Aleksander Aamodt Kilde

Interview with Mikaela Shiffrin: ‘You can’t fight a mountain and expect to win’

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Shiffrin aims for 100 World Cup wins – Getty Images/Ezra Shaw There’s a perverse irony in the fact that three days after I spoke with Mikaela Shiffrin about her career, her goals and, of course, the current plethora of high-profile crashes in elite skiing, she herself takes a nasty fall on a downhill. in Cortina … Read more

‘When the best skiers crash, you wonder’ – why the rise in skiing accidents?

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Aleksander Aamodt Kilde with partner and fellow skier Mikaela Shiffrin as she recovers from a crash at host pit When Mikaela Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup ski racer of all time, crashed into the safety fence at high speed during a downhill run in Cortina d’Ampezzo last week, US Army fans weren’t the only … Read more