Shiffrin

[gregL]

Beautiful skiing and I bet half the Atomic factory was there to see it.

[Supermoon]

Amazing.

[MakersTeleMark]

Just to see her happy is good enough for me. I don't care about records. She is a good person. Period.

[powdrhound]

She is So Smooth.
Effortless.

[surface whore]

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[skiJ]

Just to see her happy is good enough for me. I don't care about records. She is a good person. Period.

word - skiJ

[cat in january]

This is why we have sports, so we can see the good in people when there is so much awful being shown by some. Thank you Mikaela

[anotherVTskibum]

She is So Smooth.
Effortless.

Smooth, yes. Effortless, eh, I'm betting that's an illusion.

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[From_the_NEK]

I'm so glad she was finally able to break through and get back to the top. It has been a long difficult year for her.

[snojones]

So glad that she is here to remind us that humanity is not just a bunch of selfish assholes. THANK YOU MEKAELA!!!

[alpinevibes]

She is So Smooth.
Effortless.

Smooth and effortless - like Ingemar doing that box jump at 60y/o!

Incredible for Mikaela, that primal scream of joy was sincere. Very happy to see her firing again and showing her greatness

[fatnslow]

She has more slalom wins than most countries have podiums in their entire FIS history

[Vt-Freeheel]

Day 2 Slovenia, run 2 live now Olympic channel.

[Danno]

4th in today's GS.

[Vt-Freeheel]

[beer30]

Check out her run if ya can. Girl had em running fast!!

[telefreewasatch]

Boy she skied clean up top.
Without that speed scrub at 1:10-1:15 into her run she woulda won!
You can even hear her vocalize her mistake in the audio.
And first Super G race of the year for her, no?
Go Schiff!

[kootenayskier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTgDiTmqiWQ

[Hood26]

In an interview, she said she was 98% happy with her run and having fun while skiing, and 2% motivated.

This points to good race watching for the rest of the Championships. She has 3 more events to go.

[Toadman]

Boy she skied clean up top.
Without that speed scrub at 1:10-1:15 into her run she woulda won!
You can even hear her vocalize her mistake in the audio.
And first Super G race of the year for her, no?
Go Schiff!

Yep, scrubbed about .50-.60 seconds on that gate.

[skiJ]

I hope she continues to be happy and
I hope she has Fun ! !!

She is an amazing racer !
Stenmark, Hirscher, Shiffrin.

the people who claim she is competing against a 'weak' field . . . Gut and Vhlova would be competitive in any era ; LV was The Champion who led the way ;

it is such a Pleasure to watch her race
( I really don't care if she never wins again ( and I believe she will ( win again. and again. and again... ))) - tj

[The Tortoise]

I appreciate that she calls people out.

[beer30]

Classy competitor

[RShea]

Boy she skied clean up top.
Without that speed scrub at 1:10-1:15 into her run she woulda won!
You can even hear her vocalize her mistake in the audio.
And first Super G race of the year for her, no?
Go Schiff!

First Super G in over a year and she only did very limited training even. She had not done Super G and started training in the 3rd week of January. She also made this comment:

National federations only get a limited number of starting spots for each race at world championships, and Shiffrin pointed out she was reluctant to take a teammate’s place. But with Shiffrin as the 2019 gold medalist, the U.S. ski team gets an additional starting berth for the Feb. 9 super-G race.

“That’s nice because that opens it up a little bit,” she said.

So shows she is also thinking of the team and what is best for US Skiing.

[Dee Hubbs]

"National federations only get a limited number of starting spots for each race at world championships, and Shiffrin pointed out she was reluctant to take a teammate’s place. But with Shiffrin as the 2019 gold medalist, the U.S. ski team gets an additional starting berth for the Feb. 9 super-G race."
“That’s nice because that opens it up a little bit,” she said.

So shows she is also thinking of the team and what is best for US Skiing.

USA only get 4 racers on the World Championship entry for Super G, and as the reigning SG World Champion, Mikaela earned her right for her to get a fifth spot on the entry, so there is no reason why she would not take that spot.
She also needed a good result in SuperG to get her World Cup Startling List points higher, this is very important in determining her starting position at the Olympics in China/2022.