Mikaela Shiffrin’s breakout 2012-13 season included four World Cup wins, a World Championship, and the World Cup slalom title. She has won three World Cup slaloms so far this season.
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MIKAELA SHIFFRIN HAS TAKEN THE SKI WORLD BY STORM.
ARE YOU READY FOR WHAT’S NEXT?
BY GEOFF MINTZ J portrait by brent bingham
he winter of 2013 will forever be remembered by ski racing fans as the season in which a 17-year-old girl from Vail, Colo., redefined the modern assumption of what is possible. “I’m finally here and I’m finally doing what I’ve always set out to do,” Mikaela Shiffrin said during a post-race press conference shortly after winning the slalom gold medal at the Alpine World Ski Championships last February. “But the hardest thing is when people ask me … how do I do this? I just don’t have an answer. I’m just doing what I do, and I don’t want to wait.”
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