Perspective: Nearing history, Mikaela Shiffrin is still pursuing perfection
“After a race, for me, I’m so wired, I can’t even sleep,” she said. “I’m just totally like, ‘!’ Especially after the way this season started, it was so spectacular, I just couldn’t turn my brain off.”Which assumes Shiffrin’s brain has an off switch at all. There’s scant evidence of that. Those two slalom victories in Finland were the 75th and 76th World Cup wins of a career that has few peers. Lindsey Vonn holds the women’s record with 82, and Ingemar Stenmark holds the human mark with 86.
Killington — a giant slalom Saturday, a slalom Sunday — is the only U.S. stop on the women’s World Cup schedule. Shiffrin loves those events, just two hours from where she had her formative training, at Vermont’s Burke Mountain Academy. “It’s such a gift, such a kind atmosphere, a kind crowd,” she said.But it is also very much a business trip.
“I would be like, ‘What do I have to do to try catch up to her?’ ” Shiffrin said. “And then maybe I’d get neck and neck or I’d get just a little bit faster — and then she would put down a faster time.” And her voice picks up with emotion here. “Those are the days that areWe see the results and count the victories and figure out what’s possible and what would be legendary. For Shiffrin, there’s more joy in what we don’t see.
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