GOAT Skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s Mental Transformation

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month and it’s a major topic in sports right now, as more elite athletes share personal struggles. Olympic skier Mikaela Shiffrin is one of the greatest of all time, hurtling down the slopes at breakneck speed. But in Beijing this year she stopped just seconds into a race where she was expected to take gold. Alyssa Roenigk talked to Shiffrin about this moment in Beijing, and how she’s taken a new approach to speaking her mind, public scrutiny and processing family grief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:06.9	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.8	It's supercuts.
0:09.8	Alyssa Roneck, we last saw Michaela Schifferen when she was at the center of the Beijing
0:17.9	Olympics in February.
0:19.2	She was projected to get more gold medals than any American skier ever.
0:25.8	And that infamously, of course, did not happen.
0:29.2	So I just want you to take us to the top of the mountain here, to the Alpine skiing
0:33.1	course in Beijing, where one of the best skiers we've ever seen was just sitting there,
0:39.5	silent.
0:40.5	What was going on in Michaela Schifferen's head?
0:43.5	She was trying to figure out how to disappear.
0:47.1	This was now two races into the Beijing Olympics.
0:50.2	She was, as you said, expected to win.
0:53.0	This was the slalom.
0:54.0	This is an event she is incredibly accomplished at.
0:58.1	And she had skied out for the second time in three days, meaning she mistigated skied
1:02.8	off the course.
1:03.8	And we're talking five seconds into the course.
1:07.3	And that means she's effectively DNFed.
1:09.6	She's out of the race.
1:11.4	And she needed a moment.
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