by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
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...
by admin | Dec 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin made ski racing history once again on Thursday night. This time, however, she wasn’t the only American skier doing so. Shiffrin led teammate Paula Moltzan for the U.S. ski team’s first 1-2 finish in a women’s World Cup slalom since...
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 | Nov 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Wendy Holdener’s lengthy wait for a slalom victory came to an end Sunday, although the Swiss skier had to share top spot with Anna Swenn Larsson. Mikaela Shiffrin finished fifth while bidding for a sixth straight win in Killington. The American was fastest in...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Struggling U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin is cutting out interviews at the Beijing Winter Olympics. After disqualifications in the giant slalom and slalom generated controversial TV coverage that included a raw interview with NBC, the two-time gold medalist issued a...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin won the last women’s World Cup slalom before the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, while her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title in the discipline. Racing on the challenging Planai course, the American improved from fifth place,...
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 | 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...
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