Mikaela Shiffrin

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin breaks Lindsey Vonn's record for World Cup Alpine victories, cementing her place among the greats in her sport.

For reasons she still can’t explain, she skied out on the first run of the giant slalom and slalom races, finished ninth in the super-G, 18th in the downhill, and clipped a gate and crashed out early in the slalom portion of the combined event. Winner of Olympic gold in the slalom in 2014 and gold in the giant slalom and silver in the combined in 2018, she went to the Beijing Games with great expectations. And then, for the third time in 10 days, she failed to finish in a slalom, her specialty. “It’s really strange, but I’m not even afraid of that right now and maybe it’s because I don’t have any emotional energy to give anymore.” After Shiffrin tied Vonn’s win total, she screamed for joy, releasing the pent-up nerves that she said had ignited a rash on her face. But to do it at such a young age is really impressive,” Vonn said in a diary she Jeff Shiffrin, 65, was an anesthesiologist by trade and a photographer by hobby, known for snapping photos of his daughter on the World Cup trail. “His name is in history as a legend of the sport that people will remember forever,” she told reporters. [a giant slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia](https://apnews.com/article/sports-mikaela-shiffrin-alpine-skiing-lindsey-vonn-ingemar-stenmark-aa16eabb472c4d020dce712ba18530f3), the 233rd World Cup race of her career. “I don’t think there are words to explain all the feelings,“ Shiffrin said. It’s very fitting that it would come in the moment when I’m thinking about it the least and don’t expect it at all.” “Also, the terminology ‘breaking records,’ I don’t like that either,” Shiffrin said in an interview recorded by the U.S.

Her 83rd victory in Italy on Tuesday leaves only one athlete ahead of Shiffrin: Ingemar Stenmark. The legendary Swedish skier has said he thinks Shiffrin ...

In the 2018-19 World Cup season, she won 17 races — a mark no other male or female skier has ever equaled. Now, at Kronplatz, Shiffrin let her ethereal mix of speed and technical ability shine. Shiffrin blazed out of the gate seemingly set on making history, her time never trailing any other skier. Shiffrin shattered the record she shared with fellow American Lindsey Vonn after 83 on the Kronplatz mountain in northern Italy on Tuesday. skier Mikaela Shiffrin now stands alone atop women's alpine skiing, after claiming World Cup win no.

Shiffrin passed Vonn by winning her 83rd World Cup race, the most by a female skier. She now needs just four more wins to break Ingemar Stenmark's career ...

[favored to win multiple medals](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/sports/olympics/mikaela-shiffrin-beijing-skiing.html) in a career that had produced two golds and a silver, the next step in her quest to become the most decorated skier ever to compete on the international stage. Shiffrin won back-to-back slalom races, the 75th and 76th wins of her career. women’s coach the past eight years, said Shiffrin spent a healthy chunk of the off-season testing new equipment that would ensure she had the proper ski for every type of hill and snow condition. Just 19, she arrived in the first slump of her career, having lost three slalom races earlier in the season and struggling at times to make the podium. The Alpine skiing competition at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, was a bit of a mess from the start. She called the result “a very big disappointment,” but returned to A few gates later she was back to business, zigzagging her way to the finish. Under the lights in Russia at Rosa Khutor, Shiffrin was more than a half-second ahead of Marlies Schild of Austria to win the Olympic slalom gold medal. The win made her the youngest women’s World Cup winner since Lara Gut of Switzerland in 2008, and the second-youngest American to win a World Cup race. Shiffrin is the first one to admit to being a bit of a worrier. Sometimes she does word searches and other puzzles at the top of the mountain before races to settle her nerves. “But when I got in the start, I felt alive and ready to race.”

Mikaela Shiffrin broke her tie with Lindsey Vonn for the most women's Alpine skiing World Cup wins, taking a giant slalom in Kronplatz.

