Mikaela Shiffrin isn’t the only Vail local bringing home gold medals from Europe this month.
River Radamus, the 21-year-old skier from Edwards, claimed the title of World Juniors Super-G Champion Thursday morning in Val di Fassa, Italy.
In a press conference shortly after the race, fellow teammate Mikaela Shiffrin offered her congratulations and reminisced on her own experience on the junior podium.
“World juniors is a really important milestone. I remember racing world juniors; that was the reason I was able to get my first World Cup start,” Shiffrin said. “It’s a huge step in their careers and a telling sign that having success at world juniors often leads to being able to have success in the world cup.”
Shiffrin also noted that “seeing River winning the World Juniors Super-G is awesome because I think everybody sees him as a real up and comer, a threat on the World Cup circuit in the future.”
As for the future, that’s what Shiffrin says the world juniors is all about.
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“I think one of the big goals for the ski team is developing the next generation so that we have depth on our team and that there’s more than one person holding that torch. That’s been a really big focus and I think River’s success at world juniors is a sign that it is working and we just have to stay on course,” Shiffrin said.
BEHOLD:
Your 2019 @valdifassa2019 World Juniors Super-G Champion: RIVER RADAMUS‼️ YES!?? #valdifassa19 pic.twitter.com/J1FLdFDLrN— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) February 21, 2019
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