Mikaela Shiffrin won her seventh career Alpine world championships gold medal on Thursday, after winning the giant slalom in Méribel, France, in the Alps
The American took her overall tally to 13 medals from 16 career world championship races, making her the most successful skier in the modern era. She now sits two medals behind German Christl Cranz’s record 15 medals won in the 1930s, when races were hosted every year instead of biannually as they are now. “That’s unbelievable,” Shiffrin said after the race. “I was so nervous, my God. “Today, I really saw myself losing it. My heart is going crazy, I feel like I am going to faint.
She failed to finish in her first race of the world championships before picking up silver in the super-G and then gold in the giant slalom. Her victory also came a day after her longtime coach Mike Day left her team. Day, who had coached Shiffrin for seven years and 65 of her 85 World Cup wins, decided to leave the team after Shiffrin had informed him that at the end of the season she would be moving on to use different staff.
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