{"id":35873,"date":"2017-03-21T20:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=35873"},"modified":"2017-03-21T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:10:55","slug":"the-us-ski-teams-mikaela-shiffrin-wins-world-cup-overall-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=35873","title":{"rendered":"The US Ski Team&#8217;s Mikaela Shiffrin Wins World Cup Overall Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen, CO&#8230;Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, CO) wrapped up a stellar season by lifting the overall World Cup crystal globe over her head in front of a roaring home state crowd.  At Sunday\u2019s FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals giant slalom in Aspen, CO, Italian Federica Brignone proved too fast for any of the racers to catch, after taking almost a full second lead first run and building on it second run. Brignone led an Italian sweep, with her teammates Sofia Goggia in second and Marta Bassino third. Shiffrin finished sixth. \u201cI\u2019m not very satisfied,\u201d said Shiffrin. I felt like I had some really good turns, but I didn\u2019t take enough aggression when I really needed it. It\u2019s a bit of a bummer, but it\u2019s good motivation for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alpine.usskiteam.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/communications\/2014-15\/images\/CODY9212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Mikaela Shiffrin races the World Cup Finals giant slalom at Aspen. (U.S. Ski Team-Cody Downard<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin was able to celebrate her season-long accomplishment on Sunday, when she was given the overall crystal globe, signifying her best in the world status throughout the 2016-17 season. But she\u2019s not satisfied yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been something I\u2019ve dreamed about,\u201d said Shiffrin, who turned 22 while in Aspen. \u201cIt still doesn\u2019t feel real, though. It\u2019s like you\u2019re constantly chasing this dream and as soon as you get it, you realize it\u2019s still so far away. I\u2019m so motivated to get better and I think that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alpine.usskiteam.com\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/communications\/2014-15\/images\/GettyImages-655289818.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Shiffrin stands with her overall crystal globe, flanked by Ilka Stuhec in second and Sofia Goggia in third. (Getty Images\/Agence Zoom-Alexis <\/em><em>Boichard<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin joins an elite club of American skiers that have won the overall crystal globe, including Tamara McKinney (Squaw Valley, CA), Phil Mahre (Yakima, WA), Bode Miller (Franconia, NH) and Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO).<\/p>\n<p>The men raced slalom Sunday with Andrew Myhrer of Sweden taking first, Felix Neureuther of Germany second and Michael Matt of Austria third. Marcel Hirscher of Austria was crowned overall World Cup champion for the sixth year in a row, a title he clinched weeks prior to Aspen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5102072639001\/SkRDllpYe_default\/index.html?videoId=5365227800001' allowfullscreen frameborder=0><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The World Cup Finals wrapped the season, but the Americans still have the U.S. Alpine Championships taking place March 25-28 at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mikaela Shiffrin won the overall World Cup crystal globe.<\/li>\n<li>On Saturday, Shiffrin brought home the slalom globe for the fourth time in five years.<\/li>\n<li>Shiffrin finished sixth in the World Cup Finals giant slalom.<\/li>\n<li>Tessa Worley won the giant slalom crystal globe for the women, the first GS globe for a French woman since 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Marcel Hirscher of Austria won the giant slalom and overall crystal globe for the men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>QUOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikaela Shiffrin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(On the World Cup Finals GS)<\/em><br \/>\nI\u2019m not very satisfied. I felt like I had some really good turns, but I didn\u2019t take enough aggression when I really needed it. It\u2019s a bit of a bummer, but it\u2019s good motivation for next year.<\/p>\n<p><em>(On the 2016-17 season)<\/em><br \/>\nOverall, it\u2019s been incredible. It\u2019s sort of sad that it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s physically grueling\u2014it\u2019s 60 seconds as hard as you can go. On most training days, we\u2019re doing 12 of those runs. It\u2019s a full-on workout. It\u2019s pretty incredible to know that we can actually do that\u2014how far you can actually push your limits and push your body right at the end of the year. It\u2019s tiring physically and mentally. There are so many emotional rollercoasters that you just want to take a nap for three days straight.<\/p>\n<p>It has been something I\u2019ve dreamed about. It still doesn\u2019t feel real, though. It\u2019s like you\u2019re constantly chasing this dream and as soon as you get it, you realize it\u2019s still so far away. I\u2019m so motivated to get better and I think that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really proud of the team around me: my coaches, my mom, all the people who have really been there this entire time, supported me the entire time. They\u2019ve been in my dark moments and the bright moments too. There\u2019s a big group of people that support me\u2014sponsors and everybody, but there\u2019s a small group of people who are with me every second and know me the best. I\u2019m very thankful for them.<\/p>\n<p><em>(On what\u2019s next)<\/em><br \/>\nMy goal right now is to race in speed at the Olympics, and a little more speed next year. But it\u2019s really challenging. I raced a few super G racers this year and two downhills and even that was very tiring. I still focused on my main events, but as I get older and more confident and stronger, then I can add more speed.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about next year at the beginning of this year. There\u2019s always things to think about and there\u2019s so much planning going into next season, especially with the Olympics. We\u2019re planning summer ski plans and conditioning training and the season and how we\u2019re going to manage traveling\u2014there\u2019s a lot that goes into it. I\u2019m already thinking about it\u2014I have been for a while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/medias1.fis-ski.com\/pdf\/2017\/AL\/0246\/2017AL0246.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Men\u2019s slalom<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/medias2.fis-ski.com\/pdf\/2017\/AL\/5236\/2017AL5236RLR2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Women\u2019s giant slalom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source US Ski Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aspen, CO&#8230;Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, CO) wrapped up a stellar season by lifting the overall World Cup crystal globe over her head in front of a roaring home state crowd. At Sunday\u2019s FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Finals giant slalom in Aspen, CO, Italian Federica Brignone proved too fast for any of the racers to catch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-sports","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/GettyImages-655289818.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}