by admin | Jan 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympics were only five weeks away, and the most prominent Team USA athlete was sequestered in a hotel room in Austria, reduced to doing pull-ups on her bed frame and lunges with a single 15-kilogram plate and knocking on the wall to say hi to her mother in the...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Alpine skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin and snowboarding icon Shaun White were named in a 222-member USA team for the Beijing Winter Olympics on Monday, the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee said. Two-time Olympic gold medallist Shiffrin returns to compete in her third...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Sofia Goggia is going to need to recover in a hurry from a series of injuries following another crash on Sunday if she’s going to be able to defend her Olympic downhill title next month. Goggia would have been an overwhelming favorite for another gold — or two: she’s...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Shiffrins discovered the lyrics on a wedding program in the pocket of an old tuxedo. They had been printed 25 years ago, read aloud at the ceremony and forgotten. Mikaela Shiffrin—easily the most accomplished competitive skier still active; perhaps, one day, the...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Petra Vlhova cemented her status as the leading female slalom skier of the season with her fifth win in six races Sunday with just a month to go before the Olympic race in Beijing. The overall World Cup champion from Slovakia won the penultimate slalom before the...
by admin | Jan 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Only her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova remained out of reach. Otherwise, Mikaela Shiffrin had a satisfying return to competition at a floodlit slalom Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19 and missing two races last week. The American trailed winner Vlhova by...
by admin | Jan 4, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin is set to return to the women’s World Cup at a slalom on Tuesday, eight days after a positive Covid-19 test that forced her out of two technical races in Austria last week. Shiffrin had a negative test on Monday afternoon before the American’s name...
by admin | Dec 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The French athlete, who won the women’s giant slalom World Cup title in 2017, took advantage of the absence of Shiffrin, with the American forced to miss the two races between Christmas and New Year because of a positive coronavirus test. Worley won by 0.30 seconds in...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss this week’s Alpine skiing World Cup races. “I wanted to let you all know that I’m doing well, but unfortunately I had a positive COVID test,” was posted on her social media Monday morning. “I’m...
by admin | Dec 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sara Hector ended a drought of nearly five years for the Swedish women’s ski team by beating Mikaela Shiffrin in both runs of a World Cup giant slalom on Wednesday. No Swedish skier had triumphed on the women’s World Cup circuit since Frida Hansdotter won a night...
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