Mikaela Shiffrin back on skis in Squaw Valley and beat another record: the first "millionaire" of alpine skiing

The American champion has earned more than one million Swiss francs last season, surpassing a "wall" never reached even by Marcel Hirscher

Friday 26 April 2019 3 minutes reading time

For Mikaela Shiffrin the vintage of the records is not over yet. After an endless series of engagements between TV, sponsors and various guests (even in the NBA world to support its Denver Nuggets), the winner of the last 3 consecutive World Cups is back on skis, training on the snow of Squaw Valley these days . On social media, the 24-year-old from Colorado wanted to tell her fans some details of the business in Are's slalom, when a heavy flu had also questioned her participation in the last race of a World Cup which, in addition to the "Gold in his specialty, he also brought her the most precious metal in super-g and the giant bronze. Speaking of medals and awards, Mikaela broke a new record in the world of alpine skiing: no one in history, men and women, makes no difference, had never exceeded the wall of the million Swiss francs (the currency used by the FIS) of prizes in money in a single season. As quoted by the Swiss daily Blick, the dominator of the circuit, who in the 2018/19 season scored 17 victories in the World Cup, taking home in addition to the general crystal ball also three specialty cups (super-g, giant and slalom) . 886.386 francs are earned in the Cup, 114,000 are those with the three world medals in Are, a total of 1,000,386. "I am proud to be part of a sport in which there is no difference in gender pay," Shiffrin's words referring to the fact that FIS in most cases distributes the same amount of cash prizes for men and women ( just look at many other sports to catch the differences). Clearly behind the star of Vail, obviously we find the "usual" Marcel Hirscher, with a prize pool of 643,111 francs, while the Slovak Petra Vhlova is the second woman in the ranking with a gain of 524,195.50 francs.

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