Helene Elliott: Mikaela Shiffrin isn't short on motivation amid push for World Cup titles record
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Oct 27, 2023
3 minutes
Mikaela Shiffrin can't remember exactly where or when she met Annemarie Moser-Proell, the Austrian legend who dominated women's World Cup alpine skiing in the 1970s and won six overall titles, tops among female skiers.
But Shiffrin clearly recalls that Moser-Proell saw in her a greatness Shiffrin wasn't sure she possessed, even as she was evolving from a teenage prodigy to a consistent World Cup medal contender and champion.
"At the time, I wasn't anywhere near a threat to any of the statistics and records and titles that
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