For American skier Mikaela Shiffrin, 2023 was the year in which she sealed her place in the record books, overtaking the legendary Ingemar Stenmark to tally the most World Cup wins of any skier in history.
Olympic ski jump champion Andreas Wellinger believes that he and his team-mates have the class to end a 22-year German title drought at the Four Hills tournament. A German has not topped the podium since Sven Hannawald in 2002, then as the first man to achieve a grand slam by winning at all four stops of the German-Austrian event. This term Karl Geiger has two World Cup wins, Pius Paschke one, and Wellinger four podiums in a strong return from a severe knee injury. That gives the Germans confide
Mikaela Shiffrin has extended her record of World Cup wins to 90. The American two-time Olympic champion dominated a slalom Sunday, pleasing the home crowd by posting the fastest time in both runs on the Superstar course and beating her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova by 0.33 seconds. “It’s amazing to do this, especially here, with the home crowd,” said Shiffrin, who is from Colorado but can almost consider Killington a hometown race because she honed her skills nearby at the Burke Mountain Academy as a teenager.