giant slalom in Meribel, France, on Thursday. Image: Alessandro Trovati/APMERIBEL,
What Olympic Setback – Search (bing.com)
This is why I follow you because I knew you’d be back on top! Congratulations Mikaela!!!
K-U-D-O-S indeed!!! xo
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Instagram10 Years Ago: Mikaela Shiffrin’s First World Cup Win (Åre 2012) – YouTube
On December 20, 2012, a young and rosy cheeked 17 year old Mikaela Shiffrin won
her first world cup race in a slalom in Åre, Sweden. At 17 years, 9 months, and 7 days,
she became the third youngest American to win a world cup race. The only younger ones
are Kiki Cutter (16 years, 7 months, 1 day), and Judy Nagel (17 years, 5 months, 12 days)
Little did anybody, know that someday this young girl would become the greatest skier
in the world.
A season for the ages!!! And a legend in the making!
EXTRAORDINAIRE
Unbelievable.
That is @mikaelashiffrin now has just ONE MORE win
until she ties the overall World Cup win record.
Mikaela is lightning in a woman’s body.
Is she a robot because her runs are flawless
GOAT!
Legend!I wouldn’t be surprised if her new record (which is just a matter of time)
Will be well over
wins eventually.Frustrating this amazing athlete and performance
does not get more news press here in the states.
Stack her up against any GOAT in any other sport!
And she would blow them away! .
About to be the most dominant athlete the sport has ever seen!!
She’s incredible
!!!!!Agreed
her win ratio is the best ever and that’s including Michael and Tiger.
I am glad
I’m watching this history be made right at the very moment!!It begs the question – is Shiffrin the GOAT of all GOATS?
Stolen from Team USA website, lol…. but it is mind-blowing…
Consider this: Shiffrin attained her 85th victory in her 240th career World Cup race,
for a mesmerizing 35.42% winning percentage. Just for fun, she is above and beyond
other more famous sporting legends in this category: Novak Djokovic 32.9% (92 wins),
Serena Williams 30.4% (73), Rafael Nadal 30.3% (92). Also, Roger Federer 28.1% (103),
Tiger Woods 22.1% (82), Lindsey Vonn 20.8% (82), and Jack Nicklaus 12.3% (73).
I can’t even find the words to describe how PRICELESS MIKAELA is.
A Phenomenon with a capital F!!!
Ingemar Stenmark has today made an interview (in Swedish)
with Swedish TV about Mikaela’s success.
He says that Mikaela is a fantastic skier, and that she will likely win over
races in the end, and this might be unbeatable forever, and that she deserves to claim
the record. https://www.svt.se/sport/alpint/ingemar-stenmark-om-mikaela-shiffrins-rekordjakt I’ve been in love with the US Ski Team since the early 80’s!! So many greats over the years, but who could have ever imagined Ingemar Stenmark would be spoken about in the same breath as LINDSEY VONN AND MIKAELA SHIFFRIN!!!!!
So AWESOME!!
Mikaela’s consistency in a sport that has so many variables is utterly amazing.
The World Cup circuit won’t see another phenomenon like Mikaela for a long,
long time if ever. The precision of her skiing doesn’t even look real.
Unbelievable is an understatement!
Truly one of a kind. We love you, Miki!
Such an amazing athlete.
And doing it with the ultimate in grace and charm.
Incredible … running out of superlatives for this amazing athlete.
A privilege to watch…she is so into the zone.
She deserves it.
no one does it better. Passion, talent and hard work gets you to the top.
God, I love this legend so much
I wouldn’t want to be a professional skier right now,
always competing for 2nd place….
If this girl doesn’t impress you, it can’t be done.
You are already a legend and you’re only 27 years old. Incredible
In a field crowded with gifted competitors, she stands peerless at 86!!!
and goes against Stenmark’s
86!!!She’s feelin’ it. About to leave an unbreakable record in the rear-view mirror!
This is what happens when you don’t give a damn about the haters and also trolls who
want you to fail. She is happy, loose and overall, brilliant. It’s just so emotional to watch her now. She’s a true force of nature right now, like avalanches and volcanic eruptions.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen an athlete like her [except maybe Usain in his prime.]
Usain Bolt: Eight-time Olympic champion’s career in 9.58 charts Staggering. Humbling.
You are so amazing, Miki. Absolutely amazing, Mikaela!!!
Glad you’re happy and having fun again!
