Good one.

Wow.

Not gonna race tomorrow, but in Sunday's slalom.
Wonder if she'll let er rip...
And how bout AJ in the first seed GS, eh?

She came on the FIS scene in 2010 starting at the back of the pack, finishing top 10s.
Who is this girl?
Googled her and learned that she'd won both Topolino races the previous season by 3...

Margin of victory 2.34 in today's slalom?
Increasing her margin in the 2nd run?
Unreal skiing.

Looking forward to viewing her 1st run from today.

How bout her and Vhlova being 2 seconds in front of the field in Courcheval?
League of their own right now in slalom, eh?

Wonder what happened to the course after bib 30?
edit: sounds like the light went to shit.

Yeah, girl.
Funny how many of the great skiers start out as SL specialists and end up being great in speed with training later in their career...

A big one.

Last year Vhlova was outta gas. She found some high test during the off season it appears.

Vhlova and Shiffrin were stand above that second run.
Looked like they were skiing a fresh course.
Gonna be a great slalom rivalry tween the two this season, eh?

Queen of snow.
So good.

Quit feeding the troll y'all, it's distracting from our amazement and adoration.
Shiffrin just won four World Cup races in a row!
In three disciplines!
We were all wondering if she'd regain her...

Agreed.
And how bout Sunshine scoring points in her first 2 WC starts?

Maybe she oughta switch to speed, eh?

Atta girl.
Toasting her with a cup of Joe.

How bout them apples?

Thanks for that, Bozo.
Damn, she won today's training by 3/4 of a second.
Must be hungry.
Wasn't she skiing fast DH like 5 years ago?
Nice to see her fast again with the DH hiatus of late.
Maybe...

Am confused; they both ran the DH training this morning, Shiff was 3rd and Vhlova was 23rd...

Truly appreciate your knowledge and sharing it, Dee.
Feeling sheepish for trying to spread misinformation, a quality I do not admire.
Noticed that you said "local" snow. The quotation marks lead me...

My bad. Believed bad intel., thanks for the correction. Feeling better about the host, and a little more bummed for her about her performance.

Adding to the above, that coaching change at the last minute was strange, and that Coley Oliver was added to her staff was even stranger.
I watched him as a junior as well. He was on the Snowbird...

Been following this athlete since she was a kid.
She won both the giant slalom and slalom in the 2010 Trofeo Topolino children's races, the slalom by 4 seconds. Forty? countries participate. Vlhova...

Not this.
She was no more in the way of the race than the other 150 people on the hill.
Spoiled child?
Really?
Is she not allowed to get her shit together before dealing with the media / us?...

This.

Boy she skied clean up top.
Without that speed scrub at 1:10-1:15 into her run she woulda won!
You can even hear her vocalize her mistake in the audio.
And first Super G race of the year for her,...

Bump

Thanks for sharing that. Wow, tough course indeed.
No wonder a third of the field DNFd.
Hopefully no season enders...

How can the best slalom skier ever be such a great glider as well?
Boy do the ltalian women have a strong squad...

Don't have a way to watch.
Looking at the results on the FIS website, was wondering why she had the gas down second run.
Cause they don't have the 1st run times for 2nd run DNFs it took some...

This made me laugh.
Mikaela for president!

I never get to Europe anymore but she's gotta be a household name from the Arctic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
Always amazed that we Yanks idolize sports team standouts to the neglect of...

Thanks for the math.
Couldn't happen to a better person.
She's pretty easy to get behind.
Specially compared to LV.

Kinda like Kristoffersen being under Hirscher all last winter...and this one, too, eh?

That was a great little streak she had going...all things come to an end.
Only see times, not footage; she bobble the second run?
First run times sure were close.

^^^
Nice to hear, thanks. Don't have a way to watch...can only see results on the FIS website!
Was hoping she had / has more in the tank.

Yeah Shiff! Looks like Brignone crushed the 1st run, and Worley the 2nd, Shiffrin steady in both...
Funny how the 1st seven starters finished top seven...and each from a different country.
Here's...

Woohoo!

Smite thyself, doubter...

WOW!

Helluva first run...

Pretty cool to have Bode broadcasting. Insightful to the nth degree. Looking forward to his commenting.
Like how he's still a team mate / coach to Mikaela... talking about warming up in the GS for...

Chill y'all. Shiffrin is a big league hitter. Hits home runs at crunch time. Seeing how she's only 22, we can look forward to her crushing many more Olympics if this one is not in the stars. Looking...

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I totally agree. In 2010 at the Trofeo Topolino international children's races, Shiffrin won the GS and then won the slalom...by four seconds. Against the best 14 year olds in the world. Same year...

They switched up and ran the slalom in Lienz today instead of GS.

MS only won the first run by 1.14

Flying over STAT to work on her equipment issues and alignment problems before the GS...hope...

Zuzulova crushed that second run, yet Mikaela did her lower course comeback!!! Wow, those will be two runs to see. Way to go Shiffrin, what a pressure performance. She sure deserves the consecutive...

But the 2nd run is still in progress...fingers crossed.

Thanks for the beta...looks like her speed training is paying off without sacrificing her tech skills, eh?

What blows me away most about Mikaela this year is that she scored and 18th and a 13th in DOWNHILL at Lake Louise last week. In her 1st World Cup downhills. On a glider's course. Holy shit! Without...