Alpine skiing-Record-holder Shiffrin looks to break new ground in downhill

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NEW YORK : American slalom queen Mikaela Shiffrin is ready to explore her abilities in downhill skiiing after becoming the most successful competitor at the Alpine World Cup, the twice Olympic gold medallist told Reuters. Shiffrin surpassed Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark's record with an 87th World Cup wi

NEW YORK : American slalom queen Mikaela Shiffrin is ready to explore her abilities in downhill skiiing after becoming the most successful competitor at the Alpine World Cup, the twice Olympic gold medallist told Reuters.

"I don't think I could ever switch from slalom to downhill. But I do feel like I want to branch more into exploring what my abilities are in downhill," said Shiffrin. "Probably one of the hardest things to do in the U.S., specifically, is to actually tap into all the talent that exists," said Shiffrin.

"There's all these different variables and it's like, 'Can you help me find a way to put these variables into a database that we can actually read and create a common language for?'"

 

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