Your dad is smiling 🙂 watching from above. 🙂
A decade later her 85th win Instagram
Mikaela Shiffrin 83 wins slalom, nears World Cup record | ktvb.com
Mikaela Shiffrin now one win from Ingemar Stenmark record (espn.com)
Shiffrin Wins Slalom, Moves Within 1 Win of World Cup Record (usnews.com)
Mikaela Shiffrin wins 85th World Cup, can tie overall record Sunday (nbcsports.com)
American Mikaela Shiffrin makes history as most successful female World Cup skier
Another race, another win for Mikaela Shiffrin. # Instagram
She could tie Stenmark as early as Sunday.
The American won her 85th World Cup race on Saturday, leaving her just one behind Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark’s all-gender record. Shiffrin’s win Saturday, in a slalom at Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, was her third in as many races and 11th of the season. She had the fastest time in the first run and, with Germany’s Lena Duerr throwing down a challenge just ahead of her, was even better in the second.
Mikaela Shiffrin reacts after winning the women’s World Cup slalom.
“I knew it would take some risk, and there’s a chance I don’t finish at all,”
Shiffrin said. But she did, her combined time a commanding 0.60 seconds ahead of Duerr. Wendy Holdener of Switzerland was third, 1.31 seconds behind Shiffrin. Though Shiffrin can catch Stenmark on Sunday, it will be a month, at the earliest, before she can surpass him. The World Cup circuit takes a break after this weekend for the world championships, which are Feb. 6-19 in France.
It resumes Feb. 23-26 with two downhills and a super-G in Crans Montana, Switzerland. Shiffrin’s best chance to surpass Stenmark is likely to come in his home country, with giant slalom and slalom races in Are on March 10 and 11. Of her World Cup wins, 52 are in slalom and 19 are in giant slalom. “I’m not worried about it,” Shiffrin said when asked how important it is to get No. 86. “I thought today, if I don’t finish the race I don’t care.
As long as I ski the best turns, I can do.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Mikaela Shiffrin within one of all-gender records with World Cup win, @MikaelaShiffrin breaks the record for the most individual world championship medals (13) in the modern era. Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in giant slalom for seventh world title (msn.com)
Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Seventh Career Alpine World Championships Gold – YouTube
Mikaela Shiffrin has won her seventh career Alpine world championships gold medal after winning the giant slalom in Méribel, France, in the Alps. The American has now taken her overall tally to 13 medals from 16 career world championship races, making her the most successful skier in the modern era.
What a little ripper she is!!! A talent so unbelievable, her training ethics so unmatchable,
her achievements so undeniably snow goddess. Bravo Mikaela!!!!!
Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in women’s giant slalom at the world championships Thursday, a day after her unexpected split with longtime coach Mike Day.
Mikaela Shiffrin talks costly missed gate, bouncing back, and Roger Federer | NBC Sports
Shiffrin overcame a mistake near the end of the race to hold on to her first-run lead. When she saw her time, she covered her mouth with her hands, then collapsed to the snow in joy, relief and celebration. She stayed there for a few moments, breathing heavily from the exertion of her run.
Italian skier Federica Brignone, who was 0.12 seconds behind to take the silver, and Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway, who trailed by 0.22 for the bronze, came over to congratulate her. “I feel really emotional right now,“ Shiffrin said. ”It’s unbelievable,
it’s 12 hundredths, it’s really a small margin. On the bottom I just went blind and was like, turn on the gas just ski faster. I don’t know how, just do it. “
Related video: Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in giant slalom for her 7th career Alpine world title (cbc.ca)
World championship races don’t count toward the World Cup circuit, where Shiffrin has racked up 11 wins this season to take her overall tally to 85. She broke former teammate Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82 last month and has moved within one of the overall mark set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark in the 1970s and 80s.
Shiffrin’s victory at the world championships came a day after Day, her head coach since 2016, left the team during the middle of the event. Shiffrin had informed him that she planned to take a new direction with her staff at the end of the season.
French skier Tessa Worley, who was second after the
opening run, slid on her inside ski and fell in her second run.
“I felt my skiing was not relaxed enough,“ Worley said.
“I didn’t want to go for a medal, I wanted to go for the win.“
Worley, a two-time giant slalom world champion,
had the added pressure of skiing in front of her home fans.
“This is not an easy position, with the home crowd favorite… I mean, thank you for cheering for me anyway,” said Shiffrin, who was the 2018 Olympic champion and won five of the last six giant slaloms on the World Cup circuit.
Brignone, who won gold in the combined event that opened the world’s last week, recovered from illness over the past few days. “I’m so proud, so happy, I managed to do it,” the Italian said. ”Today I was completely free, thinking about my skiing, I was able to put everything away.”
