“There’s a balance I’m starting to find, and that I’m ready to find, between the work — doing my job on snow and doing my job in the gym, always with the focus I bring to my sport — and saying to myself ‘I want to do this, I want to have that experience.’ “
The first half of 2018 was remarkable for Mikaela Shiffrin. During the season that began in late 2017 and concluded in the spring of 2018, she podiumed 18 times and won 12 World Cup races in three of the sport’s four disciplines. Her three downhill podiums — including a win in Canada and a stunning third on the tough Cortina, Italy course — silenced doubters about her ability and progression in downhill and Super-G.
Shiffrin then won a gold and a silver at the Olympics in South Korea and wrapped it all up in March by taking the world overall crown for the second year in a row.