It was a touch of serendipity that Mikaela Shiffrin clinched her fifth overall World Cup title this weekend racing in Norway, while Aleksander Aamodt Kilde secured his second World Cup downhill title on Colorado snow..
The prospect of Mikaela Shiffrin tying and possibly even surpassing Ingemar Stenmark’s all-time World Cup wins record during this weekend’s World Cup speed events in Kvitfjell, Norway, is a lede which shall not.
KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) The emotions came pouring out of Mikaela Shiffrin when she matched Lindsey Vonn’s women’s World Cup skiing record with her 82nd win Sunday.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Lindsey Vonn has been keeping track while Mikaela Shiffrin first matched her women’s World Cup skiing record of 82 wins earlier this month and then surpassed it with
"It might take me a little bit to figure out what to say," Shiffrin said after breaking the record. "I don't know what to say right now."