Mikaela Shiffrin, of Edwards, stretches through the finish line of the World Cup slalom in Levi, Finland, on Nov. 22. Shiffrin is home in Eagle County following the World Cup season, her 11th on the circuit and most difficult to navigate.
Jussi Nukari / AP file photo
Mikaela Shiffrin doesn’t need to talk about planning when she was in kindergarten, she planned on being a baseball player, not a two-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time overall World Cup champion. So there’s no need to try to predict the future for the upcoming Beijing Olympics in 2022 or the prospect of catching (more) all-time records in the sport. She knows that plans can change, such as they did dramatically ahead of the 2020-21 World Cup season that recently wrapped up in Europe in March.