by admin | Dec 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin has won both giant slaloms this season and now trails only two women on the all-time World Cup GS victories list. Shiffrin, who owns a record 46 World Cup slaloms wins, earned her 14th victory in the GS in Courchevel, France, on Tuesday. She has 72nd...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova will stick to her reduced World Cup schedule this season, making it unlikely she’ll become a threat to Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid for the overall title. Initially a slalom specialist, Vlhova became the first overall champion from Slovakia...
by admin | Dec 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It was Lara Gut-Behrami’s turn to edge Sofia Goggia for victory in a World Cup super-G race Saturday, reversing the result of their duel in Canada last weekend. Gut-Behrami raced down the typically tricky St. Moritz terrain 0.18 seconds faster than Goggia...
by admin | Dec 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin earned her first World Cup podium in a speed race since January 2020, taking third in a super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Saturday. Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, the world champion, prevailed by .18 of a second over Italian Sofia Goggia, who won all...
by admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The most enduring athletic careers are typically defined by a rivalry with an opponent of comparable talent or skill. Think Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. The American ski racing wunderkind Mikaela...
by admin | Nov 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Reigning World Cup overall champion Petra Vlhova set the pace in the first run of the World Cup slalom in Killington, Vermont, on Sunday, two-tenths of a second in front of home hope Mikaela Shiffrin. Slovakia’s Vlhova, who edged Shiffrin in two slaloms in Levi...
by admin | Nov 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin races in the U.S. for the only time this season this weekend, in the spotlight at a World Cup stop in Killington, Vermont (broadcast schedule here). All slopes lead to Beijing in February. Shiffrin, a gold medalist in 2014 and 2018, has repeated in...
by admin | Nov 21, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Practice made perfect for Petra Vlhova on Saturday, beating Mikaela Shiffrin in the first World Cup slalom of the season. The Slovakian overall champion had been training for three weeks in Finnish Lapland and skipped a parallel event in Austria last week to get ready...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin is not able to ski and prepare the way she would like to because of a hurt back that she likened to “a very severe muscle spasm or kind of a strain” in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday....
by admin | Nov 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin is speaking candidly about the pressures she faces in the spotlight as an Olympic champion. While recently chatting with PEOPLE ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, the 26-year-old alpine ski racer — who has won two golds and a silver medal at Olympic...
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