mikaela shiffrin

The FIS Women's World Cup is coming back to Killington for it's third iteration this coming November. It just get better every year. Women's GS and SL on Superstar. @ChunderBlunder and myself will be there again this year. I've already booked our lodging. If you intend to go you may want to...

Best Female athlete. http://www.espn.com/espys/story/_/page/voting2/best-female-athlete

We need a dedicated thread. EDIT: Go ahead and post live results in this thread. do not read this thread if you don't want to know. It is simply too complicated between NBC's broadcast prime time, posters living From Australia/NZ, Japan, to the PNW, and the ability to live stream. Note...

The World Cup women are in Cortina for their annual speed week. First training run was today. Vonn crushed it (won the run by almost a second over Goggia), with Wiles and McKennis in 3-4, albeit more than 2 seconds back. Shiffrin was 13th, 3.26 seconds back. Mancuso was 51st and dead last...

With all the excitement from Killington, it is good to check in w/the men at LL. Yesterday's DH went off w/out a hitch. Podium: Feuz, Mayer, Svindal (All Head) Mayer and Svindal returning from recent injuries looking very strong. This course suits Svindal as well w/the long gliding section at...

Granted my modern World Cup ski experience is filtered through the overlords of the Olympic Channel but on more than one occasion I've heard the expert, i.e. Bode Miller refer to a skier's equipment issues in such a way you can tell it's more than just the tuning or boot fit... I get the...

Reporting from the Media Center, where I'm surrounded by Agence France Press journalists.... The GS course is set for tomorrow, and hill prep crews are working their magic. Most athletes have called it a day, though some are still banging the gates on Skye Lark. A couple of pics for y'all to...

In a recent post, @Muleski stated that the women on the USST were more interesting to watch these days, which I find accurate and interesting. I'm currently watching this Facebook Life from the USST at Copper Mountain. Its basically a video of them talking to kids who are training at Copper and...

Looks like some good training conditions. 1:20 for Shiffrin & Ligety...

All the great names come quickly to mind, Stenmark, Maeir, Klammer, Tomba, Maze, Kostelic...... For the record, I'm a huge Vonn fan. Yuge!! Anyway, Outside Magazine thinks she's the best ever and breaks out the supporting evidence in this article..... What say you?? Outside Magazine: The...

I was going to start a thread about this one article, but then I thought, we need a Mikaela Shiffrin thread. While the article is titled Meet the Mikaela Shiffrin Nobody Sees, It made me wonder how much of the lives of these athletes we truly see.

We spent some time with Andy Wirth over the summer, talking about Squaw Valley and its future. We discussed not only the very important upcoming redevelopment plans that include connecting Squaw and Alpine Meadows via a gondola, but also the return of World Cup skiing to Lake Tahoe and Squaw’s...

After a bummer of a day yesterday, Shiffrin pulls off an incredible win at Aspen Thank you @dondenver for sharing this.