NY Times · Feb 16, 2022
Mikaela Shiffrin’s Alpine Career Is Far From Over
It can be hard to think of Mikaela Shiffrin, who has been considered a “Mozart” in her sport since 2010, as being only in midcareer.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesI first saw Mikaela Shiffrin ski when she was 14 at an Eastern championship for top junior racers culled from nine states. Shiffrin beat everyone (including my daughter) by 11 seconds in a race usually decided by tenths of a second, if not hundredths.
I wandered over to a group of coaches from elite ski racing academies I knew and asked, “Who is this Shiffrin?”
“She’s Mozart,” one answered. The other coaches told me I would be writing about her for the next 20 years.