Mikaela Shiffrin He achieved his historic rainy World Cup win on Sunday in Sestrier, Italy, and strengthened its position as the best alpine skier of all time.
Mikaela Shiffrin was in slalom as as many as 61 hundredths faster than second reached Croatian Zrika ljith.
The second highest number of World Cup wins – 86 – is Swedish Ingemar Stenmark.
On Sunday, Shiffrin rose to share a record of 155 in the men’s and women’s ever World Cup top-3 investments, awards of the podiums alongside Stenmark.
The 29-year-old US has eight world championships and two Olympic winnings.
In the historical victory of Shiffrin, the Finnish hat also gets a Finn Janne Haaralawhich has influenced the making of sport since last spring.
On Sunday, Haarala was a big part of the fact that he marked the 2 -round track where Shiffrin was downright overwhelming.
– As the results say, this (victory) did not come easily and has been able to work here, says Haarala and refers to Friday and Saturday’s Shiffrin Grand Slalom results, which brought the 26th space and interruption.
The Finn says frankly that he did not expect a slalom victory on Sunday, even though there were some references during the week.
Haarala sees that exercises are just exercises and in competitions the setting is always different.
– When it comes to the World Cup and the absolute peak, it is a lot of ears.
– After that (bad) Grand Slalom Race, what happened today was absolutely incredible. Yes, I also had the feeling unleashed. I think some coach colleague say that now the Haarala has popped, the Finn laughs.
Haarala believes that the victory was also a surprise to Shiffrin.
– After the race, the mind and feeling were sensitive to both, Haarala admitted.
Shiffrin dug up the race intensity
Shiffrin’s slalom victory in Sestrier is all the more significant, taking into account the setback in late November, where the skier wand pierced his stomach.
A 2.5-month sick leave came to a top athlete in the worst possible position, in the middle.
– A challenging time when the sport is played with small margins and the lack of race intensity is a big part of our sport. However, somewhere Mikaela dug it today.
-We were still semi-fit in the Austrian Saalbach World Championships, but despite this, we received a world championship gold in the team competition, Haarala rejoices.
Shiffrin won the US team gold together Breezy Johnson with.
– You have to raise your hat for the athlete. A reasonable wrinkle here has been the last three weeks. After the World Championships last Monday, the exercises continued and some of it was reached again.
“Shiffrin is hard -headed, mentally strong and able to cross himself, but here he has learned that even though he is talking about the best in the world, he is a human being,” emphasizes Finnish coach.
Haarala points out that coaching is teamwork.
Shiffrin’s small and important core group consists of another species coach, Norwegian Kari’s briefphysiotherapist Regan Dewhirst as well as Mikaela’s hard -working, video analysis loving Eileen’s mother.
“I probably have a big role in creating conditions and doing exercises,” says Haarala.
Ear spacing and exceptional species technology
Which factors make Shiffrin the best alpine skier in the world?
– Differences often come between the ears. Mikaela’s extraordinary species technology and understanding of the species also make him an superior alpine skier. He is a great coach and is not afraid to take the challenges. In practice, he always implements agreed matters determined.
Something about Janne Haarala’s skills and expertise is that she was originally asked to coach the world’s best alpine skier.
Prior to his current action, Haarala was the head coach of the Finnish Alpine Skiing Team and worked for six years as head coach of the Norwegian women’s national team technology.
The positive and modest Finnish factor has a two-year contract behind Shiffrin, which ends with the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
– They should be asked why I was asked to join. Apparently it was influenced by my previous work, which I did with the Norwegians.
– But the biggest thing is probably my personality. As a Finn, I print pretty much straight ahead, whether good or bad. I don’t get things left in the barrel, laughs Haarala.