I don't pretend to have any special insight. This is just internet musings. But she was clearly raised a tech skier (like most not from the West), and that has been her specialty. Her first WC speed...

I would stop racing DH and SG if I were her. She's proved she can win those events if she wants to. I rather stay healthy, and crush SL and GS for years to come, than risk permanently fucking...

NYTimes article with some good quotes:

“Avoiding injuries is at least 80 percent skill,” said Ted Ligety. “People who fall generally do it a lot because they take too many risks and don’t have the...

What a great run and way to set the record. Beautiful sunny day.

Might be #1 Shiffrin forum page on the net, eh? I wonder if she reads this thread.

This is getting boring. She needs a new challenge. Start racing SL and GS with the men.

Who was saying she was over the hill? Her competition at the moment is mostly older than Shiffrin (27). Gut (31), Brignone (32), Vlhová (27), Mowinckel (30). It would be nice to see some young talent...

No, her next race isn't until Cortina, Italy, Jan. 20-22. And it's pissing rain in half of North America. Why do you think we are debating flaccid ski racers?

You're going to cite a made for daytime Saturday TV NBC special as your proof that ski racers are elite athletes? News flash, ski racers are the spawn of rich people in Canada and Europe too. It's an...

Ski racing is a sport rich doctors, dentist, and lawyers have their kids participate in so that they can live vicariously through them.

Shiffrin is a dominant force but I question the elite...

I do appreciate the objectivity of ski racing. It doesn't matter if people think you look like shit. If you have the fastest time, you win. And the tech events are even more objective than the speed...

How many people ski race in the US? Like, maybe a couple thousand. Now how many people play soccer, tennis or basketball? Millions. Why should people care about ski racing? Ski racers are...

Talk about being in the zone.

Shiffrin had a slight bump in the road the other day, losing a GS to a goofball Canadian from the flats of Ontario who is obsessed with eating eggs. Valerie Grenier,...

Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan come to mind as elite professional athletes who both lost their father in the prime of their career. I'd say Shiffrin is handling loosing her father better than either...

At a normal venue, with snow beyond the fences, she could have slipped through the fence and taken time to collect herself and her emotions. But in Beijing, she has to ski down the course knowing NBC...

Professional sports is just another form of reality tv. We enjoy living vicariously through athletes.

Great post From the NEK.

Shiffrin should go talk to Kelly Slater. Slater, in my mind, is...

All world cup races in North America have been canceled. First races are October 17 and 18 in Soelden, Austria.

From the NY Times:

Mikaela Shiffrin Plans Return to World Cup Racing

March 5, 2020, 10:54 a.m. ET

In the first week of February, as Mikaela Shiffrin sat in a Colorado bedroom preparing a...