Following alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s historic 2018-19 season, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will commemorate her record-breaking campaign by re-airing 20 races: Shiffrin’s 17 World Cup wins, plus her three medal-winning performances at the 2019 World Championships in Are, Sweden. Olympic Channel’s 25 hours of primetime programming begins on Monday, April 8 at 7:30pm (ET), and continues through Friday, April 12.
Over the course of the 2018-19 season, Shiffrin accomplished the following feats:
- Won 17 World Cup races (the most ever in a single season)
- Claimed her fourth straight slalom world title, making her the first alpine skier to win four consecutive world championship titles in the same discipline
- Became the first skier to win World Cup titles in the overall, giant slalom, super-G and slalom disciplines in the same year
- Became the 12th skier (and 7th woman) to win a World Cup race in all five major disciplines (giant slalom, slalom, super-G, downhill and super combined)
- Became the youngest skier to reach 50 World Cup wins
- Broke the women’s World Cup slalom wins record
- Ended the season with 60 career World Cup wins, which is 5th-most all time and 3rd-most by a woman
All coverage on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will be streamed on NBCSports.