The 120 wonders of Mikaela, poker as Vonn and a long story: "Ups and downs, but I wanted this"

With the second place in the super-g of Courchevel, Mikaela Shiffrin has crossed another impressive milestone in terms of podiums, but above all she has closed every speech related to the overall World Cup. Three years after the last time, Sunday will raise a crystal ball of enormous value. And with her Mowinckel celebrates: "I didn't win much, today is a special day".

Thursday 17 March 2022 4 minutes reading time

Simply destroyed, more by the criticism than in his soul, since from his words transpired, and evidently it was not only appearance, a certain serenity of mind that the pre-February 2020 Mikaela probably would not have had. This happened to Mikaela Shiffrin less than a month ago, at the end of the Beijing Olympic Games concluded without medals in six races, and while many were already predicting a Petra Vlhova launched towards an encore in the World Cup, with the two rivals on par. after the Crans-Montana descents, one of the greatest female skiers in history was preparing a number 1 finish, which she has been for almost a decade, from the first world title in Schladming 2013. Today is the day of the rematch, even if she does not want to consider it as such because she is too lady to think about that, but the conquest of the fourth absolute crystal ball of the career, after the three in series of 2017, 2018 and 2019, has a flavor that can only be completely different from that of the "first Shiffrin". Before the death of dad Jeff, when she was launched towards consecutive poker in 2020, the pandemic and a season, the last one, in which with very little summer-autumn training she was dedicated only to giant and slalom. With two days as an absolute champion in Courchevel, 180 points collected between downhill and super-g, the 27-year-old from Edwards definitively rejected Vlhova and took home, with two races to spare, the fourth "coppone" like her compatriot Lindsey Vonn, two less than Annemarie Moser-Proell who remains, at least for now, up there. The story of Mikaela is certainly not over, and it seems that she still has a great desire to continue, probably until the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games, and it is impressive to observe that, with today's second place at 5 cents from Ragnhild Mowinckel, Shiffrin has ringed the 120th podium in the maximum circuit, out of 216 bibs worn and arriving at -17 from Vonn herself, who still has 8 more victories (82 to 74). (updating)

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