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WINTER GAMES
East Oregonian
Saturday, January 20, 2018
With Olympics coming, Shiffrin works because she worries
“Slacking off never got anybody
to win anything.”
By PAT GRAHAM
and HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
Mikaela Shiffrin often fi nds
herself fi xating on two thoughts that
are completely detached from reality.
“I feel every single day, fi rst of all,
like I’ve never won a World Cup in
my life,” the Alpine ski racing star
told The Associated Press. “And
I feel like I’m never going to win
again.”
Really? She is, don’t forget, an
athlete who claimed the fi rst fi ve
events she entered in 2018, a record,
before a third-place showing in a
downhill Friday at Cortina d’Am-
pezzo, Italy. She has won eight of
her past 10 races. This 22-year-old
American, still presumably far closer
to the start of her career than the
end of it, regularly worries about no
longer fi nishing fi rst?
Well, yes.
“Each one of these race results,”
said Mike Day, her lead coach, “just
gets stored away really quickly.”
That, Shiffrin explains, is why she
puts in all of the time and effort to stay
on top. The extra ski runs — double
sessions lasting four to fi ve hours on
each of four consecutive days during
a recent “off week” — and the video
studying — 30 minutes to 1½ hours
a day — and the fi tness training and
everything else.
“Her hard work is harder than
anybody else out there,” Day said.
And that, in turn, is why Shiffrin
has established herself as the best
Alpine ski racer there is at the
moment, someone who is expected
to be one of the faces of the Pyeong-
chang Olympics, which open Feb. 9.
“That’s why my team — my
mom and my coaches and everyone
around me — pushes me to train
hard. They know that slacking off
— Mikaela Shiffrin
AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati
United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates after coming third in an
alpine ski, women’s World Cup downhill, in Cortina D’Ampezzo,
Italy, on Friday.
never got anybody to win anything.
And if I stand still for a second,
everybody else is moving forward,
so they’re going to surpass me,”
said Shiffrin, whose mother, Eileen,
travels the circuit with her, serving as
a coach and sounding board.
“I don’t even feel like I deserve
to have moments of celebration after
races. Because it’s immediately time
to get back to work, when you think
about the big picture. I don’t win a
World Cup and say, ‘OK, I’m good.
I can die now.’ There’s other things I
want to accomplish with my skiing.”
She made that quite plain to the
world at the Sochi Games four years
ago.
The day after becoming, at 18,
the youngest slalom champion in
Olympic history, Shiffrin announced
at a news conference: “Right now,
I’m dreaming of the next Olympics
(and) winning fi ve gold medals,
which sounds really crazy. I’m sorry
I just admitted that to you all.”
How crazy? The record for most
Alpine golds at a single Winter
Games is three, accomplished three
times previously (Toni Sailer of
Austria in 1956, Jean-Claude Killy of
France in 1968, and Janica Kostelic
of Croatia in 2002).
But maybe this will be Shiffrin’s
time.
Even the schedule in South Korea
is, as her coach Day put it, “extremely
favorable for us.”
In a change from 2014, the giant
slalom and slalom — considered the
more technical events, and her two
best — open the women’s racing,
with a three-day gap preceding the
shift to the speed races, beginning
with the super-G and, after another
four-day hiatus, the downhill. Then
comes the combined (one run each
of slalom and downhill).
Shiffrin called entering all fi ve “a
very honest possibility.”
Simply considering that at this
stage of her career is a testament to
what a quick study she is. Nowadays,
Alpine competitors typically tend to
focus either on technical or speed
events, not everything.
Little about Shiffrin is typical,
though. It took her two World Cup
starts to earn a top-three fi nish in a
slalom, just three for her fi rst podium
showing in a downhill. She won the
World Cup overall title last season
and is currently on pace for a second.
She already equaled a record by
earning her 41st World Cup race win
before turning 23; Lindsey Vonn, by
comparison, had seven before that
age.
“I mean, it’s fun to watch her, and
for sure I want to beat her,” said Frida
Hansdotter, who won silver or bronze
for Sweden in the slalom at the past
three world championships, behind
champion Shiffrin each time, “but
right now, she is in another league.”
And to think: Day insists that
Shiffrin “will, for sure, get better than
she is right now.”
That seems hard to fathom.
Until one considers just how
seriously Shiffrin takes her craft.
She is constantly watching video of
her own races and those of others —
including six-time men’s World Cup
overall champion Marcel Hirscher,
who says he studies her, too — to
see where there might be a tiny detail
that can shave off a bit of time here
or there.
Part of that comes from within, to
be sure.
Part of it comes from the way
her parents taught her about what it
means to have fun.
“‘Fun’ for us is a matter of doing
things in a manner that actually make
it where you’re good enough at it that
it’s enjoyable,” said Shiffrin’s father,
Jeff. “You can’t go out and just ‘have
fun.’ Fun is something that comes
from a skill level, whether it’s music or
language or piano or public speaking
or being a professional, being a writer.
If you’re terrible at it, it’s not fun.”
IOC creates pool of Russians eligible for Winter Olympics
Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzer-
land — The International
Olympic Committee said
Friday it has created a pool
of 389 Russians who are
eligible to compete under a
neutral fl ag at next month’s
Winter Olympics amid the
country’s doping scandal.
An IOC panel whittled
down an initial list of 500
to create what the IOC calls
“a pool of clean athletes.”
That could potentially make
it possible for Russia to meet
its target of fi elding around
200 athletes in Pyeongchang
— slightly fewer than in
Sochi in 2014, but more than
in Vancouver in 2010.
It wasn’t immediately
clear why 111 other Russians
were rejected by the IOC.
The IOC didn’t list the
athletes who were accepted
or rejected, but said it hadn’t
included any of the 46 the
IOC previously banned for
doping at the 2014 Olympics
in Sochi.
Valerie
Fourneyron,
the former French Sports
Minister leading the invita-
tion process, said the pool
also left out any Russians
who had been suspended in
the past for doping offenses.
“This means that a number
of Russian athletes will not
be on the list,” she said. “Our
work was not about numbers,
but to ensure that only clean
athletes would be on the list.”
That would appear to
rule out potential Russian
medal contenders like former
NHL hockey player Anton
Belov and world champion
speedskater Pavel Kulizh-
nikov, both of whom served
bans in the past but have
since resumed competing.
“More than 80 per cent of
the athletes in this pool did
not compete at the Olympic
Winter Games Sochi 2014,”
the IOC said in a statement.
“This shows that this is a
new generation of Russian
athletes.”
The IOC will use the
pool list to issue invitations
to Russian athletes to
compete in Pyeongchang,
after checking their record
of drug testing and retesting
some samples they gave
previously.
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