Shiffrin ends World Cup ski season with yet another record

SOLDEU, Andorra (AP) — After capping her record-setting season with career win 88, Mikaela Shiffrin was asked one question over and over again – and she couldn't really answer it. What's next? “What do you think will come next? How many victories?,” Johan...

Mikaela Shiffrin gets new head coach in female pioneer Harjo

SOLDEU, Andorra (AP) — Two days after becoming the most successful World Cup skier in history, Mikaela Shiffrin marked her 28th birthday with the appointment of a new personal head coach on Monday in the hopes of getting “a fresh and new way of thinking” moving forward. The...

Mikaela Shiffrin brings aboard Karin Harjo as head coach

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Fresh off breaking the record for most World Cup race wins, Mikaela Shiffrin has a new head coach, Karin Harjo, who has been leading Canada’s Alpine skiing team. U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced Harjo’s hiring on Monday and said she will join Shiffrin...

‘Not done yet:' Skier Shiffrin continues quest for records

Does getting a record 87th World Cup win make Mikaela Shiffrin the greatest ski racer of all time? Shiffrin doesn’t think so, despite congratulations pouring in from the likes of tennis stars Roger Federer and Iga Swiatek, actress Kate Winslet, and fellow skiing standouts Lindsey...

Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup skiing record with 87th win

ARE, Sweden (AP) — Two minutes after earning her 87th career win, Mikaela Shiffrin finally understood the significance of setting the record for most World Cup victories. In the middle of the awards ceremony, a man in a red jacket unexpectedly stepped forward from the crowd and...

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin sets World Cup record with 87th career win, surpassing Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark

Mikaela Shiffrin's journey to the summit of Alpine skiing

GENEVA (AP) — From a prodigiously talented 15-year-old to the most decorated female skier of all-time, Mikaela Shiffrin has done quite a lot in only 12 years. The American skier won her record-tying 86th victory Friday in her 245th race on the World Cup circuit, the globe-trotting...

Mikaela Shiffrin gets her record 86th World Cup victory

ARE, Sweden (AP) — Moments after winning her record-tying 86th World Cup race, Mikaela Shiffrin was asked by a Swedish broadcaster to directly address Ingemar Stenmark, the skiing standout who had promised to watch at home on television. From one great to another, the 27-year-old...

AP Interview: Stenmark says Shiffrin 'better than I was'

To Ingemar Stenmark, all this fuss over Mikaela Shiffrin as she approached his record of 86 World Cup skiing victories was beside the point. Because the 66-year-old Swede believes the American is already on another level. “She’s much better than I was. You cannot...

Shiffrin and Stenmark took different paths to skiing record

Ingemar Stenmark's unbreakable skiing record just got matched by Mikaela Shiffrin. The American won a giant slalom on Friday to equal the Swedish great's record of 86 World Cup victories, which he set more than three decades ago. When Stenmark retired from World Cup...