by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the Alpine skiing World Cup podium with a runner-up to Swiss Wendy Holdener in a slalom in Sestriere, Italy, on Sunday. Holdener, who two weeks ago earned her first World Cup slalom victory (a tie with Swede Anna Swenn Larsson) after 30...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Sometime in the coming weeks, U.S. alpine ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin will presumably — presumably being a very loaded and problematic word here — win her 83rd race on the World Cup circuit, the highest level of her sport, thus passing fellow American Lindsey Vonn...
by admin | Nov 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th. Gut-Behrami was third in the opening run on the course in Killington, Vermont, but did just enough...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin became the first woman to win the first two races of the Alpine skiing World Cup season in 29 years, taking back-to-back slaloms this weekend and bouncing back from her worst string of slalom results to end last season. Shiffrin followed her 75th...
by admin | Jul 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin is used to steering through twists and turns. But nothing could have prepared the champion Alpine skier for the last two years: the sudden death of her father, a debilitating back injury, and a positive COVID-19 test that forced her to miss some World...
by admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin does not know what happened in Beijing. She can and did put on a brave face to deliver what she called a “generic” answer, but, she said, she truly doesn’t know. Shiffrin penned a piece in “The Players’...
by admin | Mar 22, 2022 | Representation, SEW
For all the lead-up talk about Mikaela Shiffrin‘s medal possibilities at the Olympics, she said at the end of her season that her primary objective was about all of the races before and after the Games. “I had quite a few goals, but my biggest goal was the overall...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin’s standout World Cup season ended by letting the giant slalom title slip away to Tessa Worley on Sunday. As the final racer of the women’s season, Shiffrin was the first-run leader with a 0.82-second advantage. She needed to win the race...
by admin | Mar 20, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Mikaela Shiffrin who won the World Cup title this week. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Chinese government who spied on US figure skater Alysa Liu and her father.
by admin | Mar 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin won skiing’s overall World Cup title for the fourth time Thursday, fueled by speed races that turned her expected duel with Petra Vlhová into a runaway success. Shiffrin finished second in the super-G at the World Cup finals — one day...
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