Mikaela Shiffrin tells herself: "For me it will be like after an injury, but I thought I would never come back"

On the occasion of Atomic's Online Media Day, the American champion confessed before the opening in Soelden which will see her re-enter the race after almost 9 months and the death of her father Jeff. "For me, family is everything, I will live race after race".

Wednesday 7 October 2020 3 minutes reading time

“Yes, I also thought about never coming back”. Mikaela Shiffrin does not deny having lived the “most difficult period of my life”, as she had already told in some interviews after the lockdown and the disappearance, in early February, of her father Jeff. The most anticipated woman of the World Cup, the one who won three consecutive games before what happened last winter, has not competed since that super-g winning in Bansko, last January 26, even if she had decided to play for the crystal ball in the “anticipated finals” of Are, then canceled as well as the previous appointments of Ofterschwang and obviously the CdM finals in Cortina. Arrived in Europe for about ten days to begin the approach to Soelden, Mikaela spoke on the occasion of Atomic's Media Day online, which on the eve of this season had to cancel the traditional appointment with all its champions at the Altenmarkt headquarters . And the Colorado star explained that “she wondered if it was still worth being away from home for so long, because family is everything to me and with the disappearance of my dad, everything changes. The workout? It was good, although it will be a bit like coming back after an injury. I will have to live it race after race, taking one step at a time to understand my level in relation to the opponents ".

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