Mikaela Shiffrin‘s first heartwarming experience of the season occurred far from TV cameras on an Austrian slope in November. It wasn’t the last.
After the first giant slalom was canceled due to weather, Shiffrin trained slalom in the Tyrolean village of Pitztal. One day, Marlies Schild, one of her ski racing idols, came out with her two sons. The next day, Schild toted her 3-year-old daughter, Magdalena, and slipped the course (a kind of preparation) for Shiffrin. Read More
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