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Levi's second place, just 18 cents from Vlhova, has a very special meaning for the queen who has returned after the death of her father and the thousand doubts of these months. "I've never dreamed of the podium in all this time: I didn't really know what to get".
Saturday 21 November 2020 3 minutes reading time
Three hundred, three hundred long days of waiting, doubts, fears.
Mikaela Shiffrin is back and has done it as the absolute champion she is, caressing the dream of a victory that would have been incredible, perhaps as much as a second place is a stone's throw from Petra Vlhova, her great rival in slalom and, potentially, even for the fight at a World Cup that the Colorado star does not want to think about.
Mikaela just had to return, after the death of dad Jeff, the pandemic, the physical problems deriving from the long stop and the little training of the whole summer-autumn period, practically only the last two weeks really well done at Copper Mountain among "his "Narrow poles. In other disciplines he will probably encounter more problems, but this podium number 97 is the most special of all. “I'm so proud of her”, said mother Eileen at the end of the first heat who had already seen her daughter glued to Vlhova.
"I didn't want to dream of being on the podium again, because I wasn't sure if all this would still be possible - confessed Shiffrin at the end of the race - Since last February I have been asking myself questions about my return, succeeding and overcoming the day starting from the starting gate, up to this result, is something great.
I felt like I was going back to the beginning of my career, it's a special emotion ”. And on Sunday who knows that the woman of the records, now much more human in the eyes of many after what happened, will not be able to give herself what would be the fifth to Levi.
Welcome back, Regina Mikaela.
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