JT653 t1_jbps9ra wrote on March 10, 2023 at 7:56 PM

Reply to comment by Markiemark1956 in Mikaela Shiffrin gets her record 86th World Cup victory by Jokobib

A big part of this is she has under performed at the Olympics. Winter sport athletes become household names from the Olympics. While she will be older, hopefully she can have one more shot and reverse her Olympics curse which would do so much for her profile.

NearPup t1_jbpvak4 wrote on March 10, 2023 at 8:16 PM

Which is kind of crazy because "only" winning two Olympic gold medals as an alpine skier is already a lot. Four is the most anyone has ever won, and she's eighth on the all time list for women (with probably at least two more Olympics left in her). Ingemar Stenmark also "only" has two and many of the all time greats have none.