by admin | Jan 23, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin admitted she could have not cared at all about Saturday’s slalom. Her focus was Friday’s giant slalom and locking up the season title in that discipline. Yet as she approached the start gate in the early afternoon in Åre, Sweden, a familiar...
by admin | Jan 23, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhova, who is Mikaela Shiffrin’s long-term rival in slalom, was ruled out for the rest of the World Cup season after suffering a knee injury Saturday during the first run of a women’s World Cup giant slalom close to her hometown....
by admin | Jan 9, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Slovakian skier Petra Vlhová held on to her first-run lead to win a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday after Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish the opening leg. Racing in falling snow, Vlhova finished 0.72 seconds ahead of runner-up Lena Duerr of Germany. Read...
by admin | Jan 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
American AJ Hurt made her first Alpine skiing World Cup podium in her 61st start, placing third in a slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, on Sunday. Hurt, 23, rallied from 16th place after the first run by posting the fastest second run. “I thought to myself, ‘Well if I...
by admin | Dec 29, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin finished 2023 with an eye-catching performance even by her standards, winning a World Cup slalom race by a huge margin of 2.34 seconds Friday for her 93rd career victory. The American posted the fastest time by far in both runs on the Schlossberg...
by admin | Nov 28, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin built on her first-run lead to win a women’s World Cup slalom race Sunday for her record-extending career victory No. 90. The American two-time Olympic champion pleased the home crowd by posting the fastest time in both runs and beating her...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Since before this season started, Mikaela Shiffrin eschewed talk about the career World Cup wins record of 86, which has stood since 1989, believing it was too far away. Shiffrin, who began the October-to-March campaign with 74 wins, dismissed any chase storylines...
by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin missed what looked like a certain gold medal Monday on the opening day of the world championships, skiing out of the women’s combined race with the finish in sight. Shiffrin straddled the third-to-last gate in her slalom run while...
by admin | Jan 12, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Not all that long ago in Mikaela Shiffrin’s trophy-studded, storied ski career, there was a moment when it seemed like it all might be going—forgive me—downhill. It was February of last year in Beijing. Coming into the Olympics, Shiffrin had been built up as one of...
by admin | Jan 4, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin took another step towards matching Lindsey Vonn’s women’s record of 82 World Cup wins when she nailed the fastest time on the first run of Wednesday’s slalom in Zagreb. The 27-year-old American, who won all three events at last...
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