pröll—with three consecutive titles in 2008, 2009, and 2010, plus another in 2012.  Vonn won the gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first ever in the event for an American woman.  She has also won a record eight World Cup season titles in the downhill discipline (2008–2013, 2015, 2016), five titles in super-G (2009–2012, 2015), and three consecutive titles in the combined (2010–2012). Hermann Maier (born 7 December 1972) is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.  Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (both in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999: 2, and 2005).  His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank second on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories.  s of 2013 , he holds the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, from 2000–2013, he also held the title of most points in one season by any alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season. Phillip Ferdinand "Phil" Mahre (born May 10, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer, widely regarded as one of the greatest American skiers of all time.  His total of 27 World Cup race wins is fourth among Americans, only behind Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller, and Mikaela Shiffrin. Picabo Street ( ; born April 3, 1971) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.  She won the super G at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the downhill at the 1996 World Championships, along with three other Olympic and World Championship medals.  Street also won World Cup downhill season titles in 1995 and 1996, the first American woman to do so, along with nine World Cup downhill race wins.  Street was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 2004.
Answer: slalom and giant slalom