And now she had pain in her left foot, and the trip to Japan was off, as was a planned trip to Hungary for the Budapest Trophy a week after the Japan Open, as was … Championships to top of the podium in 2018, and then won a team bronze medal at the PyeongChang Olympics. “Knowing what I am capable of is what drives me,” she said. She has become amazed by French cheese, its assortment so great former French President Charles de Gaulle famously joked, “How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?” (It was actually a gross underestimate on his part, as the total is well over 1,000.) She is dazzled by pastry shops with confections that are works of art. She made the top three in her last four appearances at nationals, also winning in 2021. She needed to compete at Great Britain’s Grand Prix in mid-November to earn a bye to the 2023 U.S. I knew I needed to calm down, and I didn’t know how because for the first time in my life, I couldn’t rely on training I had done. She since has had more than a month of good training there and another week in Norwood, Massachusetts, where she arrived Jan. We’re starting at the bottom of the ladder. It was the day before she was to leave for Japan. She was hoping such a dramatic change could bring renewed energy to her oft-delayed comeback. Her bags were packed for an early October trip to the Japan Open, an event that had would have symbolic resonance for her.

Shiffren entered this racing season eight victories short of the women's alpine skiing record, held by Lindsey Vonn with 82 first-place finishes. On Tuesday, in ...

In slalom and giant slalom categories, Shiffrin holds first place. Shiffrin, as she often does, soft-pedaled her record performance, telling NBC Sports, “This number 83, it was almost completely out of my mind today. Shiffrin has close ties to Vermont.

Winning her 83rd World Cup race on Tuesday, Mikaela Shiffrin edged past her tie with Lindsey Vonn to become the winningest woman alpine skier of all time.

“Mikaela Shiffrin is now not only the best woman alpine skier of all time, but she is also a great person, teammate and role model for the sport of alpine skiing,” said Sophie Goldschmidt, CEO of U.S. “As an organization, we are so proud of her accomplishments and cannot wait to see how she further transforms the sport and the history books next.” Shiffrin is just three wins away from being crowned the best alpine skier of all time. There’s no need for the world to place outside expectations on her. But a month after the Olympics, Shiffrin won her fourth World Cup overall title. She had tied Lindsey Vonn’s World Cup record of 82 on January 8 in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

Mikaela Shiffrin now stands alone as the greatest women's alpine skier of all time. Shiffrin, who grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire, won her record-setting ...

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd race on the women's World Cup circuit Tuesday. She passed fellow American Lindsey Vonn as the all-time ...

Go. And there's the possibility that Shiffrin, only 27 and someone who's been lucky to avoid major injury, could win 100 races before her career's over. She now needs to win four more races to break the all-time record, woman or man, held by Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark with 86. GOLDMAN: This crowning moment for Shiffrin is as stark an example as any of the wild swings in sports stardom. She was the last skier to go because she led after the first run. It broke a record held by fellow American Lindsey Vonn and now means Shiffrin has won more races than any woman in history.

Shiffrin's giant slalom victory broke a tie on the all-time women's list with former American teammate Lindsey Vonn.

That was where Shiffrin made her World Cup debut as a 15-year-old in March 2011. Shiffrin can quickly add to her record total in another giant slalom at Kronplatz on Wednesday. The Lookout is a free, daily email newsletter with news and happenings from all over Colorado. We can help you keep up. “I don’t know what to say right now.” Colorado skier Mikaela Shiffrin won a record 83rd World Cup race Tuesday.

Amidst historic seasons for alpine skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin and basketball powerhouse LeBron James, a coronation for one, validation for another.

