Mikaela Shiffrin finished the World Cup with one win, two records and a revelation
Michaela Schiffrin He finished a season setting records with two others.
Shiffrin won the World Cup finals giant slalom on the final day of the campaign, breaking her ties for most women’s giant slalom wins in her career and most podiums in all of the Women’s World Cup races.
Shiffrin achieved her record-breaking 88th World Cup final victory, as she prevailed by a margin of six hundred Thea Louise Stejersund Norway collect times than twice in Andorra on Sunday.
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She won the 21st career giant slalom, breaking her tie for most times in a Women’s World Cup Vrene Schneidera Swiss star in the 80’s and 90’s.
She has claimed her 138th World Cup finals podium finish in all events, breaking the tie for most times in a Women’s World Cup. Lindsey Vonn. Shiffrin earned her 138th podium finish in her 249th start, which means she’s finished in the top three in 55 percent of the World Cup races she entered for the first time at age 15 in 2011.
Earlier this season, Shiffrin surpassed Von W Ingmar Stenmark, a Swede of the 1970s and 1980s, has the most Alpine Ski World Cup victories. She won 14 times from November through March, which is the second-best season for her after her record 17-win campaign in 2018-19.
In those years, Shifrin experienced the hardest times in her life, the best slalom skier in the world took her place and challenged skiing like never before.
On Saturday afternoon, Shiffrin was asked what made the difference in the fall and winter seasons. There were multiple factors. She made one important detail.
“I suffered from many problems with my memory,” she said in a press conference. “Not this season, much, but last season and the season before that. I couldn’t remember the spins. And when I was kind of struggling with it, I couldn’t keep the mental energy for the second rounds.”
Checking the course before a race and being able to retain that knowledge for a minute after over an hour is integral to success in ski racing. Shiffrin has been so meticulous and methodical in her training, historically prioritizing it over racing in her early days, that checking seems to match her world-class preparations.
She didn’t understand how she lost that ability until she started working with a new sports psychologist last summer.
“It was more like a little bit more sports psychology and more focus on, like, psychology psychology and more grief counseling style,” she said. “Explaining what was really going on in my brain, like the chemical changes in the brain because of the trauma. Not just grief, but actually the traumatic experience itself of knowing what happened to my dad, of seeing him in the hospital, of touching him after he died. These are things you can’t get out of your head. It was her.” Effect. Obviously, it still is.”
Shiffrin had a “weird moment” after her first inspection of the season in November in Finland.
“I didn’t take that long to inspect,” she said, “and I remembered the whole course.” “Oh my God, I was like coming out of a cloud that I was in for over two years.”
What followed was a win, of course, and a season that came close to an unparalleled 2018-2019 season for Shiffrin. Fourteen wins in 31 World Cup starts, its busiest season ever, and achieved season titles in total slalom, slalom and GS in escape.
“After last season, I didn’t feel like I could get up to speed with skiing again where he was really competing on slalom globe,” she said. And the GS, I had a little bit more hope for that, but then at the start of the season, I kind of figured myself out.
“I feel like my high skating was higher than the previous two seasons, probably higher than my whole career. My average skating level was also higher than previous seasons, and my lows skating were also higher.”
There are other reasons to revive the dominance, though, as Shiffrin was also the best skier in the world last season (excluding the Olympics). She went out of her way on Saturday afternoon to credit her artistic director of seven years, Mike Daywho left the team during the World Series after being told he would not be retained for next season.
said Shiffrin, who parted ways with Day to bring him aboard Karen Harjothe first woman to hold the position of her coach as a professional.
Shiffrin’s greatest success this season began around the time she watched a Mid-December interview. Among the retired Liechtenstein skier Tina Weatherer and italian Sophia Jogia, the highest slopes in the world. Goggia has spoken of her disdain for mediums.
“Since then, pretty much every time I put my skates on, I’m like, ‘Well, don’t be modest today,'” Shifrin said in January.
During the season’s highest elevations, Shiffrin has felt the same as she did in 2018-2019.
“It’s baffling for me to be in a situation again where I felt this kind of momentum during a season because then [2018-19] In the season, I was like, ‘This will never happen again, and the best days of my career were really behind me, and it was sad to feel like that at this point four years ago,’” said Shiffrin, who turned 28, last week. “This season.” , if anything, he’s just proven himself with a 17 win streak [from 2018-19] Regardless, records or all of those things, that kind of momentum can still be felt.”
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