Shiffrin vs Vonn: Different strengths but similar approach

Published January 8, 2023 8:48 AM

By ANDREW DAMPF
AP Sports Writer

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is the perfect technical skier. Lindsey Vonn was the ultimate speed demon. Shiffrin is rarely slowed by physical ailments. Vonn was constantly hurtling herself into the safety nets and breaking bones. Shiffrin is introverted and sometimes doesn’t even display a fist pump when she wins. Vonn is outgoing and relished celebrating her many victories. The Americans who now share the record of 82 World Cup wins couldn’t be more different in many ways. But they are remarkably similar in others. Both excelled in every discipline of Alpine skiing over various points of their careers and both spent parts of their childhoods in Colorado.

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