In reality, the truth is simple: Shiffrin is one of best ski racers in history (not going to mention any farm animals here, that’s just too tired and reductive), and there is a very good chance that soon she will have won more World Cup races – each like a playoff game in another sport — than any skier in history. “And of course if I’m racing, I’m going to want to be a medal contender, and there’s all that goes along with that.” All that goes along with that. Ski afficionados will explain that the months-long grind of the World Cup is the true test of greatness, and that would not be wrong. This combination of factors – ski racing’s low profile in the U.S., American fans’ obsession with major sports, Shiffrin’s quiet Olympics – left her playing catch up with respect in a year that might have otherwise cemented her place in skiing history with several years left ahead. It comes down to this: LeBron’s record is a coronation, and Shiffrin’s, at least in part, is a validation. Content – from both Team Shiffrin and media — describing Shiffrin’s recent wins, and non-wins (some of which have been excellent performances despite not being victories) has breathlessly tried to explain the power of what Shiffrin is accomplishing. The NBA, according to commissioner Adam Silver, is preparing a ceremony to accompany James’s record, and Kareem is expected to be in attendance. Shiffrin participates in a very difficult and perilous sport, in which changing conditions – melting snow, encroaching shadows, a gust of wind – make consistency especially difficult. Meanwhile, Shiffrin’s steady overtaking of Vonn and Stenmark has been cast as proof of her excellence – the cake itself, not just the icing. Beyond that, much of their existence is defined by the culture and economics of their games. [cover](https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/18/ahead-of-his-class-ohio-high-school-junior-lebron-james-is-so-good-that-hes-already-being-mentioned-as-the-heir-to-air-jordan) of Sports Illustrated as a 17-year-old high school junior, with the cover line THE CHOSEN ONE, and a [prescient story](https://vault.si.com/vault/2002/02/18/ahead-of-his-class-ohio-high-school-junior-lebron-james-is-so-good-that-hes-already-being-mentioned-as-the-heir-to-air-jordan) famously written by my late friend and colleague, Grant Wahl. To be sure, LeBron is a polarizing persona both as a modern-day performer and historical figure.

Mikaela Shiffrin took to social media with a heartfelt message about her mindset following the American's historic 83rd Alpine Skiing World Cup victory.

“I think I like the mystery. Even though it feels like I might pass out from the uncertainty sometimes. But today is a gift. Tomorrow is a mystery. Or would you choose to be surprised… “Would you choose to know?

A day after breaking her tie with Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin won again, moving two victories shy of the overall Alpine skiing World Cup record.

[Follow @nbcolympictalk](https://twitter.com/nbcolympictalk) [Apple News](https://apple.news/TpWxoEZkEM5q1LCuelKJyZg). [Full Results](https://live.fis-ski.com/lv-al5043.htm?t=1674598396) Three Americans made the top 10 of a World Cup technical race (giant slalom or slalom) for the first time since Dec. After that, the record pursuit pauses for the world championships in France. Her 19 career World Cup giant slalom wins are second in women’s history, one behind retired Swiss Vreni Schneider. women to finish in the top 10 of any traditional World Cup slalom or giant slalom. women made the top 10 of a World Cup race in five years. … In the first run, I thought I’m either going to go out of the course in the fourth gate, or it’s going to be a really good run. “So I’m, like, more tired right now. “Technically, it is possible,” she said. It’s the first time three U.S.

A day after setting a record with her total of World Cup wins, Mikaela Shiffrin adds No. 84 after winning another giant slalom.

The second run, I was just trying to trust my skiing and keep pushing, no matter what I felt." Then I was awake at 5. I was awake at 3. And I didn't want to make a mistake today. And I was awake at midnight. "It's a special place for me," she said.

The American takes career World Cup victory number 84 in her 239th race, moving within two of Ingemar Stenmark's overall record.

Shiffrin's win was the 19th giant slalom win of her career, just one behind the record held by Vreni Schneider. It's the first time in over three seasons Shiffrin has reached double-digit wins on the World Cup circuit. Just an incredible feeling," Shiffrin said to FIS TV.

After Shiffrin's disaster at the Beijing Olympics last year, a timely lunch with the tennis great helped reinvigorate her run for Alpine skiing's wins ...

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Mikaela Shiffrin could match the all-gender World Cup record set by Ingemar Stenmark with two slalom races in Czech Republic.

Shiffrin had bettered fellow American Lindsey Vonn's record for women with a victory, her 83rd, in Tuesday's giant slalom in Kronplatz. Slalom is Shiffrin's specialty, with 51 of her World Cup victories coming in the discipline. 23-26 with two downhills and a super-G in Crans Montana, Switzerland. The World Cup circuit takes a break after that for the world championships, which are Feb. Her victory in the second giant slalom in Kronplatz, Italy, was the 84th of her career, leaving her just two from matching the all-gender mark set by Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark. "I was pushing so hard and I just hoped I ended up on the right side of all the gates.