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Mikaela Shiffrin Rules The World By Knowing What She Can't DoIt’d be almost exhausting if it weren’t so preposterous: Mikaela Shiffrin has done it again. With the close of the World Ski Championships in Åre, Sweden, she’s broken another record. Hit another personal best. She’s still just 23 years old. And she’s done it with an approach to her craft, and her c...
Lindsey Vonn Went Big And Now She's Going Home A LegendWatching Lindsey Vonn at the end of Sunday’s downhill race in Are, Sweden, her smile dazzling, her arms spreading into a victory V, bowing half-humorously to the cheering crowd, one thought occurred to me: It’s been a while since we’ve seen Vonn smile this big in the finish area. That thought was fo...
Lindsey Vonn Crashes In Final Super-G Race Of Her Career
Lindsey Vonn, the most dominant female ski racer in history, announced last week that she will be retiring from the sport after this week’s world championships in Sweden. Today, she participated in the super-G race, but crashed early on after straddling a gate:...
How NBC Flubbed Its Coverage, Reported The Wrong Gold Medalist, Then Botched The Correction Of One Of The Most Stunning Upsets In Olympic History
When Ester Ledecká crossed the finish line of this morning’s run of the women’s Super-G a hundredth of a second ahead of reigning gold medalist Anna Veith, the Czech couldn’t believe she’d beaten the Austrian champ. Ledecká, after all, is best known for her achievements in a completely different eve...
Lindsey Vonn Is Going For Broke In Her Last Olympics
Lindsey Vonn is the most decorated female skier in history, and the most decorated skier, man or woman, in U.S. history. She’s also the athlete whose motto is “If you fall, pick yourself back up.” And with good reason. It isn’t just that she’s fallen, a lot. It’s that each time she picks herself bac...
<em></em>Marcel Hirscher Is Finally, <i>Finally</i>, An Olympic Champion
Before today, Marcel Hirscher had never won Olympic gold. Somehow....
Everyone You Need To Know In Olympic Women's Ski Racing<em></em>
Since Sochi, the women’s ski racing field has undergone a serious shake-up. Sure, the men have had some big-name retirements since 2014 (Bode Miller, Ivica Kostelić, Mario Matt, Benjamin Raich). But the women were practically swept of their previous all-stars: As they hit 30 (or came close), an enti...
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Everyone You Need To Know In Olympic Men's Ski Racing
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: ski racing is an insanely exciting sport. And not (only) because of the crashes....
Mikaela Shiffrin Has Never Been Better, And Neither Has Anyone Else
Writing about Mikaela Shiffrin’s success would be getting boring—if her narrative arc weren’t continually getting more dramatic. Back at the Sochi Olympics, the story was how the then-18-year-old kept her nerve after flubbing a turn and won slalom gold. Later that year, it was how she’d mastered sla...
The Non-Skier's Guide To Ski Racing (And Ski Crashing)
Olympic skiing began this morning—men's downhill, airing on tape delay at 11 a.m.—and if you're like most viewers, you either watch the sport with quadrennial befuddlement or you change the channel entirely. As a former ski racer, and someone who started scooting around on skis at about the same tim...