Mikaela Shiffrin

Just Women's Sports

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Record-breaking ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin sits down with Kelley to talk about her historic rise to the top of her sport, the influence of her family on her life and career, why she prefers training to competing, how she recovered from a near-crash to take home gold at the 2014 Olympics, what made the 2018 Olympics complicated, and what she’s learned about herself in the wake of her father’s passing. Go deeper. Together With: BEAST, personal care products for BEASTS of all kinds. Get 20% OFF with code: JWS Ohza, mimosas are now #notjustforbrunch. Get 10% OFF with code: JWS Sports Save You Money.

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0:00.0	That's where I started to think about this idea of difference between expectations and standards,
0:07.0	and like keeping my standards of my skiing and my plan really, really high,
0:12.0	but not ever having any expectations for what was going to happen.
0:16.0	And that whole season, it was like one thing after the other, and somehow that mentality was like, it was so freeing.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Just Women Sports Podcast,
0:30.0	where we talked to the biggest athletes in the world
0:32.0	about the untold stories behind their success.
0:34.5	I'm Kelly O'Harea, and my guest today
0:36.3	is Michaela Shift Friend.
0:37.8	Michaela is one of the most dominant athletes in the world today.
0:41.4	A three-time overall World Cup champion Alpine skier,
0:44.0	Michaela has won two Olympic gold and an Olympic silver. She has 66 World Cup wins and in
0:49.8	2019 she put on one of the greatest individual seasons of all time, winning a record 17
0:54.8	World Cup races while becoming the first year to ever win the overall Super G, Giant
1:00.0	Solemn and solemn World Cup titles all in a single year.
1:03.0	That's about as close to perfection as you'll see in sports.
1:09.0	Michaela, welcome to the show.
1:11.0	Thank you.
1:12.0	Thanks for getting on. How are you doing?
1:14.7	I'm doing all right. Just living life, right? For sure, for sure. Where are we finding you today? I'm at home in Colorado. I'm actually about to travel to Mount
1:28.9	Hood, Oregon for ski camp. Cool, ski camp. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Mount Hood is kind of a place where most American kids who want to be ski racers or who are ski racers, like almost all of us have gone there at some point.
1:44.8	It's a snow field on a volcano. We're skiing on a volcano.
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