Former great Lindsey Vonn has named fellow American Mikaela Shiffrin “the best skier that has ever lived” and expects her to soon better her World Cup race win record. Shiffrin has won 77 World Cup races, just five shy of Vonn’s women’s record 82, and only nine adrift of the overall record 86 wins achieved by former Swedish ace Ingemar Stenmark. And having already won three races this season, Vonn told Thursday’s edition of German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Shiffrin would soon gain possession of the records. “In my view she is the best skier that has ever lived. She will very qu…