{"id":2454770,"date":"2020-02-19T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/mikaela-shiffrin-graces-sports-illustrated-cover\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T03:48:00","slug":"mikaela-shiffrin-graces-sports-illustrateds-march-cover-a-rarity-for-skier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/mikaela-shiffrin-graces-sports-illustrateds-march-cover-a-rarity-for-skier\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin graces Sports Illustrated\u2019s March cover, a rarity for skier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, that’s a darn familiar face on the cover of March’s issue of Sports Illustrated.<\/strong>
Spcial to the Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

VAIL \u2014 Extra, extra, read all about it.<\/p>\n

Mikaela Shiffrin is on the cover of Sports Illustrated\u2019s March issue and she\u2019s dubbed \u201cthe world\u2019s most dominant athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n

For readers of Sports Illustrated who do not live in a ski community, it may be controversial to call Shiffrin \u201cthe world\u2019s most dominant athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The average American sports fan might be more inclined to focus on the likes of LeBron James, Tom Brady or Mike Trout.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Shiffrin\u2019s been on the cover of Sports Illustrated. She was the cover girl for the 2014 Olympics preview as well as after winning slalom in those games in Sochi.<\/p>\n

She is, however, the first Olympic athlete, according to a press release from the U.S. Ski Team, to be on the cover in a non-Olympic year in recent years. The shoot for the Sports Illustrated cover took place Feb. 1 in Trentino, Italy, after Shiffrin won two World Cup speed races at the end of January in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the shoot, Mikaela got word that her father, Jeff, passed away suddenly, making this a poignant time for publication.<\/p>\n

Greg Bishop, the author of the Sports Illustrated piece, wrote, \u201cNone of (her fame and success) mattered when the call came, when Shiffrin, only 24, learned that her father, Jeff, had suffered a grave injury in an accident at home in Colorado. Mikaela and her mother, Eileen, immediately flew back from Europe and were able to spend Jeff\u2019s final hours by his side.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article profiles the well-known story of Shiffrin growing up and her parents, Jeff and Eileen, trying to instill a sense of normalcy in her life; her first World Cup podium, her Olympic wins and the spectacular success of her 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n

The piece then transitions into how Shiffrin was trying to deal with this season and the accompanying unrealistic expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis season\u2019s been a bit of a struggle again. If that\u2019s where the bar is now, it\u2019s nearly impossible to even come close to that, let alone exceed it,\u201d Shiffrin is quoted as saying by Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n

Through telling her surreal experience of being at last summer\u2019s ESPYs and not feeling like she belonged in such star-studded company \u2014 she knew she wasn\u2019t going to win Best Female Athlete and didn\u2019t bother writing a speech and apparently her hands were shaking when she met the NBA\u2019s James \u2014 Bishop writes about the constant struggle in Shiffrin\u2019s life between being a normal person and the fame that is a part of her life, whether she wants it or not.<\/p>\n

The issue should be on newsstands soon.<\/p>\n

cfreud@vaildaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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