By Shauna Farnell Mikaela Shiffrin has proven she can dominate in every discipline of ski racing, but as has been the case with all the accomplishments of her young career, she’s not getting a big head about it.
While everyone around her is talking about how she’s the only skier in history to win a World Cup race in all six existing disciplines (slalom, giant slalom, downhill, combined, parallel slalom and after her victory in Lake Louise, Alberta, earier this month, super-G), she is quick to point out the practicality of the newly broken record.
“It’s an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as some of the all-time greatest skiers — that’s very flattering. But in some ways I don’t think it’s comparable,” Shiffrin said on a conference call from Switzerland on Wednesday, before she won the ensuing weekend’s super-G and paralell slalom events in St. Moritz, Switzerland. “Me being able to be the only winner in all events comes with the asterisk that the city event wasn’t even an event when a lot of these guys were setting their records.”
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Via:: Summit Daily