Competing in her first major event since not winning a medal in six starts at last year’s Beijing Olympics, it was Shiffrin’s first gold medal at the world championships after winning the combined title in 2021 in Italy. It raises her tally to seven world titles and 13 medals overall from 16 career world championship races. She is second behind German skier Christl Cranz on the all-time list for the most individual medals won by a woman at the worlds. Cranz won 15 medals in the 1930s.
The victory makes Shiffrin only the fourth female skier to win world titles in four
different disciplines, after previously winning four golds in slalom, one in super-G
and the combined gold two years ago.
N0te: This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Mikaela Shiffrin claims HISTORIC gold with World Championship giant slalom title | NBC Sports – Bing video
Mikaela Shiffrin Breaks Record for Most Individual World Championship Medals‘.
France — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom at the world championships on Thursday, a day after her unexpected split with longtime coach Mike Day. Shiffrin overcame a mistake near the end of the race to hold on to her first-run lead.
When she saw her time, she covered her mouth with her hands, then collapsed to the snow in joy, relief and celebration. She stayed there for a few moments, breathing heavily from the exertion of her run. Italian skier Federica Brignone, who was 0.12 seconds behind to take the silver, and Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway, who trailed by 0.22 for the bronze, came over to congratulate her.
Mikaela Shiffrin splits with longtime coach Mike Day during world championships – Search (bing.com)
“It’s definitely been some high levels of stress these days,” Shiffrin said. “It was very, very difficult today to keep the focus and keep the intensity on the right level. “Shiffrin’s victory came two days after Day, her head coach since 2016, with Mikaela for 65 of her 85 wins left her team during the middle of the championships.
Shiffrin informed him that she planned to take a new direction with
her staff at the end of the season and Day decided to leave immediately.
“One thing I really want to say is just thank you to Mike for seven years of — I can’t even say helping me — he’s been such an integral part of my team and being there to support me through some of the most incredible moments in my career and some of the most challenging moments of my career and also my life,” Shiffrin said.
“So it’s it’s just a little bit sad how it came down,” Shiffrin said, adding that she was hoping to give Day “the time and the notice” to figure out his own plans before the end of the season but that his sudden departure was “difficult for all of us to imagine” after “being such a tight group, really a family.”World championship races don’t count toward the World Cup circuit, where Shiffrin has racked up 11 wins this season to take her overall tally to 85. She broke former teammate Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82 last month and has moved within one of the overall mark set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark in the 1970s and 80s.
French skier Tessa Worley, who was second after the opening run, slid on her inside ski and fell in her second run.”I felt my skiing was not relaxed enough,” Worley said. “I didn’t want to go for a medal, I wanted to go for the win.”Worley, a two-time giant slalom world champion, had the added pressure of skiing in front of her home fans.
“This is not an easy position, with the home crowd favorite to … I mean, thank you for cheering for me anyway,” said Shiffrin, who was the 2018 Olympic champion and won five of the last six giant slaloms on the World Cup circuit. Brignone, who won gold in the combined event that opened the worlds last week, recovered from illness over the past days.
“I’m so proud, so happy, I managed to do it,” the Italian said. “Today I was completely free, thinking about my skiing, I was able to put everything away.”Competing in her first major event since not winning a medal in six starts at last year’s Beijing Olympics, it was Shiffrin’s first gold medal at the world championships after winning the combined title in 2021 in Italy.”I feel really emotional right now,” Shiffrin said. “It’s unbelievable, it’s 12 hundredths, it’s really a small margin. On the bottom I just went blind and was like, just ski faster. I don’t know how, just do it.”It raises her tally to seven world titles and 13 medals overall from 16 career world championship races.
Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in giant slalom for her 7th career Alpine world title | Watch (msn.com)
She is in second place behind German skier Christl Cranz on the all-time list for
the most individual medals won by a woman at the worlds. Cranz won 15 medals in the 1930s.The victory makes Shiffrin only the fourth female skier to win world titles in four different disciplines, after previously winning four golds in slalom, one in super-G and
the combined gold two years ago. Shiffrin didn’t finish her opening event at the world’s last week when she straddled a gate in the slalom portion of the combined.
She won silver in the super-G two days later.
Shiffrin’s last race at the worlds is the slalom tomorrow.
Nina O’Brien posted the second-fastest time in the final run and improved from 21st to 11th position, while American teammate Paula Moltzan spun around and missed a gate halfway through her first run and did not finish. Moltzan fractured her hand in Tuesday’s team event, which the U.S. team won. Shiffrin did not compete in that event.”The hand is as good as it was going to feel so I’m not disappointed with that,” said Moltzan, who had her glove taped to her ski pole during her run. “I think I just misjudged my turn a tiny bit and came inside a bit and couldn’t recover.”
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